18 Jul
2019
18 Jul
'19
3:09 a.m.
Hi,
Am 17.07.2019 um 17:08 schrieb Ben Greenfield via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>:
To be more clear the innovations developed by Heinz
Nixdorf in the early days of the company did not contribute to Unix but was it also
concept and worthy of study.
After Heinz died the company lost direction and was purchased by Siemens.
Indeed. There is btw a very nice collection of european mainframes presented
in a collection at the „Computermuseum“ at the University of Applied Sciences
in Kiel (sorry, webpages in German only):
https://www.fh-kiel.de/index.php?id=computermuseum
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computermuseum_der_Fachhochschule_Kiel
The collection of mainframes is quite large and they have a good collection of Zuse
machines (although they lack a working Z1 which is presented in Berlin and if you are
lucky is explained by Horst Zuse, the son of Konrad Zuse).
If you ever happen to be in northern Germany and want to give it a try let me know
and I’ll make sure you get a tour in english :-)
Best regards
— Dago
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