the first business computer in the world. 0ur colleagues at witness history have been speaking to mary coombst new, but leo was the first designed for office work. leo is fast and flexible. the first automatic office in the world. leo stands for lines electronic office. it took the idea of an ordinary mechanical calculating machine and decided to turn it into electronics —— lyons. when we started we were about five years ahead of any other firm. we were all pioneers in programming. itjust happens i was the first woman who was involved in commercial programming. lyons manufactured a lot of bakery goods, they had hotels, they had tea shops, they had restaurants. they we re shops, they had restaurants. they were always very go ahead in introducing new systems that would make for greater efficiency. i got involved with payroll straightaway. the programme is read first. playing down the sequence for the multitude of calculations that leo will perform. next the standing orders and standing revisions tee shot by tee shot barthet in. with the overriding variations on the computer today. the computer