Hello from Gregg C Levine
Robin, are you thinking of the V-1 platform? Because that one was
pretty capable for a primitive cruise missile weapons platform. That's
the only one I can think of that fits your description, after all I
did visit the museum a longish time ago, as well.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pups-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:pups-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On
> Behalf Of robinb at ruffnready.co.uk
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:27 AM
> To: Jochen Kunz
> Cc: pups at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed?
> 
> jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> > 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
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!
> > --
> 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
> 
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