Early Uses of Binary Codes
- 1875: Émile Baudot "Addition of binary strings in his ciphering system," which, eventually, lead to the ASCII of today.
- 1932: C. E. Wynn-Williams "Scale of Two" counter
- 1936: Konrad Zuse Z1
- 1937: Alan Turing electro-mechanical binary multiplier
- 1938: Atanasoff-Berry Computer
- 1939: George Stibitz "excess three" code in the Complex Computer
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