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On semaphores... There was a lot of discussion a long time ago on whether NQC should use semaphores to protect temp variables between tasks. There isn't an atomic test-and-set bytecode, so the only way I know of implementing sempaphore would be to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: 4536 Blue Hopper Car Source?
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Well, I hope they had more than just the 12 you mentioned, because I ordered 20 of them. They told me to call back and they would let me know how many I got, so I am assuming they are out now and just have to find out how short they are on their (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: same fig in three vehicles
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(...) Perhaps it is also linked to the Computer game from Lego starring the rock raiders? Anyway Mr vehicle guy is not the only one to score. Ms hoverthingies has four appearances (4910,4930,4980 and 4990). The rarest figs are orangepants and the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: apartments
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(...) couch (...) Argh! That's it. Next time I'm putting the furniture in first. (...) Hmm--Which stair? Nevermind. I'll check both and post a fix. (...) Right now I've got it set at 16, but a problem arises making multi-color buildings. For some (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | H & R Trains Show (Tampa/St. Petesburg area)
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Hi all, I'm back with a new PC and ISP and it's show time... The RobStorm Lego Trains Tour will be displaying and competing at the 37th H & R Trains Fall Show on October 1-2-3 (this weekend) in the Tampa/St. Petesburg area of Florida. The all new (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Gosh, that's a tall order. Y'know, you're going to send me back into hiding for quite a while. And I was just thinking of taking a break after coming out with my new creation. Maybe I should just loan you my testing machine.... -- C S Soh (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Ahhh I see now... DHL is the one with the flying trucks arent they ? As soon as I personally watch one of them land on my street, I will gladly send him the assembly( without tanks of course) Its hard to replace them since I dont live in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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You mentioned that some parts have a "0 CW-Compliant" tag. Could we do something to make this a standard? Because than I could read this tag in MLCad and make the drawing faster!!!!! Tell me what you think! Mike (...) John VanZwieten wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Greetings : ) Silly me, made it more complex than it was. Does DHL stand for "Delivers Holy LEGOs" ??... Thanks for the clarification. Anyway here is a link to several pictures of the assembly process. I will try to put together a parts list. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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(...) Wow. Well, I wish you well in this. I can't really bring myself to spend that much for them, but I bet some could. Now stickers, I think I could go for those. Wonder what it would take to have custom sticker sheets produced? Having to cut (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Datsville Construcrtions Steam Roller)
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(...) Well, I checked and.....you used the 20x30 wheels, *not* the larger 24x36. You *must* go LARGER, grasshopper. -John (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Using separate motor power source with Expansion board
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Hi all, I have just modified my handy board to work with a 12V motor power source without doing much modification to the Expansion board. If anyone is interested in doing the same, just follow the directions listed below. 1. Follow the direction on (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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Basically the problem is it is plastic and they have to make a mold to hold the torso's then they have to transfer the image you want on the plastic using a special type of paint or ink that will stay on the plastic, much like MotherBoards. Its not (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Designers Area on www.lego.com
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In the Technic Advanced section of www.lego.com there are new pages which feature the 8448 Super Street Sensation. One of the pages is called a "Designers Area". It says that starting November 1, 1999 certificates will be given for alternate models (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) i.e. 100% Pure Lego. (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Simple Angle Sensor
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Ok, I admit the last few sensors I've posted were probably a little more than most of you want to build. I was working on the materials for the Homebrew Sensors Workshop that I'll be giving at mindfest and I developed a very simple angle sensor (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | McDonald's Promotional Set
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Would anyone know if set #3438 is available in Canada? If not, could someone in the US order one, then send it up to me in Canada? I'd be willing to pay for the set, mailing costs and a little extra to compensate for all your troubles... Bryan (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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(...) MAX2DAT isn't really meant to be a comprehensive part authoring tool... it's easy to build simple objects (like a 2x2 tile or 1x1 round plate) directly in LEdit with primatives... but objects like complex technic pieces, wheels, etc often have (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New(?) part: rotation sensor 3/5 [DAT]
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(...) Dear John *Good* eye -- I don't know how I missed that (oh, well). Here is the revised version for further checking. Thanks for the feedback. Cheers JP 0 Electric rotation sensor bottom (unofficial) 0 Name: 2977b.dat 0 Author: JP Brown 0 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: RCX Controlled Air Compressor Tester
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(...) Well, sort of. As you can imagine, all my pumps and air tanks are already taken up in my models of Mike's and Ralph's and other compressors in order to carry out the comparative tests. Seriously though, if anyone has pneumatic parts they no (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Steve Bliss' Tree
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(...) The hardest part was keeping it skinny, and yet getting it looking "filled in" enough. The way Lego does (Lego do?) trees in the official sets makes for some pretty stark landscapes. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | FA (eBay): Cannon, BURP's, log walls, thick green bases, nets & cages
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4 cannon each with wheels and towbar (URL) large thick green bases, 12x24x1 (URL) light grey rock pieces (BURPs) (URL) brown log walls plus brown log 1x2 and 1x4 bricks (URL) ladders and shark cages (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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(...) Sanjay, I'll go grab the camera, and take a photo of them. It'll still be a while before I get the pics up (I have to finish the roll) but still... James P (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New(?) part: rotation sensor 1/5
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Thanks John -- got those sorted. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Brick by Brick Auction Update--G2
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Please Note: Sometime after 8:00 PM my site went offline. Until I can fix it, auction updates will be via e-mail. New bidders e-mail me at: brickbybrick@aol.com for auction rules and bidding info. I will e-mail winning bidders their total plus (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: [DAT Explorer] Feature request
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(...) Yup, there is: (URL) <==> lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) Howabout: UGLY - Utah's Gallant Lego Yearners Sorry, couldn't resist! (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: Is Classic Space really that fantastic?
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To answer the subject: YES! (...) Classic Space, literally and figuratively, represents a launching point from Town. It attempted to bring in some building innovations that couldn't wholly be incorporated into Town (at least Town of that era), and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Chess Minifig
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(...) And there's a newsgroup for the LEGO Chess game too: (URL) <==> lugnet.games.lego.chess --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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(...) I have no problem with canibalizing complete figs for legs, heads, torsos or headgear, I do it to my own minfigs all the time. But I found it incredibly rude to take hands and arms and not replace them. (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | This guy is looking to rent LEGO sculptures
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In a message dated 09/30/1999 8:08:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, information@mklpr.com (...) Can anyone help him out? (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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In lugnet.space, Steve Bliss writes: <cut> (...) Is the background environment necessary to displaying peoples' artwork? <cut> (...) Why the limitations? <cut> (...) Sounds like an imaginative way to segregate themes of models. Maybe some would like (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) That could work too. Maybe what should be in order is to start a timeline of the history of the Earth space travel, the UPO, and maybe what comes after it. Then maybe people's creations can fit into various locations in time and space. This (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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Anyone ever think about putting the RCX brain into a radio controlled car. Have the RCX control the speed control and servos instead of using the radio. It would be cool to try out a REALLY fast robot. If you could control the car once using the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cookies ?
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$9.99 Canadian ? What would that be, about $8US ? If so, then that make it an even better deal. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FIwC0z.8vq@lugnet.com... (...) as (...) know (...) next to (...) green. <rubs chin> .....ummm......I'd love to have a look at this plate...I can't remember any previous occurrence of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Cookies ?
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Thanks Oliver. I'll take that number down to WM tomorrow and see if I can stir up some interest. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Star Wars LEGO promo sets
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The first set was the press kit send out earlier this year for the NY toy fair. Only press types got a copy and was as you described with the sound chip playing the familiar theme. This was for the launch of the line at the toy show. One such set (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) I'm thinking a stock-only (or nearly stock- rotation and extra light-sensors are legit) version, so IR is out. What do you have in mind for smart programming? A simple back and forth algorithm, or something that has an idea of where it is in (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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(...) Well...they came in a regular town labled package, and are -not- the same as the runway pieces. These have a sidewalk, unlike the runway ones... My wife picked them up for me at a TRU in Vic, last christmas. I didn't know that they were not (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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Gary Williams wrote in message ... (...) Okay, I made a bad assumption there, since a group of polygons may terminate flush against another polygon, without touching its edges. But still I think a performance improvement could be realized by using (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | A Question,
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My brother just had a kid so now I have a nephew. Anyways how much Primo does it take to keep a "little one" occupied? I know its still a little early to be giving the kid Primo but I want to make sure that the kid gets started off right and would a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.primo)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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Jean-Pierre PARIS wrote in message <37F3B871.74AE196F@w...doo.fr>... (...) My algorithm doesn't require the vertices to exactly match; I was intending to pass one ray per polygon through the dat object, not an arbitrarily large number. And only if (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ok, I'll post the first message.
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(...) Well I believe that John G was talking about hte last Twin Cities Great Create which is held in the Hurbert H. Humphry Metrodome, which is a baseball/football stadium with Astroturf on the field, not a smooth surface at al. Mike (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.primo)
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| | Fremont Library not available in December...
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Sorry for the delayed responses. Lots to do, planning for the first moves into the new Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, which begins Friday, 1 October. I've been running pretty close to the ground for a few weeks now. So, The room isn't available (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: *** PANEL 2409 ***
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(...) Ok, but I'm 95% sure that's where I grabbed the copy for ldraw.org originally.. :) Downloading now... -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More Southern Fest pics and new website
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(...) Ha ha Simon's pictures are still on the film sitting in the camera owing to (1) Simon wants to use the remaining few shots on the film to get some other piccies for his website (2) Simon's book, Professional ADSI Development is scheduled to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: More Southern Fest pics and new website
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(...) Ha ha Simon's pictures are still on the film sitting in the camera owing to (1) Simon wants to use the remaining few shots on the film to get some other piccies for his website (2) Simon's book, Professional ADSI Development is scheduled to go (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) (curiousity! :) What exactly is "Wasatch"? Is it a part of Utah, or does it go beyond Utah? What do the Linux LUGs in Utah call themselves? I'd see WA, by the way, and immediately think Washington (as in state and apples), but maybe that's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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HI everybody I think this would be a GREAT idea. Lego Racing......wow!!!!! However Would you need to use the 8448 or could you just build a car from the ground up! i think that this would be even more of a challange. Come to think of it i think i (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | JDH/UK Auction 4 - Shell / Soccer / Kelloggs / Value Packs / other unopened sets
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All sets are in mint unopened UK boxes except where marked with '*' - see Details section. Please note my revised bid increments for this auction - see Rules section. Lots ==== 1747 Pirates $3.50 Barry C 30Sep@22:38BST 1749 Aquanaut Paravane $3.50 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | JDH/UK Auction 3 - trains
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The two main sets consist of the train, track and engine driver only, i.e. no passengers, loads, platforms, road vehicles, etc. The speed regulators are available at no extra cost if required (240VAC @ 50/60Hz), but they will obviously increase (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Problem with this code
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(...) There's no standard for code organization, but indeting seems pretty common. "tidy.exe" from (URL) is great for organizing code in a readable fashion (it can also standardize capitalization, fix illegal HTML, etc.) My only complaint is that it (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: *** PANEL 2409 ***
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(...) I'm almost positive that the ldraw.exe at: (URL) include those updates, so Tim, please grab a copy. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) We're playing with WALUG, for Wasatch Area LUG. I think, though, that the best one is WAFOL, or Wasatch Area Fans Of Lego. It has a nice breakfast-y ring to it... :-, (...) That's just a whois query? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Liam Parnell (<99093012333600.018...rrender2>) wrote at 11:31:59 (...) It's a nice idea. Do you want to go for beauty or height? (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Idea for building activity at NorthWestFest
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Richard Franks (<FIvI0w.4y5@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:43:44 (...) Those of us who were at LLW, and indeed the staff, were in awe of Liam's tower building prowess :-P (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | LEGO Town Quiz - Answers
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Below are the answers to the questions I posted a few days ago. Feel free to disagree with any of them. 1) Which was the Widest town vehicle produced? #6675 Road and Trail 4x4. (Note the question related to "town" not "LEGO System". 2) Apart from (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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(...) Sounds great -- wish I could make it, but it's a bit of a walk for me (from Boston :) BTW, dunno how your naming plans are coming along, but last week I ran a script to look up which .org domains were available matching the form (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) This could almost be a challange. How about marking up a circuit by marking the curbs with black tape. Then let the car race around trying to map the circuit and find the way through. After a coupple of laps it could finish "learning mode" and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 and some math questions
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(...) I think that if you do something like this you should use a semaphore to secure no tasks access y and z simultanously. But that wastes another variable storing the sema. (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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(...) What about adding a real combustion engine and control the throttle with the RCX? This would indeed add a new dimension to LEGO... (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FIw4r3.KCx@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) Those would be the airport runway plates that were available from 1990. They appeared in sets 6396 "International Airport" and 6597 "Century (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) Ian, I was very impressed with your post. I sent it on to a good friend of mine that works for the company that handles the marketing for Mindstorms. He put on the LEGO Robogladiator event at the E3 convention that happened in Los Angeles some (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) Via e-mail, simply use the Reply-To mapping... That is, If you're posting via a newsreader, then set your headers like this: Newsgroups: lugnet.foo,lugnet.ba...ugnet.gonk Followup-To: lugnet.gonk and if you're posting via e-mail, then set your (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) And I thought that my 5 hour drive to Toronto for a minicon (mini convention) was bad... Charles (Fenton, MI) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) My point is, where do we draw the line? We are dealing with creativity and imagination. Who is to decide what is allowed and what is not? I certainly don't want to be the one who does it. All I care about is having a place where I can showcase (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Why are SSIs bad?
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(...) If you're the site admin, there's not a security problem. The security issue is with letting your _users_ use SSI, because those commands execute as the user which owns the web server. Which, if you don't trust your users, is a bad thing. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) Not by a longshot. (...) Although it doesn't really fit the "fun" in .off-topic.fun, it does fit .off-topic.fun far more than it fits lugnet.general (which is for general LEGO-related topics). .off-topic.geek or .publish would probably work (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Official catalog of part numbers
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From memory the internal parts catalogue system is made up of three components: 1) The catalogue which shows images of all 2000 or so parts broken down into themes and further into "classifications". 2) A second catalogue which details the colour (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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I believe that you can add (even via mail) a "Followup-To: lugnet.general" to your message headers and it would do what you wanted. (...) I would like to point out that I think what we all want isn't adult legos, but rather sets that don't insult (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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I can understand the partial minifigs - if somebody wants a black witch hat but has no use for an entire witch it's silly for them not to leave the rest of the fig in the box. But if people do trades like taking all the non-yellow hands and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) Depends on where we want to go. If we want to set up a framework for a believable, interesting interstellar society, we've pretty much got to allow FTL technology. Even practical sub-light drive technology is way out there. (...) There's a lot (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Trains, Technic and Space!
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Hi, I have the following sets that I am considering exchanging for 9volt train sets or selling. 7735 7745 7857/8/9 8865 8842 6970 6980 . With the exception of 6970/6980 the sets are in good to very good, hardly used condition. Some boxes available, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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Don't worry, Ed. If that box ever comes my way, I will be sure to relieve it of the air tanks and put in there something more pallable (SP?). Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Utah Legomaniacs Get Together
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Hey all, We Utah Legomaniacs are forming a lego user group! Joseph Gonzales, my wife Barbara and I are looking for anyone and everyone who would want to attend a small LEGOfest at my Orem, UT residence, on the evening of Friday October 15, 1999. You (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LEGO Town Quiz
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(...) Just as a comment towards this: Not allways true. I have 2 plates that are green, 7 stud wide, and are new. I did not repaint them either... Some sort of oddity I guess... James Powell (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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Hi all, IC does'nt load my *.icb file. Why? I wrote this code in a *.asm file: TFLG1 EQU $1023 ORG MAIN_START subroutine_initialize_module: ldd #IC3_interrupt_handler std $FFEA cli rts variable_right_clicks: fdb 0 IC3_interrupt_handler: ldd (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LUGNET Roll Call
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LUGNET Roll Call September, 1999 Name: John Gerlach Gender: M Year of Birth: 1962 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 8 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota E-mail Address: john.gerlach@bestbuy.com Homepage: none Marital Status: single, unattached, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: The Sad State of Minifig Box #1
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After sorting through the box, I was able to assembly some complete minfigs (most of the heads are not original and only 1 of the helmets has its visor): 5 Wild West black bandits (4 missing scarfs), 3 Willas (1 missing a hat, no capes), 4 red Ninja (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) <clip> (...) <CLIP> I agree 100% with Wayne's point here. Lets just build and view each others' models. If Person X makes a station that doesn't dock with Person Y's ship, then it is either up to Person X, Person Y, or a third Person Z to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Tabs in web interface (was: Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?))
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(...) Nope, it doesn't! Tabs are actually preserved. If you do a "view source" on this... (URL) see that tabs are actually output correctly as "	" HTML entity sequences. It's actually your browser which is converting the tabs to spaces, but it's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Compressors, Valves, and Other Wishes
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I have some solutions for this on my website in the 'pneumatics' section. CU Bert Lego robots and artificial intelligence (URL) Compressors, Valves, and Other Wishes (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lugnet Roll-call
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Name: Jeremy H. Sproat Gender: Male Year of Birth: 1972 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 7, going on 19 Location: Orem, Utah E-mail Address: jsproat@io.com LEGO/home page URL(s): (URL) Status: Newlywed for more than 2 years and counting Children: 2 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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(...) This would fit really easily within a simple (non-monolithic text file) database. Are there any plans to do so? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
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Most of the demographic info that Ian suggests we collect is part of the roll call form. I'd suggest people post or update their forms rather than reposting this info... Here's a searchable entry point: (URL) Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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I'm not sure what all the hubub is about regards what is or isn't "allowed" into someone's design. What is our "Current Space Technology" anyway? We (humans of Earth) can build (with a whole lot of agument between nations and corporations) a space (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) It's definitely something to be decided. (...) Yep, make force-fields possible, but too expensive to be practical. (...) Oops. The world gov't deals with issues throughout the Sol system. Maybe there are colonies on other planets, but other (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) That's true -- in terms of effort on the part of the doners, it's the best way to go! Much easier than donating, say, a kidney. :-, (...) Eh? I saw no spam coming from you, sir. I'm reconsidering what I said eariler -- I no longer think you (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: apartments
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(...) This is a cool building. I did see some problems, though. First, the couch floats a plate off the floor. Two plates (1x1, 1x2) in the stair sections are not seated under the rest of the pieces. Also, I think the stair color should be changed (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) As far as donations go, I'd certainly agree. But they didn't require anything from me... I tried it before posting it (one would hope I would!) and it was simply a single click-- no cookies were dropped, no forms to fill out, no information to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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Hello, Ok guys, I already announced that I coded such a tool in Java. At present, only one Ldrawer has asked for the code. In fact, it's an alpha release. Thus, I should find beta testers first. Anyway it has already translated some pieces! Here is (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego in the UK
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(...) Hey, Ben -- thanks for the heads up...I won't set my expectations too high (unlike my trip to Cincinnati earlier this week) I don't suppose you'll have a chance to check out the Kent province(Canterbury, Dover) anytime soon? :-) Paul, who is (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) But Jules Verne typically made few assumptions about technology in his novels. He took those few assumptions tried to see where they would take him. Contrast that with "Sci Fi" which has faster-than-light drives, artificial gravity, devices (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) You've been spammed, but I don't think directly from the Hunger Site. It's not cost-efficient to spam guest books. They also have a disclaimer for exactly this kind of thing: (URL) I haven't been hit, and I'm a member of both the Legomaniac's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Chess Minifig
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(...) Looks like he's the same one as the little bag set that came with the throne... think someone was looking for that not too long ago on RTL or LUGNET... But yeah, he looks kinda cool... maybe I'll try and pick up a chess game just so I can (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Is Classic Space really that fantastic?
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I have never owned a Classic Space set, so maybe I am the wrong person to say this, but here we go: I have alwys loved space. When I found the Internet and all the exciting space stuff there, I was very excited. Escpecially over Classic space. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Hunger website
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(...) click. (...) I had the same thing entered into the guest book on my website some time ago. I haven't removed it yet, but feel that I've been violated by a spam. Has anyone else been hit by this website? And could this be a result of farming (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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(...) Hrmmm.... maybe it's the miniaturization that makes it so expensive. Silk screening t-shirts is one thing, but silk screening a shirt not even an inch square may be something entirely different... Maybe it's so expensive for the same reason (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The LD environment (or, Datsville in Space)
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(...) So since we are going to use a technology that is only plausible by today's standards, I'm assuming that FTL speeds are out of the question since that is mathematically impossible. How far are we going to go with this one? I like to have a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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