100th birthday: Computermuseum honors Heinz Nixdorf

As a student he worked on a farm or beat Christmas trees. Later Heinz Nixdorf made his computer company a world corporation. About an ingenious founder of the Federal Republic – and their fatal decision.

Heinz Nixdorf was one of the most important computer developers in Europe. The entrepreneur would have become 100 years old today. To mark his anniversary, the IT Museum in Paderborn surprises with a lot of interaction. By Philipp Wundersee.[more]]>

The world's largest computer museum HNF, the Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring. In Paderborn, much is reminiscent of the founder from East Westphalia. Heinz Nixdorf would now be 100 years old.

The Paderborn engineer Heinz Nixdorf created a technical revolution in the 1960s: with small computers based on semiconductors.