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> he made barcodes which encoded control keys to see how the computer behind it would react.

Crazy, I didn't think that was possible, turns out at least Code 128 can map all of US-ASCII [1]. Wonder how the control characters translate to keyboard keycodes internally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_128



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