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 | | The Computer-My Life by Konrad Zuse ISBN-10: 9780387564531 ISBN-10: 0-387-56453-5 ISBN-13: 9780387564531 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-56453-1 Hardcover 1993-08 Springer Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created the first fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the first programming languages, the Plan Calculus, including features copied only decades later in other languages. He wrote numerous books and articles and won many honors and awards. This is his autobiography, written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style, full of anecdotes, reminiscences, and philosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war, to a ripe old age and well-earned celebrity. | ||
Amazon.com Review Personal computers didn't appear until the 1970s, but as early as 1941, the first automated, program-controlled, and freely programmable computer was up and running. The Computer-- My Life is the story of Konrad Zuse and his revolutionary invention--the computer (or mechanical brain as he liked to call it), which Zuse built in his parents' living room. Zuse writes his autobiography simply and directly to be accessible to a wide audience of non-technophiles and includes hand-drawn diagrams of computer functions, as well as cartoons from his younger years when he dreamed of becoming an artist. The book also includes appendices with detailed technical information for the more technical reader. | ||
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One of the few imporant biographies of the 20th century. This book and its author are just amazing. Konrad Zuse is definitly a unique character and so is his story of the invention of the FIRST computer during World War II in Berlin. | ||
Read it! An excellent source of information for those who mistakenly thought that ENIAC was the first general purpose computer. | ||
Critical for an understanding of the hist. of computers Zuse explains how and why he build the world's first computer. Easy to understand, but not belittling. This book is essential for anyone interested in the history of CS. | ||