The Russians had a ‘thing’ for balanced ternary computers during the Cold War (parallel technological universes et cetera), and the last one developed in the we

The Russians had a ‘thing’ for balanced ternary computers during the Cold War (parallel technological universes et cetera), and the last one developed in the west is reported as dating to 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer?wprov=sfti1