Why binary and not ternary computing?

[olalonde]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/764439/why-binary-and-not-ternary-computing

[Frenchgeek]

http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm

and

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tunguska/

I've seen a few more recent declaration of building one, but most of it without results.

So I guess we use binary mostly because our whole toolchain is designed to work that way. And people aren't very motivated when it come to reinventing the wheel.