Chris Young quoted Do Not Pass Go by Tim Moore
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.
— Do Not Pass Go by Tim Moore (Page 213)
Lyons, famous for the Corner Houses, built their own computer in 1949!
