13 Nov
2003
13 Nov
'03
12:23 p.m.
Quote from http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/3/034.html:
"A copy of his first programme-controlled electro-mechanical digital computer, the
Z3, was made in 1960 and put on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. A copy of the
Z1 was constructed in 1989, and can be found in the Museum for Transport and Technology in
Berlin."
Maciek
----- Original Message -----
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:43 am
Subject: Re: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed?
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
underthe 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!
--
tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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