Today in 1936, German civil engineer and early computer pioneer Konrad Zuse files for a patent on the automatic execution of calculations, a process that will become central to the Z-1, Germany’s first computer.
B. Jack Copeland & Giovanni Sommaruga in “The Stored-Program Universal Computer: Did Zuse Anticipate Turing and…
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