How a British teashop helped create the first office computer I The Information Age Episode 4
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This is the story of the first office computer and its unlikely owners, J. Lyons and Co, a company better known for making cakes. Discover how computers became part of office life in our new Information Age gallery www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/infor....
The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO I) went into operation in 1951, transforming the working lives of employees and kick-starting the development of the British computer industry.
This state-of-the art 1950s computer was small enough to fit on a single floor of Lyons head office, and held a full 2 KB of information (about a side of A4). Not much by 21st century standards, but in 1951 it was more than in any other business in the world.
Part of the LEO I is on display in our Information Age gallery, which tells the story of how our lives have been transformed by information and communication technologies over the last 200 years. Visit www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/infor... or follow the conversation online via #smInfoAge to find out more.
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When I worked in their head office in the UK, in the early 70s, some parts were on display outside the staff restaurant!
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@DouglasAnderson
9 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@JuliePGUK
9 жыл бұрын
never knew about leo before thats brilliant
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fascinating
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@rubusroo68
9 жыл бұрын
Yes. You posted this about a month ago. Yawn.
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@rubusroo68
9 жыл бұрын
so patronising. this is for 13 year olds I take it.
@DavidGoldsmith
9 жыл бұрын
No, it's entertaining and informative in my opinion.
@johnskelad8602
9 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed it. But then I am a bit of a nerd...
Basically, there came a point when Lyons had to make a decision about what business they were in. Was it computers or cakes ? If it was computers, they would have to keep pouring more and more money in development costs into Leo Computers. The whole scenario at the time in the UK was that the new government was keen to consolidate the various UK computer companies into one larger whole to take on the likes of IBM. And that's how it turned out.
🤔 ... I think Bond popped in for a tea and biscuits. Perhaps a front for MI6?
From Leo Automatic Office to Microsoft Office
This is more like the history of the information age as it relates specifically to Britain. How about the Atanasoff-Berry, the first electronic computer, invented by two Americans in Iowa? The first personal or portable computers? all bigger milestones.
@VicNorth2023
8 жыл бұрын
+tcchannel1 Wasn't programmable but if you want to go that route then Babbage trumps them and a good bit earlier.
@VicNorth2023
8 жыл бұрын
+tcchannel1 You need to understand that the video subject matter is "the first business" computer. Seems as though you don't like it because it wasn't American. While Big Blue would like everyone to think they invented the first commercial computer it is not the case. For milestones you talk of check out Tim Berners-Lee (British) inventor of the World Wide Web. As for Atanasoff-Berry their machine wasn't Turing- complete ...
@tcchannel1
8 жыл бұрын
Russ Bartlett It is true that the ABC computer was not fully programmable, but a computer does not have to be fully programmable to be a computer. The first fully programmable computer that was all electronic was the ENIAC computer which came quite a while later. Berners-Lee did invent the web, which is a wonderful invention, but he was really just marrying hyper text with the Internet, two technologies which already existed. All of these technologies build off of what came before of course, but there wouldn't be a world wide web without the Internet, which began its life in the US as ARPANET.
@VicNorth2023
8 жыл бұрын
+tcchannel1 Who are you and what is your background?
@tcchannel1
8 жыл бұрын
Russ Bartlett I am tcchannel1. I don't want you to get me wrong here; I fully agree that Berners-Lee's WWW is one of the best inventions of the previous century, and the Internet would be a lot less user friendly and robust without it. Even Paul Baron couldn't have done his work without the mathematical principles of Kleinrock and others before him. All of these technologies build off of what came before. As for my background, my work and education is in Information Technology, but I certainly no computer scientist. I just enjoy reading about the history and progression of technology.