In the 1950’s, a group of Austrian students led by Heinz Zemanek designed and built the Mailüfterl, one of the earliest fully transistorized computers. For a brief moment, this “Viennese spring breeze” put Austria at the vanguard of European computing.
…At the time, leading U.S. machines were named after types of wind, such as MIT’s Whirlwind and RCA Laboratory’s Typhoon. In a gentle nod to this, Zemanek nicknamed his computer Mailüfterl, meaning “May Breeze.” As he joked: “We are not going to produce… any of those big American storms, but we will have a very nice little Viennese spring breeze!”
On May 27, 1958 the Mailüfterl ran its first calculation and became mainland Europe’s first fully transistorized computer—and one of the earliest in the world…
Zemanek died on Wednesday July 16 2014 in Vienna at the age of 94 years.
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| Duration: | 06:01 |
| Country: | Austria |
| City: | Vienna |
| Language: | EN |
| CC available: | EN, DE |
| Resolution max: | 1080p |
| Video Source: | YouTube |
| Provided by: | computingheritage |
| Published on: | 2014-07-18 |
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| Category: | Education & Learning History Technology & Innovation |
| Type: | CC |
