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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2020 04:56:15 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun [wikipedia]
The Setun was a [trinary] computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University.
I suppose this was the one my high school algebra teacher (who had worked for the US space program as a mathematician) told us about. He described it as way ahead of any of the binary computers that were being developed in the US at the time.