D. THE BINARY SYSTEM Like virtually all digital computers, the ALTAIR 8800 per forms nearly all operations in binary. A typical binary number processed by the computer incorporates 8 bits and may appear as: 10111010. A fixed length binary number such as this is usually called a word or byte, and co
D. THE BINARY SYSTEM Like virtually all digital computers, the ALTAIR 8800 per forms nearly all operations in binary. A typical binary number processed by the computer incorporates 8 bits and may appear as: 10111010. A fixed length binary number such as this is usually called a word or byte, and co