More questions, then:
What did they do? I guess they couldn't have been that powerful if the
ENIAC took up a whole building...
>Big ? Hmm. The Z1 could be described as a desktop computer,
>since Zuse (and his friends) bulid it on his parents kitchen
>table - but it tool up the whole table.
>
>Thru wartime tjhere have been 4 Models - Z1..Z4.
>After the war I think somewhat like 40 or so designes,
>and some of them had quite some success. The Zuse
>company did some very unique computers some of them
>even part analogue and part digital. They also did
>the first computer generated graphics not only in
>science lab, but also sold drawing/cartography equippment.
>They also had the first plotter running. And sold
>them. Also some early CNC installations are credited
>to Zuse (Beside that he in fact designed the first
>process controlling computer ever - for production
>of V1 cruise missiles) Eventualy SIEMENS bought Zuse
>in the 60s.
>
>Some exist sill - i.e. a reproduction of the Z1 in
>the Museum fur Verkehr und Technik in Berlin, or a
>Z3 in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. I don't know if
>any of the later (after Z11) 'usual' machines survived.
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
>PS.: Zuse also aquired some patents in the 50s for his
>ideas about the Feldrechenmaschiene (field calculating
>engine) - early ideas for parallel processing and still
>base for a lot of newer designs.
>
>P.P.S.: Try
>http://www.histech.rwth-aachen.de/www/quellen/Histcomp/Zuse.html
>for a nice lifetime/development story.
>
>--
>Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
>HRK
>
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