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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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| | 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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