The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share
An essay about the reasons why the old Macintosh didn’t became a market standard over the PCs with DOS/Windows.
Konrad Zuse – inventor of world’s first digital computer
It was entirely mechanical (except for the electrical motor which give traction to the machine’s gears, but it could be swapped by a hand-driven crank) and still was digital, using binary logic to perform calculations. However it cannot be considered a complete von Neumann machine because it didn’t stored the program in the same memory as the data being processed, instead reading and executing the instructions directly from punched tape.
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