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Bruno March 18, 2010 20:02 5 Thumb-ups
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Nazi computer

Being 1947, the polar nazis may have found out about ENIAC and decided to develop their own version, perhaps to calculate data about their saucers, and conceive testing of new systems, wind tunnel saucer data, blah, blah, blah...essentially complementing their now limited number of scientists and engineers. It could be called Z5, considered a more advanced sucessor of the Z3 and be a monstruous combination of the german Z3, the british Colossus, and the american ENIAC, trying to integrate the best qualities of each, but ends up being the grandfather of "Not only I swear it's intelligent, but this damn computer wants to prove that it's smarter than me" computers (you know those, chances are you're reading this on one of them). It could have vacuum tubes that breaks precisely every lunch hour, show it's results in an encrypted enigma-like fashion, and constantly present "penguins" (slang for a system malfunction, originating from a major crash, whose cause was found to be a penguin found electrocuted inside the computer, next to a empty bottle of russian vodka. The investigation proved inconclusive, but the recently sad private Hans, recruited from the eastern front, disappeared soon after. Some say he was blamed and executed, others claim it was suicide by going outside because of his loss. No one ever found out what the penguin intended to do with the bottle).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

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Matti Delahay May 18, 2010 09:14 Flag

Tonatiuh: Not a bad idea, thanks for the suggestion!

Tonatiuh Martinez May 07, 2010 21:06 Flag

How about this guy,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
? Computer pioneer, also German and worked for the 3rd Reich

Lots of contributions to modern computing he made.

Matti Delahay March 19, 2010 08:14 Flag

Yes, this would be very possible to have in the experimental tehcnology labs. :)

Seppo Hiltunen March 18, 2010 20:41 Flag

I wrote a fake "newspaper article" about giant brain some time ago: http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/5319

So without doubt I like this idea of yours that in the game there could be ENIAC style computer to help nazi scientists to do calculations.

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