14 Nov
2003
14 Nov
'03
4:27 p.m.
jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
On 2003.11.13 00:06 Johnny Billquist wrote:
I searched and found, very very interesting. Zuse's statement that the
Colossus team 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
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!
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