The Zuse Computer Museum ZCOM in Hoyerswerda could close at the end of the year due to a lack of financial support.

Since 1935, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse has spent his entire career developing a series of automatic calculators, the first of their kind in the world: the Z1, Z2, Z3, S1, S2, and Z4. He accomplished ...

75 years ago today, a German scientist named Konrad Zuse changed computing forever. His invention, the Z3, was presented at the German Laboratory for Aviation in Berlin on May 12, 1941, as the world’s ...

The inventor of the computer was a little known German engineer named Konrad Zuse, according to a new museum exhibition that seeks to revive the unsung hero’s notoriety. Six museums around the country ...

In May 1941, in the third year of what Berlin called the Greater German Freedom Struggle, Konrad Zuse powered up the Z3 electromechanical computer. Built from 2,300 second-hand telephone switches and ...

1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Complicating Zuse's claim of priority, an air raid destroyed his ...

Computers expressing everything with just '0 and 1' got deeply into people's lives and now became an unthinkable society such as a computerless life, but the original machine was made only for 75 ...

For decades a secreted away, early digital computer from Nazi-era Germany has long sat dormant within Munich's Deutsches Museum, its operations largely a mystery to historians who required a missing ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Because Zuse designed and built his ...