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Yeah but I would want it to be bi-directional like a player piano.

Not just for input but output too.

(they must exist as they use something like that on Fringe)

thats so cool. cumbersome, but very cool. almost selectric
These are just shitty keyboards for affected gits.

This (with a usb-parallel adaptor) is a USB Teletypewriter: http://www.wabdo.com/fred/printernet/ (it's printing this thread: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16190/Print-Stylesheet-for-Me...)

It's my letter-quality (none of that dot-matrix garbage) NEC Spinwriter 2050 printer. I have several font wheels for it, though not the Futura one I covet. One of these days I need to set it up along with one of my Model M keyboards as a serial line terminal.

Someone needs to find a way to pipe a terminal output onto one. Then we can all use ed and be happy.