Innovator
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- Z4 in the year 1950
The innovator
Depending on his idea to perform static calculations with a computer, Zuse set up an inventor workshop in the house of his parents. There he build his first calculating machine Z1, based on the binary number system and logic shortcuts, discovered by the english mathematician George Boole in 1854. However, the Z1 worked exclusively by their mechanical switching mechanism not sufficiently reliable, because mechanical parts are permanently jammed. In his second prototyp he replaced the mechanical circuits by using electromechanical relay technology. He convince the technical director of the Research Institute for Aviation and with the financial help of them he build the worldwide completely functional computer. Other computers Zuse developed in his own company, the Zuse KG. Until 1967 his company produced 251 computer in Neukirchen. Zuse already increased in 1964 as a general partner. The Presidency assumed the German BBC in Mannheim.
