Hackaday: The Other First Computer: Konrad Zuse And The Z3
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Konrad Zuse
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.
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business · German computer scientist and engineer (1910–1995) · inventor · entrepreneur · computer scientist · engineer · civil engineer · painter · also Konrad Zuse, Zuse
Born 22 June 1910 · Died 18 December 1995 · Q60093
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2021· 2 entries
dobreprogramy.pl: Konrad Zuse – genialny malarz, który w III Rzeszy zbudował pierwszy komputer
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2016· 2 entries
Inverse: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the World's First Programmable Computer, Was Unveiled 75 Years Ago
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dw: Zuse's Z3 computer and the digital revolution
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2009· 1 entry
The Deutsches Museum restored Zuse's original 1:30 functional model that can be extended to a height of 2
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1999· 1 entry
"for his invention of the first program-controlled, electromechanical, digital computer and the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül
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1998· 1 entry
And then in 2000 by a team from the Free University of Berlin
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1995· 7 entries
Died 1995-12-18.
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Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1995).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Hoyerswerda (1995).
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“Translation: The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.”
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Zuse died on 18 December 1995 in Hünfeld, Hesse (near Fulda) from heart failure.
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“Translation: The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.”
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“The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!”
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (1991).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Philip Morris Research Prize (1987).
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Won Wilhelm Leuschner Medal (1987).
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1985· 2 entries
Won Cothenius Medal (1985).
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Won Ernst Reuter Medal (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Won Konrad Zuse Medal (1981).
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1969· 3 entries
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1969).
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Awarded Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille (1969).
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Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space)
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1967· 1 entry
Zuse suggested that the universe itself is running on a cellular automaton or similar computational structure (digital physics); in 1969, he published the book Rechnender Raum (translated into English as Calculating Spac
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1965).
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Werner von Siemens Ring (1964).
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(together with Fritz Leonhardt and Walter Schottky)
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1957· 1 entry
The company's head office moved to Bad Hersfeld
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1956· 1 entry
Zuse began to work on a high precision, large format plotter
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1948· 1 entry
And 1959; the work in its entirety, however, remained unpublished until 1972
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1947· 1 entry
According to the memoirs of the German computer pioneer Heinz Billing from the Max Planck Institute for Physics, there was a meeting between Alan Turing and Konrad Zuse in Göttingen
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1946· 1 entry
Through ETH Zurich and an IBM option on Zuse's patents
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1945· 1 entry
Konrad Zuse married Gisela Brandes in January 1945, employing a carriage, himself dressed in tailcoat and top hat and with Gisela in a wedding veil, for Zuse attached importance to a "noble ceremony".
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1942· 1 entry
In new premises in the Industriehof on Oranienstraße 6, remained intact
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1941· 3 entries
Founded one of the earliest computer businesses, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer
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Zuse started a company, Zuse Apparatebau (Zuse Apparatus Construction), to manufacture his machines, renting a workshop on the opposite side in Methfesselstraße 7 and stretching through the block to Belle-Alliance Straße
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Improved on the basic Z2 machine, and built the Z3
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1940· 1 entry
The German government began funding him and his company through the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA, Aerodynamic Research Institute, forerunner of the DLR), which used his work for the production of glide bombs
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1939· 1 entry
Zuse was called to military service, where he was given the resources to ultimately build the Z2
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1938· 1 entry
Finished the Z1 which contained some 30,000 metal parts and never worked well due to insufficient mechanical precision
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1937· 2 entries
Zuse submitted two patents that anticipated a von Neumann architecture
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Schreyer had advised Zuse to use vacuum tubes as switching elements; Zuse at this time considered it a "crazy idea" (Schnapsidee in his own words)
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1936· 1 entry
Produced his first attempt, the Z1, a floating-point binary mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from a perforated 35 mm film
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1935· 2 entries
Studied at Technische Universität Berlin (1927–1935).
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Experimented in the construction of computers in his parents' flat on Wrangelstraße 38, moving with them into their new flat on Methfesselstraße 10, the street leading up the Kreuzberg, Berlin
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at Konrad-Zuse-Gymnasium Hoyerswerda (1927).
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1923· 1 entry
The family moved to Hoyerswerda, where he passed his Abitur in 1928, qualifying him to enter university
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1912· 1 entry
His family moved to East Prussian Braunsberg (now Braniewo in Poland), where his father was a postal clerk
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-06-22.
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