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Mechanical Pong

Posted by timothy on from the pronounced-the-same dept.

RotJ writes "Some crafty Germans have created an electromechanical conversion of the game Pong: "Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components." Talk about analog retro chic." saccade.com adds "This amazing device faithfully re-creates the classic original video game with pulleys, wires, motors and a (pre-chip, pre-transistor, pre-tube) relay based computer. They were partly inspired by Konrad Zuse, who created some of the first electromechanical and electronic computers."

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  1. High quality mirror by momerath2003 · · Score: 5, Informative

    High quality mirror of the movie in case of the likely slashdotting

    It's very cool. The video is in German with English subtitles.

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  2. Movie Mirror by chrispyman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Incase of a slashdotting, here's a link to the movie of Mechanical Pong in action!

  3. Zuse stuff... by Goonie · · Score: 5, Informative
    Slightly offtopic, but if any Slashdotters ever visit Munich, you can see a replica of Konrad Zuse's Z3, and a Z4, at the Deutches Museum, probably the greatest technology museum in the world.

    They have so much geeky stuff there you could spend three or four days there and still not appreciate it all. There's captions to most things in English, so you don't have to speak German to get a lot out of the place.

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