Artifact Details

Title

Some Remarks on the History of Computing in Germany by Konrad Zuse

Catalog Number

102639685

Type

Moving image

Description

The First International Research Conference on the History of Computing was a milestone in the history of computing, drawing a global elite of computer pioneers from the first generation of electronic digital computing. Most talks are approximately 45 minutes in duration and feature a lecture with a brief question and answer period afterwards.

German engineer Konrad Zeus’s remarkable story of building advanced electromechanical and electronic computers during and after World War II is a heroic example of a visionary thinker working under nearly impossible conditions. Zuse’s wartime contributions to computing, while unrecognized at the time, are now well known, in part due to this talk.

This lecture’s transcript was included in the edited volume from the conference, viz. Zuse, K., “Some Remarks on the History of Computing in Germany,” in Metropolis, N., and Howlett, J., Rota, Gian-Carlo, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, New York: Academic Press, 1980, pp. 611 – 627.

Date

1976-06-14; 2002

Credits

Zuse, Konrad

Participants

Zuse, Konrad, Speaker

Place of Publication

Los Alamos, NM, US

Identifying Numbers

Deprecated CHM identification number VT39.82 On Reel 31
Other number Reel 30 Original tape numbering
Other number Reel 31 Original tape numbering

Duration

00:12:22

Dimensions

10 inches

Format

Betacam SP

Category

Lecture

Series Title

International Research Conference on the History of Computing

Lot Number

X5953.2011