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    The Z4 was arguably the world's first commercial digital computer, and is the oldest surviving programmable computer.: 1028  It was designed, and manufactured...
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    BMW Z4 (E89) is the second generation of the BMW Z4 range of two-door roadsters, and was produced from 2009 to 2016. The E89 replaced the E85/E86 Z4 and...
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    Konrad Zuse (category Computer designers)
    he founded one of the earliest computer businesses, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer. From 1943 to 1945 he designed...
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  • Ziegler Z4 [de], airport crash tender introduced in 2015 Z4 (computer), the first computer in the world to actually be sold in 1950 Sony Xperia Z4, a smartphone...
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    universal computer but could be extended to be Turing complete. Zuse's next computer, the Z4, became the world's first commercial computer; after initial...
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    today known as the German Aerospace Center in Cologne. Zuse moved on to the Z4 design, which he completed in a bunker in the Harz mountains, alongside Wernher...
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  • mainframe in Germany. The computer was purchased to help with the design of optical lens systems. The Z5 is the successor of the Z4, and is much more compact...
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    was experimentally built entirely of relays. The Z4 was the first attempt at a commercial computer, reverting to the faster and more economical mechanical...
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  • first computer capable of conditional branching in practice, and therefore Turing complete in practice, was the ENIAC in 1946. Zuse's Z4 computer was operational...
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    Alfred Teichmann [de], whose support helped fund the successor model Z3. Z4 Weiss, Eric A. (Summer 1996). "Konrad Zuse Obituary". IEEE Annals of the History...
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    Floating-point arithmetic (category Computer arithmetic)
    arithmetic is preferable. The first commercial computer with floating-point hardware was Zuse's Z4 computer, designed in 1942–1945. In 1946, Bell Laboratories...
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  • Ferranti Mark 1 (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
    general-purpose stored-program digital computer. Although preceded as a commercial digital computer by the BINAC and the Z4, the Z4 was electromechanical and lacked...
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  • Bell Model V, 1946 2.4 OP/S: addition on Z4, 1945 1.8×101: ENIAC, first programmable electronic digital computer, 1945 5×101: upper end of serialized human...
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    developments from early devices used for simple calculations to today's complex computers, encompassing advancements in both analog and digital technology. The...
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    applications. The console of Konrad Zuse's Z3 had a keyboard in 1941, as did the Z4 in 1942–1945. However, these consoles could only be used to enter numeric...
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    needed]. In early 1945 he participated in the attempt to evacuate the Z4 (computer) to the AVA under his supervision. From 1947 to 1956 he also headed research...
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    A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry...
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    seventh computer model Konrad Zuse developed (the first six being the Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5 and Z11, respectively). One of the early commercial computers, the...
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  • instructions—at each call site. Subroutines were implemented in Konrad Zuse's Z4 in 1945. In 1945, Alan M. Turing used the terms "bury" and "unbury" as a means...
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    Bletchley Park. History of computing hardware List of vacuum-tube computers Manchester Baby Z3 Z4 The two operators have been variously identified as Dorothy...
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    blast effects. In 1954 Schardin signed the contract for taking over the Z4 computer to the ISL. Together with the French General and Engineer Robert Cassagnou...
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  • and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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    A mechanical computer is a computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components. The most common examples...
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    Surface triangulation (category Computer-aided design)
    triangulation. Triangulation: cylinder, surface x4 + y4 + z4 = 1 Triangulation: cylinder, surface x4 + y4 + z4 = 1, POV-Ray image Torus: triangulated by the marching...
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    first computer to use postfix notation, though it long remained essentially unknown outside of Germany, was Konrad Zuse's Z3 in 1941 as well as his Z4 in...
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    The Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet is a touchscreen Android tablet manufactured and designed by Sony Mobile. Unlike its predecessor, the Xperia Z4 tablet features...
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    ERMETH (category Computers designed in Europe)
    rented for five years the only existing digital computer in continental Europe at that time, the Zuse Z4, completed by Konrad Zuse in 1945, for the ETH...
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    the Zuse Z4. As there were no other commercially available electronic computers which were suitable for scientific applications aside from the Z4, this led...
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    the world. It is the oldest surviving first-generation electronic computer (the Zuse Z4 at the Deutsches Museum is older, but was electro-mechanical, not...
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    Conway Berners-Lee (category English computer scientists)
    Ferranti Mark 1was preceded by the BINAC and the Z4, BINIAC was not designed as a general purpose computer and it was never used for its intended purpose...
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