COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Z1 was a motor-driven mechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse from 1936 to 1937, which he built in his parents’ home from 1936 to 1938. It was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched celluloid film.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The Z3 was built with 2, 600 relays, implementing a 22-bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz.

Detailed explanation-3: -Konrad Zuse was bored. A civil engineering student in Berlin, he hated his job’s tedious calculations. So, as an engineer in 1936, he began assembling metal plates, pins and discarded movie film into what became the Z1-the first of several mechanical computers.