 Funding for this retrocomputing project was provided by Siemens and a consortium of five companies.Konrad Zuse married Gisela Brandes in January 1945, employing a carriage, himself dressed in tailcoat and top hat and with Gisela in a wedding veil, for Zuse attached importance to a "noble ceremony".Their son Horst, the first of five children, was born in November 1945.