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Don’t knock Lyons, they made the world’s first business computer[1] for those tea shops ...and they sell crumpets. This would be like finding out Pret had a si
by Lio 6y ago
Don’t knock Lyons, they made the world’s first business computer[1] for those tea shops ...and they sell crumpets.
This would be like finding out Pret had a side gig in quantum computing ...and crumpets.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
- kps 6y agoYes, LEO was the point. A chain of English tea shops were bleeding-edge pioneers of computing.