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(...) Man, I laughed so hard when I saw that picture!! I printed a copy of it and hung it up on the refrigerator. That's me trying to crack a smile. :) Naw, we were talking about roadsign confusing in New England (especially Massachusetts) and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Place you bulk order here.. (Was Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!))
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Here is a rough rough draft of the revised letter to Lego. I figuresd I'd just throw out my company name to see it if helps. Who know. ;-) Please take a look, add thoughts, critize it, laugh at it, fill in your wants, or just ignore it. I've alsawy (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Yes, I know. I'm one of them! :) (...) Yes, I know this too. My point was to use a large scale "bulk set" purchase as a means of getting enough parts to show as a proof-of-concept that something like this could work. The idea would be to then (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I would think that there is some lead time on the sets, so knowing what is currently available might not help us that much. Knowing what is coming NEXT is probably where we would need to be, since those are the sets that are currently in (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Space Ship on Web: XG-48i
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(...) -- Mark Nelson Speedy's Lego page: (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Neat! I've transmogrified! Wow. I'm being mistaken for intelligent people. That hasn't happened before. ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My point (well ok, one of them) is that I don't think this is an extreme case. If I said "who wants 500+ macaroni bricks in the color of their choice?" How many hands do you think would go up? 5? 10? I'd guess even more. (...) Again, I think (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) Your secret stash, eh? Sorry to spoil it. But it was such a great find for me, so I had to brag online. :) (...) I'd rather not deal with shipping stuff right now, so you can do this. (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Taun Tauns
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I hope I spelled that right, but anyway, I was thinking about what new Star Wars sets I would buy first, and I noticed that the two Kaadus from the Gungan Patrol set look like they could be converted to taun tauns fairly easily. Now I might get a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Keep those movie titles coming!
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(...) This is Victorian era suggestion, and may be impossible to find: Royal Flash. Malcom MacDowall as Sir Harry Flashman and Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismark. From George MacDonald Fraser's book of the same name, which is something of a twisted (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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(...) great. (...) work, (...) Thank you everybody for all of the feedback! Since everyone apparently liked it, I will get better pics this weekend, as well as pictures of a few more microfig things. Greg "I wish they would stop saying, 'deputy dog (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | FA: 40 Lots of Lego on SeriousCollector.com - many Going!
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Thanks for looking - be sure to check out the Airport Shuttle, the Club Cars, and the MetroStation! Click here for more details: (URL) Currently 2556 Shell Model Team F1 Ferrari MISB $40.00 8062 Technic Universal Set with Storage Case NIB $60.00 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | JDH Auction 4 - Shell / Soccer / Kelloggs / Value Packs / other unopened sets
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ALL sets are now SOLD! For anyone who has finished bidding, PLMK your mailing address and shipping preference, and I'll get a final price to you. OTOH, if anyone wants set up a trade as payment, please ask for my wants list! All sets are in mint (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: H8 tools problems on Linux
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(...) I've compiled LegOS under RedHat 5.2 without problems. I recently upgraded to 6.0 and I still have no problems. Have you downloaded some odd version of gcc or binutils? I've experienced problems when compiling gcc 2.95, but they can (easily) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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(...) I don't think so. The trains are driven by a transformer after all. (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) I wasn't there for both days, but the times I was there, I had a total blast. The best part was meeting great friendly people and putting faces to names finally, and seeing LEGO designs like Jin Sato's MIBO and the NELUG Star Wars models "in (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Here is a simple example where 32 bits isn't enough precision. Task: Given a robot with at least one motor, rotational velocity sensors [1] on each motor and a light sensor, implement a program to compile statistics on motor speed and light (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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(...) I also live for Oreos and Dr. Pepper. Oh yeah, and the Simpsons. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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(...) And yes, I realize this! (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Microfig-scale heavy worker mech [DAT]
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Hey folks, Here's a microfig-scale heavy worker mech. Scale is roughly 1:115 -- a 2x2 brick would be 6 foot square (or 36 square feet) on the top; a person can be represented by a 1x1 round brick topped by a 1x1 round plate. I came up with this (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Yeah, but like Steve said, I don't think you'd be building up to that point. I think you'd be building up a relationship as another small-time Lego retailer who would have little if any better chance getting them to switch to bulk ordering (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: rare mini-fig?
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(...) That strategy can backfire because people will purposely *ignore* you when you purposely ignore the NG topics. Don't worry; everyone will see it in .general -John (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Well, this isn't fully compatible with what a lot of us want, and as Larry pointed out, this adds more work into the process that doesn't really have any value. If you want to be the one doing the grunt work, more power to you, but most people (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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(...) Alright. Just an idea. I was thinking in particular of <URL:(URL) -- *gasp*, actual acknowledgement/support of user groups. I realize that we're not TLG's target audience for a lot of things, but they _have_ at least acknowledged a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: rare mini-fig?
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(...) This was the first set I bought that brought me out of my dark ages:-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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This sounds something like the other message that I posted last night. (...) there (...) send (...) you (...) Remember that to get TLG to work with us, we need to be flexible. And we need to start getting a group want list with alternatives. Jodi (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) And as if he hasn't suffered enough indignities in this thread, I spelled Michael Gasperi's name wrong. Memory OK, but verification of facts better! At least I was able to help him secure one of the coveted "MindFest Staff" tee- shirts. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Mike's Train and Launch Command Auction Update 7
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ADVANCING STARTS TOMORROW! Any items not bid on in the next 24 hours will advance to going once. 1. This is a Once, Twice, Sold auction. 2. To bid send email to mdarnett@nycap.rr.com. I will try to post updates daily. 3. Minimum raises: 0-$50 by $1, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Well, people already ARE doing things like this. I buy sets that have some parts I want but also parts others want. But I'm getting tired of it. If you want to keep doing the buy/sort/auction/sell thing that's up to you, but you'll never be (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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I would recommend against such a thing. sounds unprofessional. TLG may only find such request for contact annoying and see it as coming from a niave view. It also may just support their vision of fanatical young men who live for toys and sci-fi. (no (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I'll be posting pics and my opinions of them when they become a reality. For things like this, minifig weapons I'll probably never see produced again, I don't have a problem at all with "artificially" creating them. (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) I'd like to mention several other people (not on Eric's list) that I was very pleased to meet/meet again at MindFest: Dave Baum Ben Erwin Bob Frankston Michael Gaspieri Ralph Hempel Fred Martin Markus Noga Kekoa Proudfoot Mitchel Resnick I'm (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) NNNNOOO...OOO!!!...!!! Someone found my secret stash! There were 23 of these at the start of the year. I've bought four. I have kept hoping that they would lower the price further (all 23 went unsold until July, when they did an inventory. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) That may or may not be true, though. I remember reading several accounts that indicate that TLG makes just enough of a part to fill the need for that year's sets. So just because a certain Model Team truck has a couple of train doors in it (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Another AT-AT site
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Shaun, First, I want to applaud your obvious dedication. Your AT AT is even better than I had hoped for, and I'm not saying that lightly. You obviously have the knack for capturing the "soul" of the Starwars Vehicles in Lego. It goes without saying (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Yes, well, you're a brick-mangling heretic, so.... :) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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(...) Hi Paul, I don't know how the handyboard is protected against overload but one thing is for sure : if you overload the driver chip ... this one will fry up.In worst case you'll fry the board as well. If a driver chip's maximum current is 1 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) See, we don't have that much to contribute. Maybe $20 quarterly or something. And I don't think that all 32 members are likely to even participate. Which doesn't make quite as an exciting curve, but could probably still be helpful. (...) Yeah, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:000101bf1f27$4d...@pro150... (...) Hrmph. Ralph, how do you think I feel. I was left out too and it was implied the panel was all software. At least Wired has a quote from the audience member in (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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It won't necessarily fry the chip. L293s (and the TI equivalent) have a thermal protection mode. If the chip gets too hot, it will turn itself off. Most of the time, this protects the chip against over-current. However, it is still possible to fry (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) I'm interested in a couple more of these, and would offer you $60 each for them to be shipped to me, you get to keep whatever the difference between that and the actual cost with shipping. (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) NO! (...) Like any club, members could have guests but you would be strongly encouraged to join. Plus if you wanted to go by yourself you would need a membership. (...) People will always have personal property, and I'm not sure anyone would (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Yes, amusing. But really, part of the problem was that we didn't want to scare people off -- that's why Eric didn't want to have signs at first. I guess we underestimated the lack of respect people would have. (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I don't know if they'd like that. Standard corporate behavior is to be very wary of stuff that is offered for free. What if they start to sell a pack based on your part list, and then you sue them, claiming that they "stole your idea for a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Hey, if you do this again next year, I can fix that problem. I'll wear black combat/duty style boots(which I hope to be getting for my 16th bday when I can become a jr. firefighter), then I'll get some black cargo pants and wear the boots over (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) Hey, if you do this again next year, I can fix that problem. I'll wear black combat/duty style boots(which I hope to be getting for my 16th bday when I can become a jr. firefighter), then I'll get some black cargo pants and wear the boots over (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) just (...) this (...) Yes, this will obviosly not work in such extreme cases as this. I am sure that there are plenty of cases for which it WILL work though. And my point was to build it up to the point where it COULD order your parts directly (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | BayLUG Train Gathering...
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Hi Gang, I'm just back from two weeks in Japan with a JR "Green Car" pass. Lots of quick train sightings from Shinkansen trains...and lots of fast shinkansen blowing through stations. Very little chance to get into train yards on foot, due to a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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First of all : congratulations with the VERRY LARGE Star Wars models !!!! superb,cool,waw, .... (...) at (...) I displayed also once in a technical school (open door day's - only for 2 afternoons !!) and i got some moving parts as a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | something nelug could do
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Ok, so here's something we (or other LUGs, for that matter) could do: try to arrange a slightly-formal meeting with an actual representative of TLG. We could show them stuff we've done and talk about how immensely huge the adult lego fan base is, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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(...) and please make some .dat files! :) Jeff "That is definitely not a common spell!" (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) Yeah, I've thought about this. Downsides that come immediately to mind: - what happens if someone leaves the group? do they get a portion? - what happens if i don't contribute? am i a second-class citizen? can I still play? - people are just (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Reigonal User Group building centers
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(...) My only nits about this are: - Storage of pieces outside someone's home could get pretty expensive. Where could the needed square footage be obtained cheaply? Hmmm... Perhaps in a dedicated long-term storage unit? - Storage of pieces inside (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Keep those movie titles coming!
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I am going to post a list of the greatest adventure movies that could be related to the Lego Adventurer line on Friday. Give me any titles you might want considered. Also remember that I am specifically looking for those movies that relate to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Does anyone think TLG would listen to some simple bucket or accessory pack requests? In other words, I am suggesting we actually compose a few bucket distributions, and a few accessory packs -- literally listing the part numbers and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) in (...) to (...) Hey Julie I finally found it and emailed the author for a scan. Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it. Mark L (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: LEGO Droid Devel Kit TV Ad
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(...) I saw that later on this morning on Channel 4, I quite liked it - the R2D2 mindstorms robot actually looks quite good dancing to the funky disco music. No actually, that sounds just too surreal, maybe I dreampt it? Richard PS. Much better than (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) you're right. and "princess bride" has one of the best swordfighting sequences ever caught on film, to boot. "young "frankenstein" is my personal favorite of brooks' films. another good funnny adventure film that i saw recently was "Start the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Instructions on building Jonathan's "Hank"
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) I thought you had suggested it, it must have been Steve Bliss. (...) of (...) I guess I was wrong about this. (...) Indian/Southeast (...) strong (...) added. (...) As always listening to you Bruce is like listening to the Gospels - everytime (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Lego event in Glasgow
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(...) It's only a 12 min train journey for me, so I'll wander along :) If I work out any trades beforehand then I may bring those, or do you mean to bring something to show? For the gift thing I'm thinking of between 100 and 200 normal bricks, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Reigonal User Group building centers
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After Mindfest and in particular the NELUG meeting, I'm wondering if the Reigonal user groups could set up building centers. The idea is to pool resources to enhance everyone's building experience. Other obvious benefits would be: - pooling (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Yeah that's what you get for picking a weird old-fashioned obscure computer language. *grin* (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) Maybe I am crazy but the power search on today's date 10-25-99 gives nothing about a 1999 UK catalog. I find plenty of robotics and star wars articles, but nothing like what you are describing. Please give any more advice you might have. Mark (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Dark Forest FOTW
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At the Glendora, California Wal-Mart I was browsing the LEGO aisle when I happened to look up at the top shelf, where they usually have extra stock of what's on the normal shelves.. well, much to my surprise, I saw about 8 boxes of 6079 Dark Forest (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Sample chapter of Jonathan's book online now
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sample chapter of Jonathan's book online now
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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I have been recently (this spring) been rescued from the dark ages by the release of the Star Wars Lego sets. As I explained to my wife (aka - tried to convince her to let me spend money on legos ;-) ), it is kind of like the old Reeces cup (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Sample Chapter of Lego Mindstorms book online now
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Hi all, O'Reilly has just released a new book on Lego Mindstorms Robots, that provides tons of excellent tips and ideas on how to take your Lego Robots further. Check out the first two chapters in the serialization of "The Unofficial Guide to Lego (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Current Projects?
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(...) The AT-PT is from the Old Empire, but the tech was used to design the AT-AT and AT-ST. AT-PT stands for All Terrain Personal Transport. I believe it is from some of the books and it is also in some of the video games. I think I have a recent (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Gag.....Oh, okay, I'll withhold judgment until I actually see anything from this theme (when and if). At least I won't have to buy another white brick ever again.... Bruce (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: rare mini-fig?
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Crossed to general? Shawn, Here is a link, one of my favorite sets! :) (URL) are a few others, but this is my favorite! Scott S. (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) I haven't seen this in years, but whoever suggested it was right on. Sean Connery and Michael Caine have both said it was their own personal favorite (that was a number of years ago, so they may have new favorites). (...) The only reason to go (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | RE: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Except me, I seem to be the invisible panelist in the Wired article. Hrmph. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) (There were in fact _lots_ of important people who didn't make Eric's list. I don't think he was trying to be comprehensive and certainly didn't mean to leave anybody out. There were a lot of people there, and I doubt anyone had time to meet (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) RTL's (...) Try a power search, located to the right of the search button. You can type in rec.toys.lego under forum, and you can also choose what date you would like to read posts from. You can leave the other areas blank, they are optional. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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(...) Hi Paul, I think it would take out the chip, but I am currently doing this by installing a oversize heatsink & fan to the controller chip and pulsing the motor instead of constant current. Exceeding the max current capacity but, limiting (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Adventurers in 2000?
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(...) Thanks for the proposed honor :-) Unfortunately that is all I know. I would bet decent scans will show up very soon, since this info was spotted in a UK Lego Club magazine. Try going to (URL) and type in rec.toys.lego and todays date to read (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) Yes -- I sat at the table with them at lunch once, and can verify that they appear to be mortal humans, despite evidence we've all seen to the contrary. :) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Current Projects?
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(...) week! (...) Pardon my ignorance- AT-PT? What is it and where can I see a picture? Chris (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: I need help
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(...) ??? RTL has no homepage, as such. You could check Deja.com at: (URL) last time I tried, finding a specific newsgroup such as rec.toys.lego there is about a simple as replacing the clutch plates on a '91 Escort, and less enjoyable. Plus, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) There is one obvious drawback to this option: I want 5000 2x4 light blue bricks. Another drawback is that I want 2000 2x2 orange tiles. That would be a $90,000 investment on your part to be able to fill my entire order. I just don't think very (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I'd pay upwards of .20 per brick for tan, brown, light blue, purple, and clear. The train windows don't apply to me. But, my hottest commodity is roof peaks - of all kinds. I lust roof peaks. Especially in less common colors (i.e., just about (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | rare mini-fig?
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i know this isnt buy/ sell/ trade, but i wanted to reach as many people as possible. I have a very old mini-fig and don't know what set it belongs to- the body is a white tank top with a red truck on it. the face is the standard smile, but the eyes (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) here (...) This is all starting to sound like an elaborate version of Auczilla combined with Jambalaya. Now, instead of Todd buying sets and parting them out, someone would be collecting everyone's bricks they don't want (for a price), and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Current Projects?
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Hey, anyone working on any interesting Star Wars projects? My vast construction yard is trying to construct an AT-PT. 'Tis coming along suprisingly well, and I probably would've finished last night, if my inspiration hadn't hit at 11:30pm. Stupid (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Lego on sales at AMES starting wednesday
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I received a flier in the mail for Ames' "the Biggest The Best Toy Sale". 72 pages of nothing but toys! There is a whole page of Lego. Sale runs Oct 27 - Nove 23 Lego Sets: 4990 Rock Raiders HQ - $59.99 6456 Mission Control - $59.99 5986 Amazon (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: MOTOR DRIVERS
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Answer it'll fry the chip Question? Why would you even want to do that? (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Skapa en användarförening - SWELUG
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Eric Hampusgård skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Låter väl inte så dumt. Det svåra är väl att motivera föreningen, vad skall den vara bra för. vad skall man göra i den etc. etc. (...) SCANLUG? (Eller tänker ni bara på korv då?) LAN - Lego Användare i (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Nya modeller i BlockCAD-galleriet!
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Tobias Möller skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Jag brukar bygga så långt det går med BlockCAD eftersom det går fortast för mig, sedan får man fixa dom slutliga detaljerna/rotationerna i LDRAW (MLCad). Du har väl sett MLCad av Michael Lachmann förresten (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) This is what I would propose. If we are looking for spicific parts, the first one on my list (and Larry's too I guess) would be a train window and door. I -don't- care what colour (I'd prefer gray, but...as long as I can get 200-300 of the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I disagree. :) Like Larry, I think that a business case for exactly what we want needs to be developed. If we go to TLG asking for wholesale purchases, they will simply treat us like a small-scale retailer, and that is (IMHO)a road that leads (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Exactly, Gary- A few pitchforks today, which can obviously be ignored by TLG as insignificant, but the IDEA will be planted-- in *our* heads. And once our silly blind loyalty/pure LEGO dazement is over, then the real trouble for TLG will (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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Not bad for an international connection. I'd rate it as "tolerable." I've scanned 3 pages, but the images are crooked on two. I'm going to cut the binding on my Constructopedia, and re-do the scans, then 3-hole punch them (I've got a binder full of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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<trimmed original> (...) true, (...) and (...) Shop-At-Home), I (...) Why TLG has services packs at all is not a question I can answer. I don't know. I could guess but I would probably be wrong. I agree if they expanded the service pack options I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | I need help
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Can someone out there be a good Samaritan and please give me the URL of RTL's homepage, you know the one they post daily news on? I would be forever indebted for you kindness. Thanks, Mark L (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Lego 236 Garage
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(...) I have put together the garage from pictures on the box (1 side + 1 flap) and an old catalog. However, I am not sure how the back wall of the garage looks like. The sides of the garage are not exactly same(different set of windows are used). (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I think that if we got enough want lists like this, we could put something together buying just current sets. With a cross reference of set parts lists, we could determine which sets would have the mix of parts most requested by fans, and then (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Homebrew Sensor Workshop Slides
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I converted the 42 Powerpoint slides to HTML and they are now on my page. There is a some loss in this conversion, but I'm just about at the limit of my web page memory and I can't afford to give the images more resolution. Most of the material is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Does anyone want any boxes?
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Simon Robinson <simon@simonrobinson.com> wrote in message news:010f01bf1dc1$f8...sco.net... (...) Possibly some of the Space ones. What do you have? (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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