The UK computer industry may play second fiddle to the US, but backin the 1950s it led the way. Richard Sarson charts the rise of the firstbusiness computer
Amazing though it is, the world's first business computer was developed in the UK. Called LEO, it went live in 1951. It was unlike the other machines of its era, because LEO was not developed by an...
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