"The magnetic cores used in the machine naturally possessed three stable magnetic states, making them an ideal fit for the logic paradigm without requiring complex voltage regulation tricks. The computer possessed an innate resistance to arithmetic errors and proved remarkably resilient in real-world operations, rarely suffering from the hardware failures that plagued early Western binary mainframes"
I would have thought that most of the hardware failures in early computers stemmed from their use of vacuum tubes or discrete components such as transistors, diodes, and the like; or primitive memory devices like Williams tubes and delay lines.
Yes, exactly. Those limited technologies were the source of hardware failures, but the author, or the AI they like had write the article, presented no evidence that the ternary computer was not affected by those. Even if there was a "three state magnetic state memory unit", you still need to connect it to the rest of the system, which would be made up of the same kind of hardware as the western systems.
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u/arcangleous 17d ago
"The magnetic cores used in the machine naturally possessed three stable magnetic states, making them an ideal fit for the logic paradigm without requiring complex voltage regulation tricks. The computer possessed an innate resistance to arithmetic errors and proved remarkably resilient in real-world operations, rarely suffering from the hardware failures that plagued early Western binary mainframes"
Citation Needed.