Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer (dcmlr.inf.fu-berlin.de)

Great project.

Konrad Zuse performed an amazing feat.

It's also fun to imagine this happening in e.g. the 1860s instead of the 1930s/1940s. I believe the tech was there (because of telegraphs), the production of relays just wasn't industrialized yet, so everything would be larger, handmade and more expensive.

Advent of computing podcast did a series on his computers, of which this is a link to one of the episodes: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=170d60ae-c534-46f6-968b-...

Klemens Krause has been documenting his restoration of the mechanical Z1 replica: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpOUadaBh31n6Pdscwhwopmh...

One still can see an operational original Z22 in my home town [0] . Quite impressive (would be Z7 by normal counting, Zuse also invented creative versioning of CPUs I guess)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z22_(computer)

Konrad had the ideas; others received the glory. History has been unfair to him—he was simply on the wrong side of it.