Mechanical Pong

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @05:21PM 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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GMail Invites... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 17:23 · Score: -1, Troll

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1. Re:GMail Invites... by Hobadee · 2004-09-21 18:30 · Score: -1, Troll
  
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Re:Funnily enough... by networkGhettoWhore · 2004-09-21 18:14 · Score: -1, Troll

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