Aarseth very simply defines cybertexts as textual machines.
A machine does not have to be a computer, it is merely (or only) a procedure to allow different 'texts' to be produced. The "I Ching" is a cybertext, for here you throw three coins and use a table of symbols (six continuous or broken lines) so that any query can produce on of 4096 possible 'texts'. (Though if we include the question as a part of the text then while there are 4096 responses there are an infinite number of texts.)
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