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Technology: computers

It is 62 years since J Lyons, a baker and catering company once famous in Britain for its tea shops, turned on the world’s first commercial electronic computer.

The machine went on to perform, in rudimentary form, many of the functions of a modern information technology system, from payroll calculations to managing daily orders coming in from the company’s shops.

The rest, as they say, is history. IT now sits at the heart of the modern corporation – globally co-ordinated and responding instantly to market signals.

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