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Tim Moore: Do Not Pass Go (Vintage UK / Random House)

Welcome to London. A city where a house is yours for £50, banks make errors …

To keep control of the stupendous throughput of staff, customers and buttered scones, the firm was one of the first in Britain to acquire a computer: unable, in 1949, to find any such machine to buy, the Lyons R&D boys sat down and built one themselves, based on a pioneering Cambridge mainframe.

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Lyons, famous for the Corner Houses, built their own computer in 1949!