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Typewriter Hacked To Play Zork

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 1, 2010 @04:11AM 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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Re:So basically by Abcd1234 · 2010-11-01 05:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

Instead of the Screen for the input and output they turned it to a piece of paper - which takes longer so it's not entirely practical.
Holy christ... you can tell how far Slashdot has fallen, as far as "News for Nerds" goes, when people are criticizing the *practicality* of something *truly* nerdy.