Biography of John Simmons

Sat Jan 14 13:03:03 CST 2006

On 1/14/2006 at 6:34 PM David Cantrell wrote:

>Today's "Life of the Day" from the Oxford Dictionary of National
>Biography is John Simmons, who was instrumental in the creation of the
>LEO I computer by Lyons, which was the first computer to be used for
>automating tedious office jobs.

Some years ago, there was a good article in the IEEE CS "Annals" about the
Leo I.  A fascinating story.