[HN Gopher] Konrad Zuse (1994)
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Konrad Zuse (1994)
Author : tmalsburg2
Score : 46 points
Date : 2024-04-02 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)
| doener wrote:
| My brain needed some time to process the "Last updated 94/09/30"
| at the end. Oh, he means 1994!
| nottorp wrote:
| Y/M/D, the only sane way to spell dates.
|
| Too bad it's only a 2 digit year.
| Cu3PO42 wrote:
| I'd argue ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) is superior still because it
| is much more difficult to confuse for etiher DD/MM/YYYY or
| MM/DD/YYYY.
| nottorp wrote:
| I can stomach any separator as long as the order is right
| ;)
| moritzruth wrote:
| More info on Plankalkul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalkul
| drannex wrote:
| Any reason for the strange submitted url if it redirects to
| http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de/?
|
| Edit: Looks like HN auto changes it to that. http:// www.
| plankalkul .de/ Is it because of the u?
| sgt wrote:
| If you have a modern OS or browser it should show
| "http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de" in the URL field.
| drannex wrote:
| Windows 11, Firefox. Doing the same on my NixOS install with
| Firefox (showing the proper url). Seems like a regression if
| "modern" systems are supposed to be showing that eyesore of a
| URL, which I get could be a phishing safety thing, but
| annoying to say the least.
| nottorp wrote:
| I get http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de/ in my Firefox (Mac OS)
| address bar. I think it's modern? I mean I let it auto
| update.
|
| Tbh I like the xn-- spelling more, it makes it more
| mysterious.
| sgt wrote:
| I guess it's a FF thing...
| nottorp wrote:
| Waaaait. I'm pretty sure I pasted the correct spelling
| and HN changed it. Let's try again:
|
| http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de/
|
| I see plankalkul with the umlaut as I'm writing. Let's
| see what's displayed when I post the comment...
| masfuerte wrote:
| Although HN has translated the umlauted url to punycode
| for display, it uses the original umlauted url in the
| anchor's href attribute. Firefox is happy with the href
| in either format.
| pgeorgi wrote:
| yes, u requires punycode encoding. The xn-- prefix indicates
| that.
|
| And because there are way too many ways to confuse people with
| similar looking characters, the domains can be typed in and
| converted appropriately, but some webbrowsers ensure that you
| notice if something is off with www.bankofamerica. com (www.xn
| --bnkofamerica-x9j. com)
| drannex wrote:
| There _has_ to be a better way, this is in no way beneficial
| to normal people. This just makes it even worse from a UX
| standpoint.
| pgeorgi wrote:
| There are a bunch of ideas, like giving different unicode
| codepoints groups different background colors. That way, a
| and a show up differently colored.
|
| It's more a UX problem than a technical one, so simple "why
| not X?" technical proposals tend to be incomplete.
| amatic wrote:
| > I started in 1934, [... ] At that time, the computing industry
| was limited to mechanical calculators using the decimal system.
|
| That seems a bit biased toward discrete systems. Engineers and
| scientists of the time used mechanical and (later) electric
| analog computers, and they were more powerful than the new
| discrete systems, for most purposes. For example: Helmut
| Hoelzer's Fully Electronic Analog Computer used in the German V2
| (A4) rockets https://www.cdvandt.org/Hoelzer%20V4.pdf (text in
| German, but has some pictures and diagrams)
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| See Abbildung 10 (p16) for an amazingly analog way to calculate
| f(y(t))
|
| > _Some have harsh words for this man of renown / But some
| think our attitude / Should be one of gratitude_ --TAL
| HPsquared wrote:
| I guess base-10 is still "digital", in that it works with
| digits.
| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _User Manual for the Zuse Z4 Discovered (2020)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124291 - Jan 2024 (4
| comments)
|
| _Plankalkul_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35053402 -
| March 2023 (47 comments)
|
| _Reconstruction of mechanical logic gates and memory element of
| the Zuse Z1_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32169178 -
| July 2022 (2 comments)
|
| _The "Plankalkul" of Konrad Zuse: The first high level
| programming language_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26593656 - March 2021 (1
| comment)
|
| _Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712727 - Jan 2021 (10
| comments)
|
| _The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605150 - Sept 2020 (61
| comments)
|
| _Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24573125 - Sept 2020 (14
| comments)
|
| _Plankalkul: The First High-Level Programming Language and Its
| Implementation_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364898 -
| May 2020 (1 comment)
|
| _Antedating "datatype" all the way to Plankalkul (2017)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975279 - Jan 2019 (2
| comments)
|
| _Calculating Space by Konrad Zuse (1969) [pdf]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325689 - Oct 2018 (1
| comment)
|
| _Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724173 - Aug 2018 (3
| comments)
|
| _Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682343 - May 2016 (53
| comments)
|
| _Plankalkul_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909784 -
| Jan 2016 (14 comments)
|
| _Konrad Zuse Internet Archive_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10377271 - Oct 2015 (1
| comment)
|
| _The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse 's First
| Computer (2014) [pdf]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107955 - Aug 2015 (5
| comments)
|
| _Konrad Zuse: Nearly the German Turing_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9199500 - March 2015 (33
| comments)
|
| _Computers During World War Two: Konrad Zuse_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282085 - Nov 2011 (7
| comments)
|
| _100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first
| programming language_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1451542 - June 2010 (21
| comments)
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| I found out about Zuse because I was tasked with giving a
| presentation about an important German, when I was taking German
| classes at the Goethe Institut. Probably bored the hell out of
| everyone listening, but it was a bit of an eye opener as he's not
| so commonly discussed.
| artemonster wrote:
| Shameless plug: if you are interested in relay processors, check
| out mine: https://github.com/artemonster/relay-cpu
| sneed_chucker wrote:
| If you speak German there are decent quality interviews of him
| from the 80s on YouTube.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgLOV5H4d30
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