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== Intro ==
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. 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 to myself a ternary computer was possible. 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 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 work and do things and then recreate it with balanced ternary logic myself.
== Contact ==
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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 to myself a ternary computer was possible.
Soon after 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.
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 work and do things and then recreate it with balanced ternary logic myself.
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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.
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.

Revision as of 04:05, 5 June 2024


Intro

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. 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 to myself a ternary computer was possible. 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 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 work and do things and then recreate it with balanced ternary logic myself.

Contact

t729 @ mr dyne . net
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