From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (robinb@ruffnready.co.uk)
Subject: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:27:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AKbAm-0001Mz-0X@anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031113084334.GM3516666@MrPomeroy2>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-11 13:18 Fred N. van Kempen
2003-11-12 1:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2003-11-12 20:49 ` Peter Jeremy
2003-11-12 23:06 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-13 8:43 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-11-14 10:27 ` robinb [this message]
2003-11-14 14:58 ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-14 15:44 ` robinb
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