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In article <Jun.20.04.49.43.1988.3576@porthos.rutgers.edu>
webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes:
>In article <17496@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>, jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B.
Nagle) writes:
>>       I'd like to encourage people to write simulators for one or two of the
>> early machines, as a way of keeping the history alive....

>The earliest electronic stored-program computers that are
>well-documented in the public literature seem to be the EDVAC
>(proposal in Von Neumann's collected papers as well as significant
>discussion in the Moore School Lectures reprinted by MIT Press) and
>the ACE (Turing's proposal reprinted by MIT Press -- which differs
>from the machines actually built under that name). 

What about the early German computers? The Z-1 was built in 1941 or so and
the Germans claim that this is the first electronic computer. The man who
constructed it (I think his name was Zuse) wrote an autobiography where his
creations apparently have a big role. I haven't read it, though, so I can't
tell how technical it gets.

Bjorn Lisper