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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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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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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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| | 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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | For JINI fans
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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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| | Update: Circle of 4.5V Gray Train Track
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The current high bid is $17--check it out (and the other auctions on Guarded Inn--thanks to Mike!) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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(...) I have a few copies of set 1082, a dacta set, which has equal numbers of red and blue sloped bricks in low and medium slope varieties. It includes apexes and connectors, inside corners, and inverted 2x2s as well. This set has a copyright date (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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(...) Merely when I waltz in with an entire tribe of 4-11 year olds (Taya, Nik, and all the first and second cousins won't fit in 2 cars) to let me pick and choose which ones I get. I imagine I'll be eating a lot of happy meals myself. In fact I (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| | rescinded: wanted: 1x1x2 and 1x2x2 blue windows
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Sorry, but I have to say that I no longer want these part...well I do, but scine the 1x1x2 blue windows apparently do not exist my plan to use both 1x1x2 and 1x2x2 blue windows in my train instead of 1x1x2 and 1x2x2 white windows has been scapped. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: which of these should i do next?
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(...) I'd say a house or two. I am working on a Shopping Center now, I only have one module left. I have an almost complete TV Station laying around also. Jeff P.S. I *really* don't think Datsville needs a missile silo, but its up to you... (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: CFD: Scaling Buildings in Datville
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(...) Do you mean having people redo their submissions if they aren't, say, minifig scale? I'd support having everything at the same scale, mostly so you don't have a Legoland Park scale building next to a classic scale building, as it really (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | FA eBay: Adventurers Promo & Pirates
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Currently on eBay until 19-Sep-99, all are new in sealed box/polybag: Non-US Adventurers: 1182 Raft of Johnse and 1183 King Pharaoh the 3rd from Germany (URL) opening bid 2541 Adventurer's Buggy and 2542 Adventurer's Mini Plane Shell Promos from (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New rendering/animation - Bram's Viper
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(...) Hey, now Bram can finally see a Colonial Viper flying across the screen! :) (...) Wicked wicked cool! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME BTW, what rendering engine did you use? (POV-Ray?) The lighting in the still shots is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: web page in frames
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(...) I think this is a demonstration of a perfectly good use of frames. Can someone offer a good reason why this site shouldn't use them? (...) Don't make it mixed. Make it so your links in the left frame are actually search queries. (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: web page in frames
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(...) Since the subject of frames has come up again, anyone want to make suggestions for the Elements Image Catalog site? (URL) It uses frames now. I can think of two straight-forward redesigns to get rid of frames. Does anyone have any other (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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