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Typewriter Hacked To Play Zork

Posted by samzenpus on from the old-school dept.

UgLyPuNk writes "Typewriters that can type by themselves are one thing. Typewriters that can type by themselves and play Zork are totally different — the stuff that dreams are made of (at least the dreams of little girls who spent hours in front of a Commodore 64 telling the machine to GO NORTH and such)."

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  1. Yeah, But... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but...can it display Kindle books?

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  2. Re:Flash 10 by Enderandrew · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

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  3. Re:So basically by jrobot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society. The fact that this guy bought paper from Canada and wasted vast quantities playing Zork put an extra spin in the global economy, and that extra spin lifted capitalism to yet greater heights. If you put an end to all the waste, mass panic would ensue and the global economy would go haywire. Waste is the fuel of contradiction, and contradiction activates the economy, and an active economy creates more waste.