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Couple of years ago, I visited the computer museum in Berlin. I made a lot of pictures of the Zuse computers which were on display there. You can find those her

Couple of years ago, I visited the computer museum in Berlin. I made a lot of pictures of the Zuse computers which were on display there. You can find those here on my Dutch site: http://thenextcorner.com/2008/01/zuse-computer-tentoonstelling/ http://thenextcorner.com/2008/01/zuse-computer-tentoonstelli... Amazing that a fully mechanical machine was able to make calculations based on a programming language.

jonsen 15y ago
Around 1990 my girlfriend and I visited Deutches Museum in Munich. At one point we both stood bent over a display intensely studying something when we were approached by an elderly gentleman. "I guess you are into computers?" "Yes we both are?" "Then I have a hot tip for you, around that corner they are working on restoring one of the old Z-machines to make it work again. Konrad Zuse himself is helping out." We vent there and saw three people concentrated around several very big blueprints. One of them was and old man with snow-white hair, holding a big yellowed sheet filled with a big mesh of electrical diagramming. Still going strong at the age of 80. A special gem to take away from that visit.