In ancient times (about 20 years ago), before the home computer and the Internet, a "bit" was something a horse gripped between its teeth, "byte" was a misspelled variant of "bite," "kilo" was drug ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

I'm ashamed to admit that as a programmer I've never worked with binary data.<BR>Anyway, now that that's out of the way...<BR><BR><BR>I know you can do simple ...

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...

In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.

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 with ...