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Zuse-23

Manufacturer Zuse
Identification,ID Zuse-23
Date of first manufacture1961
Number produced 99
Estimated price or cost200,000 (DM) in 1961. Exchange rate then was about $1 = 4 (DM)
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Photo
Zuse-23

Placard
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Architecture

from The Z23 Computer
	a word length of 40 bits
	
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Special features
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Historical Notes
Konrad Zuse pioneered automatic computing in Germany is the late 1930s. Examples and restorations of early work are in Berlin and Munich Germany.
from cctalk@classiccmp.org - RE: starting my relay computer project


> From: philip@axeside.co.uk
> 
> Have you read "The Computer - My Life" by Konrad Zuse (New York: 
> Springer Verlag, 1993. ISBN 0-387-56453-5)? Mostly historical / 
> autobiographical, but some good technical bits on the evolution of relay 
> logic as Zuse's designs got more mature. Interesting how the number of 
> relays per bit he needed in his adder circuit got less and less...
> 

from dwight elvey  dkelvey@hotmail.com        24 Jan 2010
	I always loved his vertually zero delay carry. At least
	it was zero for relays. It was something that one
	would not think of just looking at a single bit or
	even normal logic of digital stuff.
	Dwight

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