The Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3
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Konrad Zuse's Z3, built in Berlin from 1938 to 1941, was destroyed during World War II. The reconstruction project started in 1994. A functional replica was built and unveiled at a conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the public presentation of the original machine in 2001. The reconstruction project includes several Java simulations of components of the whole machine and a 3D functional simulation of the Z3 and its user console.
[1] 23 For a more detailed account, see Zuse's autobiography (K. Zuse, The Computer— My Life, Springer-Verlag, 1993) or Petzold's history of early computing in Germany: H. Petzold, Moderne Rechenkünstler [Modern Computing Wizards], C.H. Beck, 1992 (in German).
[2] H. Petzold, Moderne Rechenkünstler [Modern Computing Wizards], C.H. Beck, 1992 (in German).
[3] R. Rojas, "Konrad Zuse— War der Erfinder des Computers doch kein Musterschüler?" [Konrad Zuse— Was the Inventor of the Computer No Role Model in School?], Telepolis.de, 1 Jan. 2001 (in German).
[4] R. Rojas, "Konrad Zuse's Legacy: The Architecture of the Z1 and Z3," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 19, no. 2, 1997, pp. 5-16. The article has been translated into Russian and Polish ().
[5] R. Rojas and U. Hashagen eds. The First Computers—, History and Architectures, MIT Press, 2000.
[6] P. Ceruzzi, Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935–1945, Greenwood Press, 1983.
[7] R. Rojas, "On Basic Concepts of Early Computers in Relation to Contemporary Computer Architectures," Proc. 13th World Computer Congress, 1994, pp. 324-331.
[8] A. Thurm, "Eine Simulation der Z3 für das Internet" [The Simulation of the Z3 for the Internet], Die Rechenmaschinen von Konrad Zuse [[The Computing Machines of Konrad Zuse] , R. Rojas, ed., Springer-Verlag, 1998 (in German).
[9] R. Rojas, "Simulating Konrad Zuse's Computers," Dr. Dobbs J. no. 316, Sept. 2000, pp. 64-69.
[10] R. Rojas, "Die Architektur der Rechenmaschinen Z1 und Z3 von Konrad Zuse" [The Architecture of the Computing Machines Z1 and Z3], Informatik Spektrum, vol. 19, no. 6, 1996, pp. 303-314 (in German).
[11] R. Rojas ed. Die Rechenmaschinen von Konrad Zuse [The Computing Machines of Konrad Zuse], Springer-Verlag, 1998 (in German).
[12] R. Rojas, "How to Make Konrad Zuse's Z3 a Universal Computer," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 20, no. 3, 1998, pp. 51-54.
Index Terms:
Konrad Zuse; Z3 computer; history of computing in Germany; Z3 reconstruction, history of computing
Citation:
Ra? Rojas, Frank Darius, C? G?ktekin, George Heyne, "The Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 23-32, July-Sept. 2005, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2005.48
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