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in 1950. The computer was delivered in July 1953 and was the first commercial built-to-order mainframe in Germany. The computer was purchased to help with the design of optical
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The Z5 is the successor of the Z4, and is much more compact and powerful. Zuse implemented the machine with
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readers, which the Z4 did not have. It had conditional branching and five subroutine loops.
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were too unreliable at the time. The Z5 used the same principles as the
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Speed: addition 0.1 second, multiplication 0.4 s, division 0.7 s
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Arithmetic unit: Floating point numbers (36 bit length)
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Konrad Zuse
Zuse KG
DM
CPU
Hz
watts
kg
lb
Z4
computer
Konrad Zuse
Ernst Leitz GmbH
Wetzlar
lens
relays
vacuum tubes
Z4
punched tape

Z3
Z11
Hz
watts
kg
lb
Birthing the Computer: From Relays to Vacuum Tubes
ISBN
9781443896313
"Z5"
A survey of automatic digital computers

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