Lost Generation: The Relay Computers
My favorite "lost" type of computer is the balanced ternary machines. These were actually built in the Soviet Union in the 1960s:https://dev.to/buntine/the-balanced-ternary-machines-of-sovi...Programming with trits and trytes!Unfortunately, domestic Soviet computers were effectively killed by a 1970 decision to base all future efforts on a "Unified System" which was really a clone of IBM System/360:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVMPlaying it safe by shooting yourself in the head...