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Things

By Maggie Mcdonald

4 September 2004

The lives of things also attract good writers. Georgina Ferry’s A Computer Called Leo (Harper Perennial, £7.99) recounts the arrival and demise of the first commercial computer in the world, made for British catering company Lyons. “A good story well told” said our reviewer.

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