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Jacob, I have never heard of green Lego slopes with a "wiggly" slope before. Are they LEGO? Do they have the word LEGO on top of the studs? If not, then that should answer your question. Rob, have you ever heard of these? Gary Istok (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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Yes there were a lot of different colors available in the 1970's sets that I hadn't gotten around to yet. I kind of wanted to stay with the story up to 1972, but I got side tracked on the black slopes. Gary Istok (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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The JavaOne show, in June, had an interesting demo involving PalmPilots, Mindstorms, and JINI. Here's a detailed technical article about it (including source code in NQC 1.3 and Java): (URL) think you need to be a member of the Java Developers (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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Hmmm - very nice history. Thanks, Gary. That was very interesting. On point though - I think that bricks in colours other than blue, red and black appeared earlier than the 1980s. I recently bought a 386 Red Cross Helicopter, which I believe dates (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Scaling Buildings in Datville [DAT]
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I obviously wasn't clear enough in my original post. By "scaling" buildings, I mean using buildings that would otherwise be too large for Datsville, but down-scaling them in the town.dat file, i.e.: 1 16 540 0 -800 0 0 0.50 0 0.50 0 -0.50 0 0 (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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