270 стр. 2 иллюстрации Аннотация The eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world’s first office computer and the Lyons Teashop.The Lyons teashops were one of the great British institutions, providing a cup of tea and a penny bun through the depression and the war, though to the 1970s. Yet Lyons also has a more surprising claim to history.In the 1930s John Simmons, a young maths graduate in charge of the clerks’ offices, had a dream: to build a machine that would automate the millions of tedious transactions and process them in as little time… СкачатьПодробнее Оцените книгу Georgina Ferry A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer