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(...) I'll try to explain this with an ASCII picture, but I'm make no promises about the quality... Please use a fixed font (as you always should in newsgroups) Legend: #### - Lower part of the track (the part that touches the ground). OOOO - Inner (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Drab Box #1
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Can the order be altered: can I go after Tom instead of before? I'm looking for Tan. -- dave (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: WTB Train Parts
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I'll pay more than he will. :-) followups to .auction (...) 4.00 for blue, yellow or grey. I have enough black and white. 4 dollars for the red that you DON'T get in 5571, nothing for the one you do. (...) 4.00 for black and red, 4.50 for yellow, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Lego Hackers
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(...) Them's fighting words, Sproat. Forbes is in my top five mag list and the one I will snatch out of the hands of flight attendents when I get on airplanes. Now if you want to slam Fortune, fine. It's infected with the Time Warner reality (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MacFrugals
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You didn't take them all, did you? I want some 6406s ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | RE: Do the high resolution timers work?
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(...) Yep, you've got the parameters backwards. Try FFFF 0 timer_set. Also, I'm not sure about numbers above 0x8000... I'm working on a TclTk interface for uploading firmware images to the RCX and for pbFORTH scripts. I ALMOST have the comment (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: TIMER 0 is flakey
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(...) Looks like I'd better test this again, and maybe release 1.06... Sorry. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, So why am I sitting at a work station? ---...--- Reply to: (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Need treads
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(...) I recently posted a notice to the Robotics forum about the fact that KB Toys is selling the 8414 Mountain Rambler set for about $20 US, down from about $33. You can see a picture of this set at the following location: (URL) set includes a pair (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS and Markus in Forbes
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(...) (I guess I should have posted, instead of going to lunch! ;-) But there *IS* a URL...they just didn't put http:// in front of it, so your browser may have missed it. They mentioned Markus' site ((URL) in that same paragraph. (They mention (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Counterfeit Lego?
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(...) i happen to have some lego bricks in absolutly weird colors. never knew where they come from until a fellow collector told me that he has a friend who is working at a company that made the machines and mold. and they did lots of testing bricks (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Announcement: New jambalya...who wants it?
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Don't know if I am already on the list for this one or not, but I want on the list. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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(...) Because the wheel base length shrinks in relation to the turning radius. It is this distance that causes the friction. The further this point is from the imaginary circle that the treads describe, the more perpendicular friction there is. As (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Drab Box #1
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I want in on this one too, I have some tan to add to it, and need black. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Southern LEGOFest - 18th September
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John, are you planning on having a 9v train setup? It would be cool if we each bring some track and stock and build a mega-layout! Huw (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | I'm off to Billund on Thursday
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Does anyone want me to look out for anything for them? New trains perhaps? (that is assuming they are out there already) Huw (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego Hackers
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(...) It's perfectly understandable when you consider the intended audience -- mainly drooling misogynist marketing-dregree droids in terminally uncomfortable business suits who buy the magazines to look at the pretty artwork cluttered by all those (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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Paul, Great photos!:-) I had *just* gone to your web site to see if you had had anything posted. Thanks for all of the work scanning those pups. -John (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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(...) Why is this? The further apart they are, the greater r*cos(theta) is going to be for any given theta. Seems like that would make for more turning resistance, not less. (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Hackers
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(...) -Tom McD. when replying, it was actually a huge wooden spamcake rolled into Troy.. (1) It's too bad that magazines feel they have to make up their readers' minds for them. (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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