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Contributors | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface to the American Edition | ||
Preface | ||
Chronology | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | The Story of an Innovation | 5 |
1 | The World's First Office Computer Job - 1951 | 7 |
2 | The Background at Lyons - 1894-1947 | 9 |
3 | LEO: Idea and Realization - 1947-1951 | 16 |
4 | Loading LEO I - 1951-1954 | 33 |
5 | The Second LEO and LEO Computers Ltd. - 1954-1957 | 43 |
6 | LEO II in the Field - 1957-1958 | 59 |
7 | End of the First Generation - 1958-1960 | 73 |
8 | Arrival of LEO III - 1960-1963 | 86 |
9 | The Merger with English Electric - 1963 | 97 |
10 | The Range Revolution - 1964 | 110 |
11 | The 1965 Paradox - 1965 | 123 |
12 | LEO Winds Down - 1966-1968 | 130 |
13 | Postlude | 141 |
Pt. 2 | Pioneers | 155 |
14 | The Early Days | 157 |
15 | The Widening Field | 168 |
16 | Toward System Software | 185 |
17 | A Reminiscence | 207 |
Pt. 3 | Innovators | 221 |
18 | Lyons Teashops | 223 |
19 | Glyn Mills Bank and Army and Air Force Officers Payroll | 229 |
20 | Stewarts and Lloyds Steelworks | 243 |
21 | The General Post Office (I) | 249 |
22 | The General Post Office (II) | 257 |
23 | Freemans Mail Order | 261 |
24 | The Royal Dockyards | 274 |
Pt. 4 | Innovating Abroad and an Evaluation | 287 |
25 | Into South Africa | 289 |
26 | Behind the Iron Curtain | 306 |
27 | The LEO Approach - An Evaluation | 321 |
App. A | Extracts from the Report of T. R. Thompson and O. W. Standingford on their visit to the United States: May/June 1947 | 337 |
App. B | Interview between J. R. M. Simmons, Director and Chief Comptroller of J. Lyons & Co. and the Science Museum, London, circa 1970s | 360 |
App. C | Demonstration Script (1955) for the Teashops Distribution Job (L2) | 375 |
Index | 385 |
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