That is it : I am becoming a programmer.

[VectraMan]

A unery system might even work:-

0 = [null]
1 = 0
2 = 00
3 = 000, etc

Addition involves simply appending 0's from one number to be added to the other, e.g. 0 + 00 = 000 and subtraction is just as simples. Larger numbers can be represented with mantissa and exponents too: 00^000 ( 2^3 ) = 00000000 and multiplication is not that difficult either.

If binary is represented by a voltage meaning 1, and the absence of voltage meaning 0, then the great thing about unery is that you never need any voltage. Therefore all the world's computers can be switched off ensuring the world's temperature remains constant for the next million years.

Quick, somebody suggest it to Gordon Brown.

[Spacecadet]

The only real programmers are those who learnt pre-internet with a crappy Amstrad CPC computer manual.

[NotAllThere]

Im a C# dev, means I never need to worry about the working world, ever!.

ftfy

The only real programmers are those who learnt pre-internet with a crappy Amstrad CPC computer manual.

Nonsense. Real programmers learned Z80A on a ZX81 using just the opcodes in the appendix.

I just fixed a program I wrote, that went live over two years ago. I could still work out what it was doing, and so found the bug. What amazes me is that no-one noticed it before.

[Spacecadet]

ftfy

Nonsense. Real programmers learned Z80A on a ZX81 using just the opcodes in the appendix.

What processor do you think was in the Amstrad CPC range of computers?

[Churchill]

The only real programmers are those who learnt pre-internet with a crappy Amstrad CPC computer manual.

What processor do you think was in the Amstrad CPC range of computers?

Anything more than an accumulator, 2 index registers, a program counter and a status register is a waste of silicon!

[Spacecadet]

Anything more than an accumulator, 2 index registers, a program counter and a status register is a waste of silicon!

Hehe

Some people I've worked with started progamming at a time when instead of having a PC on your desk you had an ashtray.
Only the lab guys had physical access to a/the computer

[NotAllThere]

Anything more than an accumulator, 2 index registers, a program counter and a status register is a waste of silicon!

Ah, a 6502 man.

[NotAllThere]

What processor do you think was in the Amstrad CPC range of computers?

3 years too late.

[Churchill]

Ah, a 6502 man.

[Spacecadet]

3 years too late.

Give me a chance, I was 7 when the CPC464 was launched (and not much older when I wrote my first program)