From: Sunder (sunder_at_sunder.net)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 12:15:23 PDT
Wasn't reliability - it was rather economy. It takes 4 bits to represent
a decimal digit 0-9, but 4 bits can represent 0-15. 8 bits bcd can
represent 0-99. 8 bits binary can represent 0-255.
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Dale A. Raby wrote:
> Probably a lot less reliable. That's why the industry went with
> binary... though with today's better quality tech available... it would
> be interesting to speculate. Maybe somebody will build one some day...
> though its probably not a project that could be built in my blacksmith
> shop... or anybody's basement.
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