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This book contains descriptions of many of these, including a particularly nice discussion of the Zuse Z3: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/first-computers https
by mschaef 9y ago
This book contains descriptions of many of these, including a particularly nice discussion of the Zuse Z3:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/first-computers https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/first-computers
Also here: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/zuse/node4.html http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/zuse/node4.html
Interestingly, the machine (built in 1941) used binary floating point. (Not IEEE754. :-))
- rerx 9y ago* Zuse, not Zeus :)
- mschaef 9y agoThanks... I've made that typo something like four times today and it's not yet 9AM.
- pinewurst 9y agoMy favorite on this subject is "Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945" by Paul Ceruzzi - sadly long out of print.
- mschaef 9y agoThanks... I just ordered a used copy. I remember enjoying one of Ceruzzi's other books: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/history-modern-computing https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/history-modern-computing