[HN Gopher] Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf]
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       Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf]
        
       Author : xg15
       Score  : 78 points
       Date   : 2025-10-07 20:44 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | xg15 wrote:
       | See here for a video: http://zuse-z1.zib.de/videos/ht.html
        
       | johndoe0815 wrote:
       | Zuse invented many more things than the first computer and first
       | programming language - for example, an "Apparatus for controlling
       | headlights by counterlight" already in 1958!
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       | https://patents.google.com/patent/US3316442A/en
        
         | f1shy wrote:
         | Was really the first commercial, programable, turing complete,
         | binary (digital) computer. There were many special purpose
         | built computers before, both analog and digital.
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         | For previous art (but not built until much later) was Charles
         | Babbage. Later came ENIAC, which is much more what we identify
         | today with a computer.
        
         | IncreasePosts wrote:
         | He was 79 years old when he started on this - I hope I retain
         | that kind of mind that can play with ideas at that age
        
         | fritzo wrote:
         | Zuse was a genius, but I feel Moses Schonfinkel should get
         | credit for the first programming language with his S,K
         | combinators, pre-dating even Church's l-calculus.
         | 
         | https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/where-did-combin...
        
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