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In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and Logic Unit, or ALU, and showed how it processes and computes information in 8-bit ...

The Digi-Comp II is a great way to show the process of binary arithmetic in a computer and we were wondering why there aren’t any educational toys like the Digi-Comp II out today.

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign ...

At the core of every computer, smartphone, and digital device lies the transistor, a tiny but powerful component that is crucial for processing data and performing mathematical operations. But how ...

Unlike a digital computer, the brain does not use binary logic or binary addressable memory, and it does not perform binary arithmetic.

These so-called “kit” computers performed only basic functions, such as binary arithmetic, and their appeal lay in adding new components or otherwise modifying the hardware.

Inhabitants of Mangareva island spoke the language of computers centuries before the first programmer was born, creating their own fusion of binary and decimal systems ...