Possible Clues:

• Like a yes-no question
• Base two
• Times covers revolutionary Iran in a sort of code
• Numbering system using only 1 and 0
• A kind of star system
• Reportedly pared nib back within a year.
• Code whose digits can be translated into letters, eight digits at a time
• Dispose of a line of 2
• Base-2 system
• Composed of two things