From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 08:21:13 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] The birth of the Z3 Message-ID: Way back on this day in 1941, Conrad Zuse unveiled the Z3; it was the first programmable automatic computer as we know it (Colossus 1 was not general-purpose). The last news I heard about the Z3 was that she was destroyed in an air-raid... This pretty much started computing, as we know it. -- Dave