[csw-maintainers] Summercamp Date TBD: 13.-15. September 2013

[Joerg Schilling]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> registrations are rolling in and organization is proceeding. So far the following
> persons have enrolled for participation:
>
> Dagobert Michelsen
> Carsten Grzemba
> Juraj Lutter
> Peter Felecan
> Laurent Blume
> Jörg Schilling
>
> Jörg found out that the legendary Zuse Z3 (the worlds first working programmable,
> fully automatic computing machine)
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
> will be demonstrated on 15. September morning by Horst Zuse, the grandchild of
> the inventor Konrad Zuse, so the date would be pretty cool. From the list so far
> all participants are ok with the date, Carsten and me are "maybe", but I can shuffle

Hi Dagobert, Horst Zuse is the son of Konrad Zuse and I have to admit that 
there is no way to see the original Z3 from 1941 as it has been bombed by 
the "allies" on December 21 1943.

There exists a non working but natural looking replique in Munic and a working 
machine made of current smaller relais. This working machine:

	http://www.z3-computer.de/

will be presented in Berlin by the son of Konrad Zuse. Host Zuse build this 
machine in his flat in Berlin 3 years ago.

Near by this machine, the Technik Museum has a original replique of the first 
mechanical programmable computer Z1 (from 1937).

	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuse_Z1-2.jpg

If you are interested, I will send a mail to Horst Zuse asking whether he may 
give an explanation in English.

History:

Z1	1937 First digital programmable computer (mechanical and unreliable)
Z2	1939 Experimental arithmetic block to evaluate relais
Z3	1941 First electrical digital programmable computer
Z4	1942 First commercially sold programmable computer


Jörg

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