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== External links == * [http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/ LEO Computers Society]. Includes ''[http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/52267/LEOPEDIA/ LEOPEDIA]'' which is intended to be a comprehensive reference to archive, museum and media holdings and references to LEO computers, and individuals associated with them, updated periodically by [[Frank Land]]. * [http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/LEO-Computer-Tapes LEO Magnetic Data Tape Collection at The ICL Computer Museum] * [http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/icl3a LEO Artefacts at The ICL Computer Museum] * [http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/LEO-Paperwork LEO Paperwork at The ICL Computer Museum] * [http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/54762/LEO-Artefacts-Collection/ LEO Artefacts at the Centre for Computing History] * [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-nahc/leo LEO Computers Collection], National Archive for the History of Computing, [[University of Manchester Library]]. * [https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-50559357/how-a-cake-company-pioneered-the-first-office-computer How a cake company pioneered the first office computer] BBC video interview with [[Mary Coombs]], who worked on the first LEO computer and was the first woman to become a commercial computer programmer * [http://purl.umn.edu/107600 Oral history interview with John M. M. Pinkerton], [[Charles Babbage Institute]], University of Minnesota. Pinkerton describes his work on LEO computers. In this context he discusses the British computer firms [[J. Lyons and Company]], [[English Electric]], and [[International Computers Ltd.]] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120210022739/http://is2.lse.ac.uk/leo/ About LEO] β From ''Business Computing: the Second 50 Years'', The Guildhall conference for business leaders, London, 2001. Archived in February 2012. * [http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/leo.htm J. Lyons & Co. LEO Computers]. Extract from Peter Bird's ''LEO β The First Business Computer'' (2002); at David Lawrence's Lyons website * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml BBC Science: Electronic Brains] BBC Radio 4 series about early computers, 2002; programme 1 is about LEO * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3ftg ''Hidden Histories of the Information Age''] BBC Radio 4 series, 2016; programme about LEO * [https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/leo/digitised "Developing LEO: The world's first business computer", documents from the papers of John Simmons, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick] * {{cite journal |last1=Pinkerton |first1=J. M. M. |title=The Evolution of Design in a series of Computers, LEO I-III |journal=[[The Computer Journal]] |date=1 January 1961 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=42β46 |doi=10.1093/comjnl/4.1.42 |issn=0010-4620|doi-access=free }} * {{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2188963/David-Caminer.html | title=David Caminer obituary | newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] | date=24 June 2008 }} * {{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzu68nRVwtE | title=LEO: the story of the world's first business computer | work=[[YouTube]] | publisher=[[The Centre for Computing History]] | date=30 November 2021 }} {{ICL hardware}} [[Category:Early British computers]] [[Category:ICL mainframe computers]] [[Category:Vacuum tube computers]] [[Category:Computer-related introductions in 1951]] [[Category:History of software]] [[Category:Outsourcing]] [[Category:Supply chain management]] [[Category:University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory]] [[Category:Serial computers]]
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