In 1951, a British tea shop company called J. Lyons & Co. (basically the Starbucks of its time) realized they couldn’t keep up with their manual payroll. They didn’t just buy a computer—they built one. The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) became the first computer ever used for commercial business, and its very first task was…
In 1951, a British tea shop company called J. Lyons & Co. (basically the Starbucks of its time) realized they couldn’t keep up with their manual payroll. They didn’t just buy a computer—they built one. The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) became the first computer ever used for commercial business, and its very first task was processing the company’s massive payroll.
Marc Laflamme 
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