Archive for June, 2008

Man Who Invented First Business Computer Dies

Monday, June 30th, 2008

On November 17th 1951, the J. Lyons Company began weekly operation of a bakery valuations job on a computer called LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). This was the first business application to go live on a stored program computer anywhere in the world. David Caminer, LEO’s systems and programming manager at the time, died June 19 […]