14 Nov
2003
14 Nov
'03
9:44 p.m.
hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Robin, are you thinking of the V-1 platform? Because that one was
pretty capable for a primitive cruise missile weapons platform. That's
the only one I can think of that fits your description, after all I
did visit the museum a longish time ago, as well.
No,
On the first floor there used to be (could still be there but it was a while ago) a room
concerning computing. In there was a wing, with the skin removed to show the structure,
of a Henschel anti-ship missile. These were dropped by bombers and then guided in by
radio. This was labeled up AFAIR as being manufactured by a primitive CNC system.
Looking at the various web pages from Zuse's writings he produced a measurement
system for these so that they could be produced using low tech machining.
Robin
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From: pups-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org
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Behalf Of robinb(a)ruffnready.co.uk
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:27 AM
To: Jochen Kunz
Cc: pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed?
jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> On 2003.11.13 00:06 Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > Not to demean that effort, but don't the Germans have a Z4 still
> > working in a museum? That would mean something like 1942.
> 1942 would be the Z3, the first computer ever. The Z3 that is in
the
> Deutsches Museum is AFAIK a rebuild of the
original one. (Rebuild
under
> the supervision of Konrad Zuse himself.) I
don't know if the Z4 is
still
> around. Google for "Konrad Zuse"
and / or his son "Horst Zuse".
Horst
> Zuse has put much effort in documenting the
work of his father.
>
> I know that there is a Zuse Z23 in Karlsruhe. It was build in
1956,
> based on electron tubes, core and drum
memory and it is still
fully
functional!
--
I searched and found, very very interesting. Zuse's statement that and himself had been going down similar paths
sounds very much like
Leibnitz and
Newton over Calculus :-)
About 10 years ago I went into the National Air and Space museum in
Washington
and they had a wind from a Henschel guided
missile from World War 2.
They
stated that it was built using some of the first
computer controlled
plant and I always
wondered what it was, well now I know.
Again, this is very interesting and I am astounded that it isn't
widely known
or
advertised.
Robin
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