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		Lio on Sept 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger Don’t knock Lyons, they made the world’s first business computer[1] for those tea shops ...and they sell crumpets. This would be like finding out Pret had a side gig in quantum computing ...and crumpets. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

kps on Sept 18, 2020 [–]

Yes, LEO was the point. A chain of English tea shops were bleeding-edge pioneers of computing.

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