Quoting Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>:
> Jeff, what's a Zuse Z1?
Whwhwhwa!? The Z1 was an early computer built by Konrad Zuse.
>From http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse/en/ :
: 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_at_ou.edu
Received on Mon Jul 09 2001 - 12:37:53 BST