It was delivered and demonstrated on 12 May 1941, and then Zuse began construction of yet another computer, the Z4 mentioned in the introduction. The Z4 expanded on the Z3, adding new features ...

On May 12, 1941, Konrad Zuse presented the Z3 - the first automatic, programmable computer. It didn't survive the war. But his ideas did, giving us computing as we ...

His invention, the Z3, was presented at the German Laboratory for Aviation in Berlin on May 12, 1941, as the world’s first entirely automatic computer controlled by programs. The Z3 ...

1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Complicating Zuse's claim of priority, an air raid destroyed his ...