Morrison is a "physio" now, not a "physco". He thinks he is a ladies hairdresser, although his victim thought that his handling of her hair was a bit too vigorous, so perhaps he should stick to physiotherapy - anything but politics.

ttbn, I might have a problem seeing with my eyes, but you have a worse problem seeing with your brain

I typed; "ttbn is a genious", and the word predictor typed; "ttbn is a scumbag", can't fool this phone it thinks for itself.

What's worse than an Old Fart, an Old Old Fart. PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

Built in 1961

Programmed using Intercode and CLEO (assembler- 35 bit and database)

According to the article one of the LEOIII innovations was Ferrite Core Memory rather than Mercury Delay Line (audio transducer) Memory not as good as capacitor memory but more persistent I suppose.

Another innovation was a solid state design presumably this means it used transistor switches on a die rather than switched vacuum tubes.

Seemingly it came in an era where solid state processors had been developed but not solid state memory- interesting how technology progresses at different rates.

Tubemakers of Australia- haven't heard their name for a while- I checked and it appears they merged into OneSteel. There's some great photos on Google of Tubemakers products.

Thanks Bazz for the reminiscing- were you the Intercode or the CLEO programmer (or both)?

The link with Bletchly Park is great.

Yes Armchair Critic- the Commodore 64- but the Amstrad was better ;) A bit of computer politics.

The IBM Online QM machine is interesting.

Bazz's link with Bletchly Park seems to highlight the importance of technology for national security.

Canem, I used both intercode which was a lower level language for
minor fiddles mainly for maintenance routines,
I wrote a few programs in Cleo which was a Cobal style language.
I was not employed as a programmer and just dabbled a bit to have a
spare parts program for tracking supplies.

The LEO III was the third version. I am fairly certain that there
was only one LEO I. A number of LEOIIs were built for companies like
Shell.
The LEOIII was all solid state, germanium transistors etc.
The only valves were in the tape drives, trying to remember their
name, American made.
At the same time I was working on a KDF6 at the Egg Marketing Board.
There was also a KDF9 at Sydney University.
The KDF stood for Kidsgrove in the UK where the factory was located.
Spent some time there learning the ropes.
My boss there worked with Alan Turing at Farnborough on ACE.
That was as close as I got to any of the famous people in computing.

Re Bletchly Park, Alan Turing and the Bombes used to break the Enigma
machine was the first breakthrough but the work of Bill Tutt was more
significant because he broke the Lorenz machine which was used in
a Radio Teleprinter system for High Command traffic and direct to Hitler.
Whereas the Enigma had three rotors, the Lorenz machine had twelve.
It indeed needed a computer to break into it.
So Tommy Fellows built Colossus.

When the war ended the key people went to Manchester and Cambridge Universities.
It was from there that the Lyons Corner Tea Shop company recruited the
people to build the first computer used to run a business.
There is an association of ex LEO Computer people involved with the
National Computer Museum.