T729:About

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.

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