{"id":74,"date":"2009-01-31T03:14:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-01-31T03:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T11:14:15","slug":"zuse-z3-at-the-deutsches-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Zuse Z3 at the Deutsches Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Z3_(computer)\">Z3<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Konrad_Zuse\">Konrad Zuse<\/a> was the world&#8217;s first working digital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zib.de\/zuse\/Inhalt\/Kommentare\/Html\/0684\/universal2.html\">Turing-complete<\/a> computer. It did floating point arithmetic, had two registers accessible to the programmer, was microcoded, and clocked at about 5 Hz.<\/p>\n<p>The original Z3 was destroyed in the second world war. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deutsches-museum.de\/\">Deutsches Museum<\/a> in Munich has the only working replica, built by Zuse in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of a demonstration of the Z3, including a lot of biographical information on Zuse. If you speak German, you will be blown away by the wit of the presenter; if you don&#8217;t, enjoy the clicking relays!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"docs\/zuse\/deutsches_museum_zuse_z3.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" src=\"docs\/zuse\/deutsches_museum_zuse_z3.jpg\"><br \/>(MP4\/H.264 Video, 384&#215;288, 14:30 min, 31 MB)<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Zuse Apparatebau: Er kriegte sogar noch drei Arbeitskr\u0102\u00a4fte. Das waren die, die sonst keiner mehr haben wollte. Die Zuse-Firma bestand aus ihm selber, der Chef, dann ein vorbestrafter Buchhalter, ein blinder Mathelehrer &#8211; der hat die Filme gelocht&#8230; ja, der hat das Tag und Nacht gemacht &#8211; das war dem auch wurscht, ob&#8217;s Tag oder Nacht war. Und dann kam noch ein Konstrukteur aus einer Nervenheilanstalt. Was sehen wir an der Story? In der Branche waren immer schon die abgefahrensten Typen!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Z3 by Konrad Zuse was the world&#8217;s first working digital Turing-complete computer. It did floating point arithmetic, had two registers accessible to the programmer, was microcoded, and clocked at about 5 Hz. The original Z3 was destroyed in the second world war. The Deutsches Museum in Munich has the only working replica, built by &#8230; <a title=\"Zuse Z3 at the Deutsches Museum\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=74\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zuse Z3 at the Deutsches Museum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}