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Published: 2014-01-03 00:18:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 6241; Favourites: 103; Downloads: 118
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Description And another snapshot from Season 4 Episode 4 "Daring Don't".

I've always been wondering how non-unicorn ponies in Equestria do all that fine manipulation stuff. Especially the concept of hacking terminals in Fallout:Equestria was always a mystery to me: How would such a hoof-friendly terminal look like?
When I saw the answer actually being delivered by the original show, I was laughing my ass off. It's just so hilarious, I had to do it. It was only a few days later that I found out that these binary typewriters had their first appearance already long before in Season 2 "Ponyville Confidential".

As always: Free to use, SVG is here.
I used Inkscapes snap feature a lot in this one and even "Align and distribute". Wow. Tell me if you find something that could be done better/quicker/more elegant.
[edit:]fixed some stuff.
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FreshlyBaked2014 [2017-11-10 01:48:05 +0000 UTC]

fav.me/dbt9maj

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Permutator [2016-03-02 03:14:58 +0000 UTC]

I used a modified version of this as the illustration for the fifth chapter of a story I'm writing on Fimfiction . (Though I made it into a teletype, so I had to remove the best part. ) Just thought you might want to know.

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dervonnebenaan In reply to Permutator [2016-03-03 03:36:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the heads up.

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AmrasFelagund [2015-07-10 02:30:43 +0000 UTC]

Well, if they write in Morse Code (Horse Code?), that would really explain why their type seems to be a lot of squiggly lines; it's just a representation of dots and dashes!

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BlueRav3Pony [2015-05-13 01:33:17 +0000 UTC]

Used in my review www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a-Ehj…

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dervonnebenaan In reply to BlueRav3Pony [2015-05-13 16:42:49 +0000 UTC]

Hey, thanks for the heads up! I like it when people find my stuff useful. That's actually why I do this stuff.

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BlueRav3Pony In reply to dervonnebenaan [2015-05-13 17:55:50 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. Yeah, vectors like this are really helpful in videos.

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sweetannabee [2015-01-19 00:07:06 +0000 UTC]

BEHOLD! THE MOST INEFFICIENT TYPEWRITER EVER! THIS TYPEWRITER GIVE YOU THE LUXURY OF TYPING BOTHΒ THE NUMBERS 1 AND 0!

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Versimer [2014-09-23 20:45:27 +0000 UTC]

www.phispace.net/lj/Super_Code…

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dervonnebenaan In reply to Versimer [2014-09-23 21:05:28 +0000 UTC]

Great!^^

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Decimix [2014-04-23 22:00:12 +0000 UTC]

I can't believe I never saw this before. The idea of Littlepip hacking away on this piece of technology is hilarious, no matter how improbable.

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BrutalityInc [2014-04-23 12:50:05 +0000 UTC]

I always imagine that the ponies' typewriters work by Morse-code, or some variant thereof.Β 

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SomeRandomMinion In reply to BrutalityInc [2014-04-23 13:17:04 +0000 UTC]

Seems like it would be a right pain to type with, though--get the rhythm wrong for just a bit, and not only do you make a typo (FAR more annoying on a typewriter than on a computer!) but you have to resume typing out the "code" mid-line or even mid-WORD, which could be jarring.

Thank God, Allah, Buddha, and Zeus we have hands! XD

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dervonnebenaan In reply to SomeRandomMinion [2014-04-23 19:22:09 +0000 UTC]

Don't forget Celestia!

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SomeRandomMinion In reply to dervonnebenaan [2014-04-23 19:24:41 +0000 UTC]

[Of course! How could I forget her? ]

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delarosadylan [2014-03-10 06:12:58 +0000 UTC]

I am very sorry dervonnebenaan for me copying your picture of a typewriter I'm trying to learn how to digitally draw and im so proud how well I drew isΒ Β typewriter I really want to show my friends so can you forgive meΒ Β 

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dervonnebenaan In reply to delarosadylan [2014-03-11 22:13:38 +0000 UTC]

The description says it's free to use. And if I say so, I mean it.

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delarosadylan In reply to dervonnebenaan [2014-03-12 04:10:55 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Jdueler11 [2014-02-28 23:53:51 +0000 UTC]

Looks more like a Morse code typewriter.

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dervonnebenaan In reply to Jdueler11 [2014-03-01 00:27:10 +0000 UTC]

. . . ..-- .--.

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Jdueler11 In reply to dervonnebenaan [2014-03-01 00:58:36 +0000 UTC]

EEE?P

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dervonnebenaan In reply to Jdueler11 [2014-03-01 05:37:55 +0000 UTC]

Eeeyup.Β 

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Jdueler11 In reply to dervonnebenaan [2014-03-01 05:48:30 +0000 UTC]

Okay. But it's really ". . . -.-- ..- .--."

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dervonnebenaan In reply to Jdueler11 [2014-03-01 18:09:04 +0000 UTC]

That's strange. According to Duckduckgo's morse converter, both versions have the same result.

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WhellerNG [2014-01-30 19:55:48 +0000 UTC]

Realistically, typewriters for pony hooves would be the size of a teacher's desk.


Of course, most of the target audience doesn't even know what a typewriter is. Let alone be able to figure out what a desk sized keyboard typewriter is.

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deli73123 [2014-01-29 22:56:37 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha! I wonder how it works... I mean, it wouldn't be able to type more than two letters unless there was some complicated thing they did with it... I dunno.

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SchwarzerRitter In reply to deli73123 [2014-08-17 13:16:21 +0000 UTC]

I guess they work like morse code. You push the keys 1 to 5 times to tell the machine what letter you want and pushing both keys at the same time writes the letter.

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deli73123 In reply to SchwarzerRitter [2014-08-17 15:29:30 +0000 UTC]

That sounds fairly reasonable, but it'd be pretty complicated xD

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SchwarzerRitter In reply to deli73123 [2014-08-17 16:04:24 +0000 UTC]

Still less complicated than binary.

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deli73123 In reply to SchwarzerRitter [2014-08-17 19:45:46 +0000 UTC]

True.

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F0xridley In reply to deli73123 [2014-01-29 23:12:13 +0000 UTC]

Maybe Daring Do knows binary.
01001011 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00101110

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dervonnebenaan In reply to F0xridley [2014-01-30 11:21:47 +0000 UTC]

Eeeyup, kinda like that too.Β 

Another idea would be that these are not simple buttons, but rather Digit-wheels that can be rotated to select a letter and then pushed to type it. Similar to the rotating interface in "Beyond good and Evil".

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deli73123 In reply to F0xridley [2014-01-29 23:25:37 +0000 UTC]

What about the pony who types the school paper?

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F0xridley In reply to deli73123 [2014-01-29 23:47:45 +0000 UTC]

Maybe binary is part of standard Equestrian education.

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deli73123 In reply to F0xridley [2014-01-29 23:51:13 +0000 UTC]

Or maybe they just have a binary system of typing that isn't at all the same as our version of binary.

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Pilot231 In reply to deli73123 [2016-09-28 20:23:53 +0000 UTC]

Like depending on how hard you push the key depends on the character that's typed onto the paper?

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