Zuse Z4 is considered the oldest preserved computer in the world. Built in 1945, the room-sized machine runs on magnetic tapes and needs several people to operate it. Currently, it is housed at the ...

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Researchers will be able to gain a deeper understanding of what’s considered the world’s oldest surviving (digital) computer after its long-lost user manual was unearthed. The Z4, which was built in ...

For decades a secreted away, early digital computer from Nazi-era Germany has long sat dormant within Munich's Deutsches Museum, its operations largely a mystery to historians who required a missing ...

The operating manual of the world’s oldest digital computer has been unearthed in a pile of documents in Zurich, according to a blog post from the Association of Computing Machinery written by retired ...

Since 1935, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse has spent his entire career developing a series of automatic calculators, the first of their kind in the world: the Z1, Z2, Z3, S1, S2, and Z4. He accomplished ...

June 22 would be the 100th birthday of German tech genius Konrad Zuse, a pioneer who invented the world's first programmable computer. His Z3 model was used in World War II; his Z4 is in Munich's ...

Why it matters: The instruction manual for one of the world's oldest digital computers has been unearthed. With it, researchers now have a complete understanding of how the early computer functioned.

Computing didn't start with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In fact some claim it began in the 1930s in Germany, with a giant letter Z - as in Zuse, specifically Konrad Zuse. There's strong evidence that ...