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Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app

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1968 - IBM 1401 Autocoder and BASIC. Ah, the smell of punch cards in the morning.

But I wouldn't compare myself to LEO programmers. I'm not sure what they wrote in since the Autocode language (not to be confused with IBM Autocoder) was not ported to EDSAC until much later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode

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