Konrad Zuse and his Z3, built in LEGO by Moritz Nolting
In 1941, Konrad Zuse built his Z3, the world’s first “Turing-complete” computer. (That’s four years before ENIAC.)
In this vignette for the Reasonably Clever Brick Science contest, Moritz Nolting puts Zuse in front of his shiny new computing machine:
September 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
That’s a really excellent build, and in the general area I’d hoped to mine (I just wasn’t able to get the concept of the Turing test to work right, alas).
September 17th, 2008 at 12:24 am
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