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Henry Bremridge wrote: > Win 98 bites the dust, came across the following site > > http://www.jbum.com/idt/history.html > > > A History and Overview of Computing in Ancient Britain > > Enjoy > > henry > Has anyone else read 'A computer called Leo' - its about the Lyons tea rooms central valve computer from 1952 or so - the first business computer ever. Probably 5 years before the US's worlds first business computer*! Its an amazing read and reveals that in the early fifties Lyons had a business system that was more 'integrated' than most (all that I have seen) Windows Business Systems. Tom the farmer. * I've just been reading this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX>I'm amazed to discover that Microsoft are now trying to claim some knowledge of the internet in 1995. I was writing cross communicating web <FRAMESET> about 2 years earlier and if I was oing that heaven knows what others were doing! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html