9 Jul
2001
9 Jul
'01
5:37 a.m.
Quoting Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com>om>:
Jeff, what's a Zuse Z1?
Whwhwhwa!? The Z1 was an early computer built by Konrad Zuse.
: The Z1 is today considered to be the first freely programmable
: computer of the world. It was completed in 1938 and financed
: completely from private funds. Konrad Zuse's first computer, built
: between 1936 and 1938, was destroyed in the bombardment of Berlin
: in WW II, together with all construction plans. In 1986, Konrad
: Zuse decided to reconstruct the Z1.
:
: The Z1 contained all parts of a modern computer, e. g. control
: unit, memory, micro sequences, floating point logic
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu