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Thanks Rob, I can add that to part 2, which will include the low sloped bricks. And then those service packs with the low sloped outside corner in red. There are a lot of interesting variations, that's for sure. Gary Istok (...) (25 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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Not quite sure what period you were talking about there - though you hint at early 70s. They had red apex bricks by the early 1970s didn't they? (URL) 1971) (URL) 1971), and (URL) 1973) (all in shallow slope) For medium slope, I'm there was a house (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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What I find curious about the slopes is that we had plenty of red slopes (they may have all been 2x2, I don't remember), but we never had any apex or other special slopes (I remember later in life noting that "gee, they finaly got around to adding (...) (25 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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Gary Istok: What about the old green 2*4 roof bricks my grandparents have? They look roughly like this from the side: |\ |\ Despite the look of the ASCII art, the dimensions are the same as of a 2*4 brick. The sloped side is "wigly" like a tiled(?) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Glass for Window 1 x 4 x 5 with White Stripes And Red Cross Pattern
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(...) IIRC, the sticker is designed to fit in the frame, not cover the entire piece. This is a holdover from when the first versions of the window had the glass glued in. Jeff (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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