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somewhat entertaining reading the section about him working on it for months (years?) on his own before entering the formal field and seeing that most of what h
by RugnirViking 4y ago
somewhat entertaining reading the section about him working on it for months (years?) on his own before entering the formal field and seeing that most of what he was working on had already been developed. Even more impressive that he managed to swallow his pride, draw parallels between his own thoughts on the matter and the research, and then develop novel research.
- Teever 4y agoI don't know too much about Zuse but from what I do know he was far ahead of his time / environment. From my understanding the way his ideas surrounding computer design developed was dependent on the limitations of German resources during the war. As such Zuse was focused on mechanical designs while others in the rest of the world focused more on electromechanical dominated designs. The end result is that Zuse spent a lot of time going in different directions after the war, developing things that seemed to be curiosities at the time but may end up being critical in space exploration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwgpKRnWM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwgpKRnWM8 https://www.iaarc.org/publications/proceedings_of_the_27th_isarc/the_helixtower_by_konrad_zuse_automated_con_and_deconstruction.html https://www.iaarc.org/publications/proceedings_of_the_27th_i... http://zuse.zib.de/assemblyLineSelfReplicatingSystems http://zuse.zib.de/assemblyLineSelfReplicatingSystems
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