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'''"I have no clue what I'm doing. Learning and making it up as I go along."'''
 
The T729 Balance Ternary Computer is a hobby project that I have slowly been working on since 2012. It started as a thought experiment and was a day dream project during boring college classes.
 
I've wanted to make some kind of DIY breadboard or discrete component computer for a long while but there is already an ocean of hobby 8 and 16 bit projects out there. I wanted to do something different. A base3 computer seemed like a cool idea.
 
During college I figured out on my own on paper the truth tables for the logic gates SUM, CONS, and ANY and made a full adder; proving a ternary computer was possible. Soon after I discovered the website '''The Ternary Manifesto by Douglas W. Jones''' https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/ternary/ This provided a strong foundation for my project.
 
There seems to be very little publicly accessible information on balanced ternary computing that I can easily find. Most of it is behind paywalls.
 
Because there is so little useful information I have had to self teach myself how binary computers and logic do things and then recreate it with balanced ternary logic myself.
 
I originally went to college for Computer Science but it was ALL programming classes and then I struggled with the required higher English and Math classes so much I switched to Electronics which didn't have the higher requirements. I learned a lot more in the electronics classes and it was much more hands on and fun.


I now have an AS in Electronics but my work background is still computers; IT tech support and computer repair.
The T729 Ternary Computer is a hobby project that I have been working on since 2014 in my spare time. It started as a thought experiment and was a day dream project during boring college classes. I've wanted to make some kind of DIY breadboard or discrete component computer for a long while but there is already an ocean of hobby 8 and 16 bit projects out there. I wanted to do something different. A base three computer seemed like a cool idea. I figured out on my own on paper the truth tables for the logic gates SUM, CON, and ANY. A full adder has the same layout for ternary as it does for binary. Later I discovered '''The Ternary Manifesto by Douglas W. Jones''' https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/ternary/ This site provided a strong foundation to build upon and names for the ternary gates. There does not appear to be a lot of publicly accessible information online on ternary computers. Because of the lack of existing information I've had to teach myself binary computing and make up the balanced ternary form myself.  


Other hobbies are programming and messing with small Arduino/ESP32 projects. Built a Raspberry Pi robot that can be viewed and driven over the internet in a web browser. Dabble with Blender 3D making 3d models for 3d printing and rendered stills and animations. Running a small "Homelab" that I host video game servers on for friends and myself.
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"I have no clue what I'm doing. Learning and making it up as I go along."

The T729 Ternary Computer is a hobby project that I have been working on since 2014 in my spare time. It started as a thought experiment and was a day dream project during boring college classes. I've wanted to make some kind of DIY breadboard or discrete component computer for a long while but there is already an ocean of hobby 8 and 16 bit projects out there. I wanted to do something different. A base three computer seemed like a cool idea. I figured out on my own on paper the truth tables for the logic gates SUM, CON, and ANY. A full adder has the same layout for ternary as it does for binary. Later I discovered The Ternary Manifesto by Douglas W. Jones https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/ternary/ This site provided a strong foundation to build upon and names for the ternary gates. There does not appear to be a lot of publicly accessible information online on ternary computers. Because of the lack of existing information I've had to teach myself binary computing and make up the balanced ternary form myself.

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t729 @ mr dyne . net

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