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Episode 101: Year 2000 Problem

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The History of the Relay Based Computer

Conrad Zeus created a relay based computer in 1935 that was almost but not quite. He'd taken a whole lot of money from the Nazis to build it. No one tried to really create a general purpose computer until World War two happened. The Z three can still use cars, but they move electricity across switches as they're using these vacuum tubes instead of a relay.

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