Konrad Zuse

By Chase, Ethan, and Serenity

He helped create the first computer. He was born on June 22nd 1910 in Berlin Germany. He died on December 18 1995 in Hunfeld Germany. By the time of Konrad's death he was 85 years old. Konrad Zuse put together his first computer in his his parent's Berlin apartment.

He made 4 different computers. They weren't all fully functionally but the did work. They go from the Z1-Z4. Some were completely electro-mechanical functional.

Z1 is also known as Versuchsmodell 1, experimental model one. When Zuse made this computer he was making it alone. The Z1 was in the process of being designed from 1935 to 1936. Zuse finally built the computer from 1936 to 1938. The computer was fully functional in 1938.

Now we are going to talk about the Z2 computer. The Z2 was built in 1939. Konrad Zuse wanted to know if relays helped with the results of how the computer ran. He tried to use 600 relays witch didn't go to well for him. He use the arithmetic witch had a 16 bit word length. It weighed 3 KG. To power it they had to use 1000 wats.

The z3 computer was open to the public on May 12, 1941

The z4 was almost completed in 1945. It was an order by Henschel Aircraft company in 1942. On March 16 1945 Zuse and his wife with some of his employees from his company Zuse-Apparatebau. It was reassembled in the years after 1945. In 1955 it was moved to the Institute Franco-Allemand des Recherches de in St. Louis in France.