Actually, Univac played with it back in the 1960s/1970s.  I believe they were 
working with someone from OSU.  As far as I know, they never marketed a product 
with it, but it was at least researched.

Lloyd



----- Original Message ----
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, May 6, 2013 8:00:34 AM
Subject: Re: OT - What is the proper term for "K" notation?

In
<cajtoo5_ed5s0uqief8aytixs1-ey5fcda-_xcz3k3spqyjn...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 05/03/2013
   at 05:22 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:

>When you build a memory chip, the input is X number of address bits,

Hasn't anybody built ternary memory?

"Silly wabbit, trits are for kids."

>When you build a computer disk, you can to return any number of 512
>byte sectors,

Sectors? We don't need no stinking sectors. The IBM 1301, 1302 and
23xx disks did not have sectors.

-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     Atid/2        <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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