On my journey through the German computer collections, I naturally couldn't leave out the Deutsches Museum. In the fourth part, we look at the Zuse Z4, the world's first commercial computer with probably the world's first programming environment.
Jump marks:
00:21 Introduction
00:43 Plan-Production-Device: the world's first Programming-Environment
01:02 Supported Operations of the Z4
01:38 Technical Data & first commercial Computer in the World
02:07 Setting up the Machine according to the Instruction-Manual
02:38 Control-Panel of the Plan-Production-Device
02:56 Keypad for Memory-Addresses
03:16 The "Error" Button
03:27 Scanners At-0 and At-1
04:05 Print-Commands D0 to D3 for Result-Registers
04:05 Output via "Mercedes Elektra" Typewriter
04:27 Mechanical Memory of the Z4
04:34 The "Plates" are missing in the Memory-Cage
04:59 Mechanical Memory-Interface to the Electrical-System
05:26 Arithmetic Unit wirth remote Signalling-Relay
05:57 Missing Stepping-elays
06:12 Output Unit with Glow-Lamps
06:31 Modern Input-Keyboard
Left:
- Homepage Museum: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/
- Info about the Film: http://www.holzheu.de/filme/dm/zuse-z4
- Blog about the Film: http://www.holzheu.de/zu-besuch-im-deutschen-museum
Music used in the Film:
- Embracing Technology (MusicLFiles): https://filmmusic.io/song/6849-embracing-technology
- Technology Is Here (MusicLFiles): https://filmmusic.io/song/6842-the-technology-is-here
Sources of information:
- Zuse KG: Instruction manual Z4 (1952)
Change log:
11.11.2020 First Version
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