Oral history interview with Konrad Zuse, 1975.

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Oral history interview with Konrad Zuse, 1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63276452

Zuse describes his pioneering efforts in building relay and electronic computers in the 1930s and 1940s. Zuse tells how, as a construction engineering student at the University of Berlin in the mid-1930s, he became aware of the need for large-scale calculating devices. He describes the design and construction of his Z1, a mechanical relay computer, and the problems with the mechanical calculating units and the programming capacity. He explains how these problems were overcome in his electromechanical relay calculators, the Z2 and Z3 of the 1930s and the Z4 of the 1940s. As an aircraft engineer during World War II, Zuse interested German Air Force research in using computers for wing flutter problems.

Sound cassette : 1 (60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript : 17 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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