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John A. Hern Jr writes: > Yes, but note that they are not a technical college, and that they are > doing this to recruit minority students to fill a quota. Would you want > to be operated on by a medical doctor who got his degree based on how > well (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Brian B. Alano writes: > > > 2. The RCX clock seems to lose time, roughly > > (very roughly) a half hour per week. Anyone > > else noticed this? > > > > > PC clocks tend to lose time as well. 10 minutes a day isn't unheard of. > 1/2 hour per week is (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Maxim sells a chip that I have connected to the parallel port on my PC and it seems to work well. I got the design from an article in Dr. Dobbs. The article was on using Linux to collect data. The author of the article has a book which has the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Can anyone substantiate this law? Can you point to a reference to it on the web? I know model kits usually don't give piece counts, and puzzles give only approximate piece counts (your 1000 piece puzzle probably doesn't have exactly 1000 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd think it has an accurate crystal oscillator. (...) No, the frame counter in the ZX80/81/Spectrum (if yours is a ZX80 rather than 81, I'd like to buy it, BTW) simply counts the TV frames it produces. Those, in turn, would be about 60Hz in (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) A (...) Updated list: 1029 Tine milk truck 23 1183 farao 5 1955 Color Line Cruise Ship 55 2535 Shell Race Car 5 2536 Shell Water Jet 5 2537 Shell River Raft 5 2538 Shell Crossbow Flamer 5 2539 Shell Batwing Flyer 5 2540 Shell Fright Knights' (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) still (...) added (...) I'm working on similar measuring too. I'm getting quite stabile values, but quite noisy too... I don't know if it's the same problem (I'm reading the values in decimal). I've just converted "0x1F0" to dec... Too much, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I was wondering if anyone would be interested in an online LEGO parts & Inventory database... or if there is already one out there. If there's enough interest I would be willing to write a web-based database for it. I thought it would also be nice (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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Man, that was GREAT! Too bad it's so large, finding a permanent home for it will be tough. Maybe Todd or Kevin can host it? (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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That was very, very cool. I have a ton of space free on my webserver. Anyone mind if I trim off the commercial at the beginning and host it on www.marsrobot.com? Rich Thompson (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | 396 Thatcher Perkins
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I'm thinking of buying a small collection and it contains 2 Thatcher Perkins trains. There are no boxes and only one set of instructions(very tatty and taped). I don't want these. Would anyone be interested in them? I need to know soon(ish). (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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We want to know what you would like to see on the future KIDLUG. Check us out at kidlug.com and tell us what you think. Note, the support@kidlug.com email does not exist yet. Aaron (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.org)
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Awesome! Mind-blowing! Well worth the download time! I'd really like to see a 3D Castle Lego movie made with huge castles, story lines, battles, etc... <hint, hint Lego> Elliot Hyde <cross-posted to lugnet.dear-lego> (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Man, I can not get this thing to fully download! Does anyone have a really fast internet connection that would want to send me the file at: ebrouwer1@home.com? Please?!? Eric (...) etc... (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi, I'm a new member of Lugnet, and I've just scanned pictures of my LEGO city and posted them on the following web site: (URL) a pretty good-sized city with a host of different buildings and some train stuff. Check it out. I hope you enjoy it. (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks for the info, I tried setting the environment variable (running Win 95) RCXTTY=com4 without much effect. I did get frmdl3.exe to send out to com4 with the following: frmdl3.exe --tty=com4 legOS.srec However, dll.exe still won't send via com4. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hehehe.... I'm not interested, but I know of at LEAST 3 Lugnet "heavyweights" that would be ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Headed your way... (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Setting a different com port w/ frmdl3 and dll
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Ooops, Figured it out. When you set the RCXTTY variable, leave out the spaces. ie: set RCXTTY=com4 NOT: set RCXTTY = com4 The whitespace is not parsed out by the MS-DOS command line. Now that I have the frmdl3.exe and dll.exe recognizing com4, I'm (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
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(...) I think Star Wars and G.I. Joe are exactly why Lego is making so many specialized pieces. They are trying to compete with these guys. I remember as a kid back in the early eighties(82-83?), I started to get heavily into GI-Joe. Prior to that I (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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