Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer who built the Z3 in Berlin, completed May 1941, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The Z3 was electromechanical, built from telephone relays rather than vacuum tubes, so it is credited as the first programmable computer of any kind while ENIAC, four years later, is credited as the first electronic one.
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Built the Z3, one of the first programmable digital computers.
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The Computer, Inventions Why this is disputed. Zuse's Z3, completed May 1941, was the first working programmable, fully automatic computer of any kind, but electromechanical rather than electronic, a different category from ENIAC and the ABC.
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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910-18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman.
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