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Veilchengerd t1_irv7no9 wrote

Reply to comment by CrieDeCoeur in TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war by mankls3

Zuse only finished his Z3 in the middle of the war. Which was a prototype. Meanwhile the mechanical IBM hardware, which was perfectly usable, had been around for years.

And there is no need to put date processing in parentheses. They used them pretty much any data processing they had to do. Not just for the genocides.

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