Konrad Zuse - The Computer - My Life (1993)

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It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

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Helmut Schreyer's supposedly wild idea [of using vacuum tubes in computing machines] proved to be one of the most fruitful ideas in all the history of computers.

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At this time [1937] the most difficult problem with the computing machine was multiplication.

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At that time [...] to construct large and expensive computing machines for scientists, for mathematicians and engineers, appeared absurd, and above all held no promise of commercial success.

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Unlike the Babbage-Boole machine, the Turing machine could in principle run all flexible programs, for it allowed the course of the calculation to be influenced by the running of the calculation itself.

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Like myself, Schreyer had failed to file his decisive idea on time: a combination of electronic and program-control computing machines. His switches, still constructed with glow lamp diodes, were later superseded by the new possibilities of semiconductor technology.

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Even IBM did not yet believe in the future of the computer.
The year he was referring to was 1947

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The concept of the computing universe is still just a hypothesis; nothing has been proved. However, I am confident that this idea can help unveil the secrets of nature.

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