The Computer - My Life

1 Ancestors and parents -- Early childhood memories -- School days -- Metropolis -- Abitur.- 2 Studies (not without detours and by-ways) and general studies -- First inventions -- The Akademischer Verein Motiv -- Student life between science and politics.- 3 The early years of the computer (and a digression on its prehistory) -- Colleagues remember -- From mechanics to electromechanics -- Schreyer's electronic computing machine -- First outside contacts -- Thoughts on the future.- 4 Outbreak of the war and (first) call-up -- Structural engineer in aircraft construction -- The Z2 and Z3 -- Second call-up -- Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau, Berlin -- The first process computer.- 5 Origins of the Z4 -- News from the United States -- Attempt at a Ph.D. dissertation -- Computing machine for logic operations -- Final months of the war in Berlin -- The evacuation -- Z4 completed in Göttingen -- Final war days in the Allgäu.- 6 End of the war -- Refugees in Hinterstein -- The Plankalkül -- The computing universe -- Automation and self-reproducing systems -- A logarithmic computing machine -- Computer development in Germany and the United States -- Move to Hopferau near Füssen -- The mill of the Patent Office.- 7 The Zuse-Ingenieurbüro, Hopferau bei Füssen -- First business partners: IBM and Remington Rand -- The first pipelining design -- Founding of ZUSE KG in Neukirchen -- The Z4 in the ETH in Zurich -- The computer in Europe: taking stock -- Lost opportunities -- The first German contract: the Z5.- 8 The partners leave -- Computing machine for land use zoning -- Electronics gains acceptance -- First funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft -- Losing one's way (and possibly a lost opportunity) -- The arrayprocessor -- Custom work for geodesists -- The Graphomat Z64 -- Growth and crisis of ZUSE KG -- The end.- 9 Free for science (again) -- Honors -- A look to the future.- Appendices.- 1. From Forms to Program Control.- 2. Construction of Devices.- 3. On Computer Architecture.- 4. On the Plan Calculus.- 5. Lecture on the Occasion of the Award of the Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Berlin (Extract).- 6. The Computer Did Not Fall from Heaven.- Notes.- References.- Name Index.- Computer Index.