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(...) How a bout a big thanks :) ? (I'll leave out the "round" part until I'm more skilled at ASCII art) _888...888__888___88..._8888888__ _888...888__888___88...888____88_ ____888_____888...88..._88888____ ____888_____888...88...___88888__ (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: I need help downloading, please read
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You could try installing WinZip from www.winzip.com I have no idea why it Zipit doesn't work, but then I've never used it. Many thanks, Nick Allan ======== Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. (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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(...) Mid '60s to early '70s. (...) According to Garry's history, yes, that's the puzzlement I have, why had I never seen them til the '80s? (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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(...) As always, wonderful!!! Great history of the slope. (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Southern UK LEGOfest - update
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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:52:31 GMT, Jon D Hayward uttered the following profundities... (...) having thought this was last week, might still be able to attend. If anyone wants to see, I had rebuilt my Parthenon model, and can bring it along. (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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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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