This is the story of the first office computer and its unlikely owners, J. Lyons and Co, a company better known for making cakes. Discover how computers became part of office life in our new
Information Age gallery, opening 25 October 2014
The Lyons Electronic Office (LEO I) went into operation in 1951, transforming the working lives of employees and kick-starting the development of the British computer industry.
This state-of-the art 1950s computer was small enough to fit on a single floor of Lyons head office, and held a full 2 KB of information (about a side of A4). Not much by 21st century standards, but in 1951 it was more than in any other business in the world.
Part of the LEO I is on display in our Information Age gallery, which tells the story of how our lives have been transformed by information and communication technologies over the last 200 years.
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