| | Re: The four types of markets (was Re: Reverse (buyer's) auction for train windows and other parts
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(...) wrote: (...) I would call both of these "standard" auctions simply because it's the buyers who outbid each other. This is true even for auctions where all the buyers bid at the same time (which I call "closed silent" auctions) because the bids (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Minifig box #1 shipping status
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I will be mailing out the box tomorrow morn, should make it down to Texas by Friday or Sat. We're pirate deprived here, so we dug into the pirate stash - don't worry- we left some. Taken: 1 red shoulder pad, 1 yellow shoulder pad, 2 green vested (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Robotics
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Hi All Anyone else in Perth got a Mindstorms kit ? If so any interest in sharing ideas etc ? Reghards Brian (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | FA (Bricks): Yellow Technic piece lot
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Another test lot arrives on Mike's new site! I just posted a lot of 81 Technic pieces, all yellow, including beams, half beams, liftarms, triangles, forklift forks, double and single angle beams, 1x2's with cross holes, and more. Check it out at: (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | 5571 mods - Ideas?
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After starting on a trailer for my 5571, I realized that an 18-20 stud wide trailer just won't cut it. I'm going to need a 22-24 stud wide 96-104 studs long) in order to properly fit the 2556 Shell Ferrari or other Technic cars on there. But (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Lego Expo at The Toy Connection [Chicago IL Area]
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It's about a 10 min ride from my house :) It's a pretty small store, actually, a very, very small store. I'm not the greatest at measurements, but I would guess the store is only 30 feet wide, maybe less. As of today they haven't been running any (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Expo at The Toy Connection [Chicago IL Area]
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(...) [...] I'm 99% sure I'm going to this. Is anyone else planning on doing so? If so, could you email me and we could arrange a way to identify ourselves etc to be able to meet face-to-face. *sigh* Crystal Lake is like a 40 mile drive from (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.general)
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| | RCX Image Uploader Wins Contest
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Hmmm - I just got emailed that I won the "Best Lightweight Use" of the TclTk programming language in a contest sponsored by Scriptics (URL) Here's the URL from Scriptics and if you follow the link to me on that page it'll take you right to my (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: 10x20 green baseplates
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Hello, Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in article <37C2B37A.EF723928@u...ch.edu>... (...) baseplates with (...) 1975. I (...) style (...) I'm not (...) old (...) (or (...) My hat's off to you Gary. You've answered my question and then some. I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: touch sensors aren't just switches (was Re: ideas for a RIS 2.0
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(...) The actual source of bounce is NOT the arc just before contact. It actually is the bouncing of the contact due to the action of the spring in the contact! Well, if you were switching a really high voltage through a small switch, you would get (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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