The Washington Post, December 20th, 1995
Konrad Zuse, 85, the German engineer who built one of the world's first computers and lost it in the wartime Allied bombing of Berlin, died recently at his home near Fulda, Germany, after a heart attack. The date of his death was not reported. Experts argue over who invented the electronic brain that revolutionized life in the late 20th century, but Zuse's "Z3" model built in 1941 is considered the first automatic and programmable computing machine. Fleeing Berlin to protect his "Z4" model from the bombing, he refused Nazi orders to hide the computer at the mountain caves of Mittelbau Dora whe...
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