Computers in a No WW2 TL

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How would computers develop without world war two? Several countries were working on them during the war, including the US, Britain, and Germany, each with their own advantages. Germany's computer industry, led by this man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
was pretty much eliminated after the war and his company dissolved with its research and patents being optioned by IBM. Ahead of its time in some ways the Zuse machines went largely unnoticed in the US and UK.
Without the war, do the German machines eventually rival the US and UK? Or does the lack of war and atomic bomb development retard computer growth?
 
As far as the UK development goes, it can only help, as it avoids having the most modern computers and computer science being classified Top Secret and the best brains in the discipline and industry being banned from contributing.
 
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