Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!joyce!sri-unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: non-binary hardware Message-ID: <1398@garth.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 88 01:00:12 GMT Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 4 References: > By the way, does anyone know of a non-mechanical digital calculator or > computer that isn't essentially binary? Once upon a time there were rumours of a Russian computer with +voltage, 0 voltage, and -voltage so that it would be base 3.