Binary Designers...

[IBMMuseum]

So the group of developers were designing the first binary system, and one turns to the other and says:

"You know, I don't like this 'one' bit..."

 

[Terry Yager]

So that's how monoary computers came about? I had one of those once, with WOM (write-only memory), and a WORN (write once, read never) drive for mass storage...

--T

 

[Terry Yager]

Thing had such strong security, it'd change the password every time it was powered-down, so the user had to guess the new pwd upon each boot-up. And talk about data compression...it would squeeze your entire drive down to a single bit, which, of course, couldn't be retrieved again because it was a zero-bit...

--T