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ken...@cix.compulink.co.uk
May 15, 2012, 7:25:58 PM5/15/12
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Well the first business computer is over 60 years old. The interesting
bit is which company built it and held a lead in business computing for
about 10 years. Hint it was not an electronics company.
Ken Young
bit is which company built it and held a lead in business computing for
about 10 years. Hint it was not an electronics company.
Ken Young
Don McKenzie
May 15, 2012, 9:07:35 PM5/15/12
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lyons_and_Co.
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Stephen Wolstenholme
May 16, 2012, 4:49:59 AM5/16/12
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of the coffee power...
Steve
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Nick Spalding
May 16, 2012, 5:32:49 AM5/16/12
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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote, in
<obq6r7lt7001fg208...@4ax.com>
on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:49:59 +0100:
>On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:25:58 -0500, ken...@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Well the first business computer is over 60 years old. The interesting
>>bit is which company built it and held a lead in business computing for
>>about 10 years. Hint it was not an electronics company.
>>
>> Ken Young
>
>I worked on LEO computers for a while and can still remember the smell
>of the coffee power...
The only thing I remember about LEO was that in 1955 parts of it were
being built by Camper & Nicholson, yacht builders, of Gosport.
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Nick Spalding
<obq6r7lt7001fg208...@4ax.com>
on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:49:59 +0100:
>On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:25:58 -0500, ken...@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Well the first business computer is over 60 years old. The interesting
>>bit is which company built it and held a lead in business computing for
>>about 10 years. Hint it was not an electronics company.
>>
>> Ken Young
>
>I worked on LEO computers for a while and can still remember the smell
>of the coffee power...
being built by Camper & Nicholson, yacht builders, of Gosport.
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Nick Spalding
Olafur Gunnlaugsson
May 20, 2012, 7:51:27 AM5/20/12
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�ann 16/05/2012 00:25, skrifa�i ken...@cix.compulink.co.uk:
Zuse delivered small business computers to the German optical industry
before 1951
before 1951
Andy Champ
May 20, 2012, 5:44:45 PM5/20/12
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On 20/05/2012 12:51, Olafur Gunnlaugsson wrote:
> Zuse delivered small business computers to the German optical industry
> before 1951
Reference?
> Zuse delivered small business computers to the German optical industry
> before 1951
I see a claim that the (prototype) Z4 was the first _commercial_
computer, narrowly beating the Ferranti Mk1 (which had sales brochures)
a few months later.
In any case, LEO was a _business_ computer, intended for solving office
problems; it was the first of these. The Z4 and Mk1 were _scientific_
computers.
Andy
hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com
May 20, 2012, 10:05:35 PM5/20/12
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