Konrad Zuse

Created by Gleb Kolyano

Who is Konrad Zuse? 🤔

* Konrad Zuse was born in Berlin on 22 June 1910

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The idea of implementing automation 😼

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As a result

In 1936 he started work on his first computer having planned its design over the previous years.

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The Z1 in living room of the family home where it was built.

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Zuse to do Z1 entirely independently of other leading computer scientists and mathematicians of his day.

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The Z1 replica in the German Museum of Technology (Berlin)

Z1 technical features 🔧

  • 30,000 metal parts ➖
  • one-ton weight ➖
  • works very slow ➖
  • boolean logic 👍
  • binary floating-point number 👍
  • parts of a modern computer 👍
  • nine instructions 👍

Z2 - The First Relay-Driven Computer

The Z2 was a revised version of the Z1 using telephone relays.(photos have been destroyed)

Z3 - The first fully operational electromechanical computer

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Z3 photos

Z4 - The World's Oldest Surviving Computer

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The Z4 in Zurich

Z4 - saved original

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The Z4 in Deutsches Museum in Munich

World-changing computers (Z1, Z2, Z3) was destroyed (except Z4)😿

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Yeah, that's sad dude

Zuse recreated the Z1 🙀

It cost $500,000 and required four individuals (including Zuse) to assemble it.

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The Z1 replica in the German Museum of Technology (Berlin)

Plankalkul – the first high-level programming language 💣

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'Hello world!' with use Plankalkul

Сonclusion 📝

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Photo and monument of Konrad Zuse

The End 😺

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