Message text written by CIO Insight Quick Facts >The First Fifty Years Congratulations! You've just been named CIO of J. Lyons & Co., a prosperous British firm with a chain of tea shops and popular brands of baked goods and ice cream. The board of directors expects your department to streamline the company's clerical work and provide up-to-the-minute analysis of sales and costs. With your experience in office automation and decision-support systems, the task ought to be straightforward. There's just one catch: It's 1949, and software for the tasks you've been assigned doesn't exist. As a matter of fact, the very word "software" has yet to be coined. You'll have to write all your own applications. As you get to work on that job, keep in mind that programming languages are still in the future as well, so you'll have to code in absolute binary. Oh, and one more thing: Lyons doesn't actually have a computer yet. Your first job is to build one. Read the full story: http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eNLm0DFw6d0FbM0cYt0Ao
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