The first female commercial computer programmer – on the Leo system that J Lyons & Co pioneered for its catering operation
Photograph: Anita Corbin/Putney high schoolPhotograph: Anita Corbin/Putney high schoolMary Coombs, who has died aged 93, was the first woman in the world trained to program a computer for business applications. She worked on the Lyons Electronic Office – Leo – the computer built in the early 1950s by the catering company J Lyons & Co to automate the back office for its national chain of 250 teashops, three vast Corner Houses in London, and sales of cakes, tea and ice-cream.
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