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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
