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From: "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Is binary a "language"?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:11:35 -0500
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"Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:

> "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:
>>
>>> Decimal computers used electronic tubes with ten states.
>>
>> Can you provide a reference to such a computer that ever got out of
>> someone's basement?  My guess is that you can not.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
>
> Perhaps you could learn some computing history.
> After all it's less than a hundred years of history, even a lazy bumb
> could have some notions.

Excellent!  That jogs my memory.