On Sunday, December 17, 2017, Dave Horsfall &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org">dave@horsfall.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We lost Konrad Zuse on this day in 1995; he invented the world&#39;s first programmable computer -- the Z3 -- which was unfortunately lost in the Berlin bombing during 1943.<br><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>He is also known for being a pioneer in digital physics and has written a very peculiar book on the subject[1].  Highly recommended if anyone is interested in those subjects.</div><div><br></div><div>--Andy</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space</a></div>