There’s an excellent book, A Computer Called Leo, by Georgina Ferry:
And I see there’s a preservation society, credited in the video:
The LEO Computers Society (which has charitable status) started life as a reunion society for people who worked on these remarkable machines. Its principal mission now is to ensure that LEO’s heritage is preserved, protected and - importantly - promoted to wider audiences.
Here’s a new 30 min documentary with some first person accounts and some historical images:
(It’s from the Centre for Computing History, in Cambridge.)
Once LEO was in operation and became known about, other people came to the Lyons management and asked can we use your computer?
And this included, for example, the Met Office. It included the people who were building military aircraft and they came to us, can we do that?
And we programmed that for him, and it became a regular weekly job in an entirely new way.
For the Ordnance Board, LEO worked out range tables. For Handley Page, LEO carried out flutter and stress calculations for faster, safer flight. For Attwood Statistics, LEO analyses the findings of market research.
For the coal board, LEO worked out the classifications in the fight against pneumoconiosis.
For the British Transport Commission, LEO worked out the shortest distance by rail from each station to all the other four thousand.