Konrad Zuse's legacy: The architecture of the Z1 and Z3

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 5-16

  Rojas, Raúl ^a,b  

^a Free University   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; LOGIC DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PUNCH CARD SYSTEMS; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

Z1 COMPUTING MACHINE; Z3 COMPUTING MACHINE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0031121068     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.586067     Document Type: Article

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