The computer, my life
by Konrad Zuse · first published 1993
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+1 for The Friendly Orange Glow. Also interesting: Konrad Zuse's "The Computer, My Life".
on “Inventing the Atari 2600 (1983)” ↗…which is a shame! And then they devote hundreds of pages to his contemporaries. I searched Amazon and apparently has an autobiography, which doesn't appear to be widely read: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-My-Life-Konrad-Zuse/dp/35405...
on “Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary” ↗…what the significance of that statement is and I won’t baselessly speculate, but it sure makes me curious. Zuse wrote an autobiography, and it has been translated into English -- https://www.amazon.ca/Computer-My-Life-Konrad-Zuse/dp/354056... Chapter 5 - Origins of the Z4 - News from the United States - Attempt at a Ph. D. dissertation - Computing machine for logic operations - Final months of the war in Berlin -…
on “Plankalkül” ↗