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World’s first biz computer was British – and sold teacakes

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Tea merchants, bakers and Wimpy burger founder J Lyons and Co instituted the enormous programmable computer – LEO – in its Hammersmith office to help with deliveries of perishables including cakes way back in 1951. Today is LEO’s 60th anniversary.

You can read about LEO’s driving force, David Caminer, in one of Reg Hardware’s Unsung Heroes of Tech articles.

via The Register

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