I'd start by figuring out who it was built for. If it was built for humans like me, there's a good chance there's some language on earth it understands, so I'd probably try different variations of "help" in different languages
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The keyboard and screen it has would help a lot here. The keyboard, assuming the keys are labelled traditionally, would provide some answers
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Unicode tty goes a long way to instilling confidence.
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Look for a phone # so I could yell at tech support. Though first I would have a need to do something with it. What's my problem? Doing taxes? Unlikely in this scenario. I would just mash buttons and document the results. Find patterns I could look up on Stack Overflow.
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Reboot, try to glean something from the boot output. (And then commence traversal of whatever infospaces, physical or virtual, are available..)
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"wut" works as an opener. If you don't get some kind of error: Run. Away.
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Depends on what you mean by figure out. What do you have in mind?
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learn to talk to it and eventually program it
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Input short commands, make a note of the frequency of each type of unicode characters in the output. Then try random commands using the most frequent characters.
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This is really good.
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