There had been working ternary computers made in the USSR[1] 60 years ago, though, as far as I know, they still had binary memory (2 ferrite bits were used to s

There had been working ternary computers made in the USSR[1] 60 years ago, though, as far as I know, they still had binary memory (2 ferrite bits were used to store each "trit") and that was quite a waste. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun