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I think it is yet another "bears walking on redsqare" level of claim (I mean about ternary systems). There was only one minor ternary computer produced by USSR

• jasomill 2y ago
  SETUN itself was an electronically binary machine that used bit pairs to encode ternary digits[1]. In support of your point, of the Soviet computers surveyed in the cited article, six were pure binary, two used binary-coded decimal numerics, and only SETUN was ternary[2]. [1] [Willis p. 149]https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/367149.1047530#page=19 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/367149.1047530#page=19 [2] [Willis p. 144]https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/367149.1047530#page=14 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/367149.1047530#page=14 [Willis] Willis H. Ware. 1960. Soviet Computer Technology–1959. Commun. ACM 3, 3 (March 1960), 131–166. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/367149.1047530 https://doi.org/10.1145/367149.1047530