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A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer

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A Computer Called Leo: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer - Ferry, Georgina
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This is the eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world's first office computer and the Lyons Teashop. The Lyons teashops were one of the great British institutions, providing a cup of tea and a penny bun through the depression, the war, austerity and on into the 1960s and 1970s. Yet Lyons also has a more surprising claim to history. In the 1930s John Simmons, a young graduate in charge of the clerks' offices that totalled all the bills issued by the ...

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A Computer Called Leo: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer 2003, 4th Estate, Limited, London, England

ISBN-13: 9781841151854

Hardcover