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Hopefully, Konrad Zuse will regain his seminal role in current computers (i.e. Stored-program computer). Von Neumann and Turing don't deserve it.

• socialdemocrat 6y ago
  I think all of them are important but clearly Konrad Zuse has received way less attention than he deserves. Growing up I remember being taught that ENIAC was the first computer and didn’t even hear about the Z1 to Z4. But reading up on the details I find that utterly unfair. ENIAC e as way too far away from a programmable machine. It was computation units which just got wired together in different fashion. That is very removed from what a computer is today. The Z1 and later is far closer to what we think of as a computer IMHO, with actual programs being fed into it decoded using registers and and ALU etc.
  • the-dude 6y ago
    Well, and the Nazi's were flying actual fighter jet planes, and the US did not prosecute some because they helped to get into space / to the moon. This year I discovered Knickebein : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams A form of GPS if you allow me. A precursor to ILS. edit : what I wanted to say, it is not limited to Zuse.
  • anoncake 6y ago
    I vas taught zat the Z3 vas ze first (vorking) computer. Very ott.