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Well, I'm not crossposting this to .announce since I'm not really announcing, just relaying. I did try to call S@H several times yesterday, but got busy signals all day, so I assumed I was correct in assuming they were closed. Looks like someone (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Heh, one of my favorite pedantic pet peeves. "From from where" From down under. :) (...) Actually that would be kinda cool. Lemme see if I can feed them blue 1x1 bricks and have them produce 1x1 brown round plates. (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) From whence? (...) This would be a problem? Clarify! (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Version 2.1 of the RCX Command Center is now available. RCX Command Center is a Windows (95, 98, NT) program that assist you in programming the Lego MindStorms or CyberMaster robots. It provides a higher level interface to the RCX, the programmable (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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Jesse Long writes: <<<snif>>> (...) <<<snipped again>>> Is this why TLG is loosing money? Because people like us don't buy as many sets as we used to? Perhaps TLG will get the message... Mark "Town Jr.; Tim got a job in the developersteam of TLG" (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) Hard to tell in that image, but (URL) it clear, yes, that's exactly what I need. New thread: lost pieces that were once in production, but are no more. -- Steve Jacquot sj5w@virginia.edu (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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Mark Tarrabain wrote in message <36A4501C.248EF8CE@l....bc.ca>... (...) Little. It's the same process that's happening to the entire line. As I mention in another post, Lego is becoming an action toy that requires assembly, not a building toy that (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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(...) I haven't seen the new 1999 Technic sets yet, but I would say that the piece selection in the 1998 sets where very good. Personally, I would find enough pieces to build many interesting things using a few 1998 Technic sets. (...) But there is (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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You know, there doesn't really appear to be much in the way of LEGO for wannabe enthusiasts any more. (By the way, I'm thinking entirely on the Technic line here). It appears to me that every set these days seems to be geared towards developing a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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Last year, they gave me a free 6649 Street Sweeper and 6535, with no explanation why, they were just in the box with it. This year, same thing - extra 6649 and 6535 in the box. Makes it WELL worth ordering while they are still around, considering (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Auction: 8064, 8074, 8839, 8865 and 8872
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Hello, I'm auctioning five Technic sets. Set Bid Bidder Status 8064 Universal Set Starting bid $65 open 8074 Universal Set Starting bid $55 open 8839 Supply Ship Starting bid $65 open 8865 Test Car Starting bid $140 open 8872 Forklift Transporter (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: TLG is loosing money!
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Mark de Kock wrote in message ... (...) not (...) ol'days, (...) They're loosing money? I hope they funnel it into product development. Or maybe give me some... I think the fact that kids the world over are falling prey to the Nintendo syndrome, and (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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In article <13987.52974.46098.5...falo.edu>, Matthew D. Stock <stock@perdix.acsu.buffalo.edu> writes (...) Surely 34 10 0 0011 will subtract variables 10 and 11? (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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This morning, I read in the newspaper that TLG Denmark will have to "dumb" 1,000 of its 10,000 workers due to bad commercial results! TLG itself is not in great danger, but it has lost a lot of customers to electronic toys and computergames. IMHO: (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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In NQC, just say: task main { SetDatalog(0); } I freaked when I first noticed the flashing pie chart, I thought my batteries were about to die. No big deal, except that my Probe robot was half way through a three hour scan of the Thunderbirds model! (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
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I respectfully disagree for these reasons. First of all, one can hardly call an idea such as "motor with 6 large wheels" or "gentler curved rails" original. These are the kinds of things I'm talking about. Also, I point to Matt's scratch built (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Servicing cart [DAT]
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This model is one of several pieces of support equipment I have been working on for a model scene I am putting together. It is basically three pressure tanks on wheels, with associated control valving and such. The unusual thing is the use of a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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or in vb you would use.. if yer spirit.ocx has a name of pb in name property. pb.setdatalog (0) I think that is the right syntax.. -----Original Message----- From: Kekoa Proudfoot <kekoa@pixel.Stanford.EDU> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Off topic [was Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???)
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Why do you think the Fed is having the Mints print up an extra 50,000,000,000 US dollars this year? Because they know there will be runs on banks this year *possibly* due to ingnorance, _or_ *possibly* due to being smart. Time will tell... (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My own personal motherload of the month
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(...) That's a problem with cats - they breed too much. You ever see those news stories where animal control and the health department have to go into someones house and clean up several years of accumulated excrement? At least that won't happen to (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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