From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (robinb@ruffnready.co.uk) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:27:28 +0000 Subject: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed? In-Reply-To: <20031113084334.GM3516666@MrPomeroy2> Message-ID: 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