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Hi, I purchased an Eltec 442-3 Pyroelectric Sensor from acroname. I know pin 1 is V+ 5V but I don't know how I should connect pin 2,3,4 to my handy bord/expansion board. I want to use the sensor for detecting people and/or candles. How do I connect (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Updated web pages, Metroliner Monorails Pics
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(...) website b/c it is against my company's acceptable use policy. The policy basically prevents looking at porn. I guess I'll have to look at it from home. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bluewater offers
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Scott-A wrote in message ... (...) Is it worth joining this? Or can I get information better via www.lego.com & Lugnet? Scott A (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: fried memory
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it might not be permanently dead, but if it's not, it's not working. one (or more) of the outputs of these two chips is probably shorted to ground or shorted to +5v. the chips get hot when they try to drive this output to a state other than the one (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Windows 2000 (fwd)
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(...) I'm working on W2K compatibility, though for my day job. RC 2 has been dropped and RC 3 is not expected out until sometime in late Oct., more likely Mid. Nov. RC 3 is usualy the last release cadidate that goes out before the last beta. At this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: anyone use DYA-Shopping?
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Me too. Carlo "Marco Berti" <arcmberti@dinet.it> wrote in message news:FK7J9p.KCL@lugnet.com... (...) and I (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Bluewater offers
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Scott-A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:FK7DxI.EFL@lugnet.com... (...) Yes, sorry. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Windows 2000
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On my W2K Professional RC2 (Build 2128), Spirit.ocx, NQC and RCXCC (the latest versions I found) works perfectly. Ciao Carlo "Laurentino Martins" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:4.1.19991026115...test.pt... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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What TLG is doing here would be like if ford said that we are no longer going to sell spare parts for the ford falcon and if you need spare parts then you will have to buy a new falcon and rip the spare parts from that. However the new falcons parts (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Explorien Starship #6982
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Sorry Ray, but I sell set 6982 for nearly 41,32 US $.... See you later, Emmanuel. Ray Sanders a écrit dans le message <380DE364.1306C217@gate.net>... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: anyone use DYA-Shopping?
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Hi My name is Marco Berti from Italy, I have bought several kits through DYA and I can only say thanks to Emmanuell for the very good service. Marco (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote... (...) In a CAD app you can paint it in any colour you like. =) But then, it's hard to print it out in ABS to play with. Sorry, just had to. *grin* // Eric (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: anyone use DYA-Shopping?
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Adam Payne wrote... (...) I read your message here and did just the same, an 8880 and a 5571. I know your question was put here in june, but never the less, I got my package today, everything in perfect shape. 3.000+ pieces of LEGO went my way! ;-p (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Windows 2000
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Anyone already done compatibility tests with the latest Windows 2000 ? I'm specially interested in Spirit.ocx, NQC and RCXCC. Thanks Laurentino Martins [ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ] [ (URL) ] Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) There are two of the part in brown in the set 7121 Naboo Swamp. John DiRienzo asked for the part in red, though. Fredrik (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) Yes, but it isn't red, is it? I don't think I have any red 1x1 bricks with five studs. Fredrik (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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Has any one mentioned Alain Quartermain and King Salomon's mines? What was the name of the second picture? I think it was something with "Lost City". Lot of Zulus there too. What about greatest Adventurers books? Christian (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Launch of new site: SimiLego
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(URL) is not fair. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Dutch Auction Experiences
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.... and I have more Dutch auctions planned already (3 tonight!) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Dutch Auction Experiences
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After seeking advice here, I went ahead with my Dutch 8880 auction. It ended last night. On the whole, I think it went quite well. They went for $115 each - I would have been happy with $90-$100. The only thing I did not like about it was that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Bluewater offers
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I take it you mean Lego Club memebership? Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Lego Creator soft ware
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Hi all I'm working on a large steam engine for my Lego trains. I heard that Lego Creator soft ware lets you designee with Legos. I was wandering if I could use Lego Creator to print out instruction on how to build this train engine so I could pass (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.games)
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| | Re: Skapa en användarförening - SWELUG
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Anders Isaksson wrote... (...) Jo, det var därför jag inte lade till det. =) (...) Local Area Network - Redan använt (...) Kul! (...) Asball! ;) (...) "Prusik på er!" är en hälsningsfras inom klättrarkretsar. Prusik var en schweizisk alpinist som (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Controlling two robots simultaneously
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(...) In the CyberMaster, open one of them, find the place that controls the radio frequence and rotate it a bit. My knowledge of electronics is ZERO but should exist some kind of knob you can rotate with a screwdriver. Remember that you must also (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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John DiRienzo wrote... (...) sides, (...) were. (...) There is a 1x1 brick with an additional 4 studs on the sides in the 5928 Bi-Wing Baron, used as a motor block for the 4 cylinders just behind the prop. I believe it's called 4733.dat, Brick 1 x (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) the parts (...) the black (...) they (...) Nope, I believe that you have hit it right on the head! As you so eloquently put it, their current line of parts packs suck! Not only can't people get what they want, but what they can get, they can (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Droid Devel Kit TV Ad
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Ben Rogers wrote in message ... (...) What's wrong with GMTV? (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Prisjämförelser
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Kul å se fler svenska aktiva på lugnet. Min gamla (norska) kollega på Sykes i Sverige har kollat upp Stor & Liten i Göteborg. "The Big & Small stroy checks out! 1995 for the basic set, 899 for the droid something. Cool! They even had it in (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: I've been offered a pirated set described as...
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(...) This is the part of the plot I was missing! (...) It just gets better & better. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: rare mini-fig?
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shawn tanner wrote in message ... (...) standard (...) lego (...) this (...) It's not unique to only one set. Several sets have this one, and two of them are 6660 and 6641. Selçuk (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Set Numbering Question
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(...) This was a limited release set and most likely was only available in the US. It certainly wasn't available in this part of the world (New Zealand). Limited release sets and promotional sets typically use 1xxx or 2xxx set numbers. Some of these (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Well, it seems to me that that is the problem-- that *no one* is buying the parts packs in the first place. If they were big sellers, surely TLG wouldn't discontinue them. Are we buying parts packs? I know I'm not, save for the black slopes, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Zach's third LEGO auction (update 21)
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All high bids made on or before 10/21/99 have advanced to GOING 1; those that were GOING 1/2 in the last update all have advanced to the next level. Welcome to my third RTL auction. It has been about 18 months since my last auction, time for (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Which set is this...
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#8855 is cool -breiler (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Regarding latest outerrim pictures
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Jeff Stembel wrote in message ... (...) Droid. (...) at (...) no (...) much (...) prototype (...) I think all of them are mock-ups or prototypes. They are looking like outputs of a color inkjet printer and the photos are looking like they were (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Gold City Junction figs
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Does anybody have Gold City Junction from the Wild West series? If so, would they consider selling two minifigs from that set that were only in that set: the banker, and the cowboy with the gray hat, blue shirt, brown vest, and brown pants. If (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: H8 tools problems on Linux
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(...) Hi! I got the precompiled tools from the LegOS page, tried with both the 'old' and the 'new' set... by the way, the Windows version works fine. Not 0.2.0, but that's not the tools' fault... thanks for all the help Vlad (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | fried memory
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I suspect that I fried my memory chip. The handyboard downloads Pcode perfectly, but when it tries to synchronize with interactive C, I get an error. While the board is off the 62256-12LP and the 74HC132 chips stay hot. is there a good diagnostic (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: by far rarest knights
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In general I think the rarest minfigs of all to find in good condition are the 78-83 minifigs with stickers as the yellow castle style knights have. But there are knights, wich are by far the rarest of all and wich are not mentioned jet: the knights (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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(...) I agree, atleast we finaly have real light sabres, not to mention smoked canopies, slopes, engines, wings, figs, guns ect... all these new elements come from these new sets. Anyways, what fun is it to build a Lego set, if it is already (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) I know if there is a Mindfest II, I WILL be there. I'll skip class, spend savings $$, do whatever to be there - cuz I'll be out of the house and at college somewhere :) I really wanted to be there this year but the ol parents put a kabosh on (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Why stop at Mindfest??
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Instead of hoping for another Mindfest. Why not start a "Lugnetfest". With all the people that post and read on Lugnet. I'm sure we could all put ours heads together and come up with a time and place. A whole weekend, or day event, with everyone (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: IntelliMouse Ripe for Hacking
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Hmmm, I like this. Anyone know how much and where I can buy one of these (Best Buy maybe)? Has anyone figured out how close to the surface it has to be to "read" it? I am also wondering if the angle of incidence matters? It would definately be easy (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LDraw pieces printing
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Sorry for not replying sooner, but I had to re-format my hard drive for the second time in a year. Anyway, assuming LUGNet actually lets me post this time, my parts catalog can be found at (URL) this helps, --a signatureless (due to the web (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: IntelliMouse Ripe for Hacking
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(...) I've had one for a fortnight now, no complaints apart form not having one on each computer. (...) They are nothing like the old optical mice which required a special mouse pad. I have even tried it on the cat & it still works fine. I dont (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pricing and stuff
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Santosh Bhat wrote in message <3813BA17.F875384E@s...edu.au>... (...) All true enough. I'm only a CA (and that's just between you and I, alright?), but the whole GST thing does not look like a happy day. our prices are a dan sight more than just 22% (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Re: Nautilus
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Mark Lindsey wrote in message ... (...) Impervious to shot? Harumpf. That's the kind of claim I'd like to test from the quiet end of a hot cannon. (This might turn out to be a fitting epitaph, no?) The only thing I have ever encountered that's (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Roarke's Drift (Zulu)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Zulus (...) Ok ok. A quick surf tells me it was 139 v 4,000. Maybe it just felt like 40,000 ;-) Has anyone modelled African warriors? Richard Still baldly going... Speak to the Governor at (URL) pi++ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) their (...) of (...) Pete, Unfortunately, I can confirm this as I have already find this out during my push for bulk ordering. One of the people I spoke with at Shop at Home, who now no longer works there, told me that it is "Company (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) I'll probably do the same. The real knife in the guts was that my source said "Lego are only targeting kids", ie. to hell with us AFOL's. Over two decades of loyalty from me is rewarded with a kick in the teeth. If anyone is up-to-date with (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) If that's true then look for a big auction after it's confirmed. It might just be my entire Lego collection. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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This does not bode well for those of us considering approaching TLG for MORE availability of bulk parts. Troy Peter Callaway <pcallaway@bmcl.com.au> wrote in message news:FK70F8.IKL@lugnet.com... (...) some (...) Service (...) facial (...) Standard (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Chief's Tepee
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I think you can still find this set around if you look. I have seen it at Toys R Us for $14.99, I believe. Also, if you have a Grocery Outlet store (they have the rainbow logo) down there, they may have it in their toy section, also for $14.99. The (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Some disturbing news
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I have just returned from visiting TLG's Australian office, and I have some rather disturbing news. I was trying to find out if there was a chance of getting parts (quite a number of them) which were not listed in the meagre 1999 Australian Service (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) might (...) What would be next, common sense in web design? :-) Mike (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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(...) Yeah! Then when we're done and LEGO hasn't sold any, they'll throw their arms up in the air and say "Hey, obviously there is no interest in Star Wars legos... let's scrap the whole line!" I don't know about you, but I'm grateful for what I can (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Set Numbering Question
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Today I received a set I won on eBay. The set is 1896 Trauma Team ((URL) ) and my question is around the set number. Pause shows this set as part of the RSQ911 theme but all of the other RSQ911 sets are in the 6XXX (6389, 6511, 6531, and 6593) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | collection for sale
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I have decided to sell a part of my collection... Here is the list. I would like to sell it in bulk for 1800 Canadian dollars. Unfortunately, because of the size of my collection, it was not possible for me to keep the boxes. E-mail me for other (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Babylon 5 ships
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(...) No no no, it's a STEALTH wedge. *nods* And I'll have to agree, the design of the Excaliber was very poor. CL (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: It works! iMac and RIS
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] <Grump> I have Virtual PC 3.0 on my G4/400 (at this moment). It used freeze almost every time I put a CD in, currently it won't even boot. I have no faith whatsoever that it will work on MY machine. I'm getting my money (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FA(eBay): many parts lots - rock raider, ninja, star wars, more
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24 black rounded top bricks (URL) Adventurer professors (URL) Adventurer bad guys w. top hat (URL) treasure chests + treasure! (URL) rock raider "feet" (URL) Raider printed parts (URL) palm trees, 2 large, 3 small (URL) Star Wars grey ion cannon (...) (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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(...) Logic alone would seem to dictate that it should happen, if for no other reason than you ought to be able to convince some S@H manager that you're saving them a good bit on shipping by ordering a lot of items at once. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Microfig 928 Galaxy Explorer
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Cool model. How about some larger picas and a .AT file? Greg (...) G. Crisp - gcrisp@mindspring.com (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: something nelug could do
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(...) Acknowledgement is something the company may find neccessary, whether the outward stance be true or feinged. I'm not holding my breath for anything more positive (and true as well). I think your Palm organizer example is a good one in that, (...) (25 years ago, 26-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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| | Chief's Tepee
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I am looking for the chief's tepee set from the lego Indian series. If anybody has it and would consider a sale, please e-mail me. Thanks. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Help with combining RCX and trains...
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Thank you sir. That told me what I needed to know. You must cut the plastic... ... but I can't cut the plastic! You must cut the plastic... ... but I can't cut the plastic! You must cut the plastic... ... but I can't cut the plastic! (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Expansion Board and Smooth PWM
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I really need to know how to get all my files correct to run both the expansion board and the smooth PWM routines at the same time. I downloaded both zip files but am unsure which files to use. Did I miss something on the web page where it says how (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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Thanks for all the great pictures guys. The two AT-AT's are amazing. So when is one of you going to try motorizing an AT-AT? Considering the weight and balance issues, that would be some challenge. It would be something to see! And it would impress (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BayLUG Train Gathering...
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(...) I will be coming with all my track (still not much) and about 30-40 train cars. I doubt that my train station will even be close to ready, so it will probably remain at home. I plan on running two loops. This time, I will bring the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Well, wrong and not wrong. Bulk order accepted at 6 cents, yes. You, no. They allowed me to make such an order, but then I was told that none of the items were available. My order was for almost 150,000 elements for a total of just under nine (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Datsville is filling up!
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(...) Did it ever come out? -John Van (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Utah Legomaniacs group name nominations
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Hey Utah Legomaniacs, Here's a list of nominations so far on what to call ourselves. If you want more into the mix, please reply to this message. Let's cast votes on, say, sometime Wednesday? From Ashley Glennon: NUTLUG (Northern Utah Lego Users (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| | Re: Problem with POV-RAY
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(...) I know l3p doesn't do .mpd's, and I suspect l2p doesn't, either. Use M-Peedy to break out the .mpd file, then run l2p. -John Van (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Name voting (Was: Utah name dicussion: lug or no lug)
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<380F62B0.82E1709D@io.com> <slrn80uv5v.k7v.matt...ia.bu.edu> <FK6rK1.6Fx@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) LOL And I'm allergic to nuts! I love it. :-, We really need to start casting (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Nutlug? Was: Utah name dicussion: lug or no lug)
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I checked and Nutlug.org, .net and .com are still available. My worldwide google search failed twice (timed out). Ashley (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Name voting (Was: Utah name dicussion: lug or no lug)
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I've been thinking over the weekend about a name for our Utah group. How about... NUTLUG (Northern Utah Lego Users Group) I realized that all of us are actually in the Northern half of Utah...even those of you in Orem/Provo etc. Nutlug is now my (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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(...) So are you dual-booting to NT to use Photoshop or to Linux to use The Gimp? You can put together a second machine for next to nothing. I know, I just put together my 3rd machine. Got 'em all hooked up to my Cybex SwitchView, and away I go! (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) Yeah, for the really popular hard-to-find parts 500+ is a small number. I'd take 1000 in gray, green, and white right now. Oh, and black. (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) I do realize that our exhibit did not exactly mesh with the hands on focus of the event and that was explained one way or another to many people that asked about our exhibit. Plus like you say the proximity to the Construction Zone I am sure (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Current Projects?
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Um, I thought it was, I made a Z-95 in LEOCad and posted jpegs on my website, but noone has commented, so the project is halted. Right now I'm trying to get the Assult Gunboat figured out. :) (...) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- jmbrown@mines.edu (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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Correct me if I am wrong, but don't we already have a foot in the door? Didn't someone (Mike Poindexter?) post that we could get a bulk order accepted for $.06 per piece for the bricks available in the standard tub? It seems to me that that is an (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) As it happens, I discovered a black one today in the Gungan Sub I just built. It has four studs (one each side) and one on top as usual. <ICS> (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | High praise for TLG after seeing 4288 bucket for first time
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Dear LEGO, It seems there has been a lot of TLG bashing going on lately, in several threads, in various newsgroups. I must admit, I'm as guilty as anyone when it comes to making complaints about the current state of LEGO. So I thought it only fair (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The city uses some loose track pieces and virtually all of the monorail track of 3 6399s, 2 6990s, 1 6991, 5 6347s, and 2 6921s. SimiLego now links to a mostly complete set list. Glad you liked "PlastiCity". My wife and I actually combed (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) It can be a very hard ballance to strike. I know, having been there, done that from both sides. I've exibited since I was 7 or so (rallied a steam traction Engine when I was 9 for 3 years). It is so hard to strike a ballance between "don't (...) (25 years ago, 26-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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(...) Na, all you need to do is call on the RCN. I'd be -quite- happy to show up, even in uniform (that always gets looks, even at school, where we are in uniform 4/5 days...) I could even build a model of my ship (using white instead of gray (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) or (...) AirSpeeder (...) Do keep in mind that you/we were presenting at a place where "hands-on" is a primary ethos. In most of the exibits adults and children were encouraged to touch, experiment, and create. The proximity to the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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I'd like to add my congratulations on a totally awesome display. I think you were very restrained in your dealings with the less respectful public. I'm very posessive about my Lego and other hobbies, and my young nephews and nieces know that Uncle (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: It works! iMac and RIS
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(...) Speaking of RoboLab, Ben Erwin had a table at MindFest past this weekend with several demo-arrangements of RoboLab. I'd known from the screenshots that it was pretty nice, but being able to talk to Ben and ask questions and actually see the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: H8 tools problems on Linux
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Thanks for the plug, Jacob. I in fact have received a set of instructions for gcc 2.9.5, and began the work of integrating them into the HOWTO last night. However, I was interrupted and will not have time to finish the task tonight, so do expect gcc (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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(...) I edited this photo and put names on the different people. All should be correct, assuming Todd labeled everyone correctly. If there is a place that the image could be displayed, email me and I'll send it back to you. Ryan (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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I looked through my pieces for a red 1x1 brick with studs on all 4 sides, but didn't find one. Were such pieces ever produced? I thought they were. No one in .castle seems to have an answer, so maybe others can help?? -- Have fun! John Auctions and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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(...) I (...) Don't get me wrong. I don't think that would be the best option, just a humorous one. I'd go for the rope long before the SG idea. I can't believe the audacity of some people to do some of the things that Eric mentioned. Man, talk (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Homebrew Sensor Workshop Slides
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'SWonderful! Wonderful! OMG! I'm only up to Slide 3 and already a mystery has been revealed to me! (Actually it's obvious now, upon examination, to these almost (ha!) middle-aged eyes.) Fantastic presentation! I wanna be there next year! (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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(...) like I have some sort of glass eye. (see dscn1057.jpg). But it still needs some photoshop help! (I need another computer; I hate having to dual-boot to edit photos. *sigh*) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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(...) I am certainly not the best person to answer this question, but I did get the impression that the folks at the Media Lab were somewhat overwhelmed by the effort that went into organizing this amazing event. The turnout was apparently a little (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Problem with POV-RAY
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I have just finished my first POV-RAY of a SantaFe locomotive, a General Motors SD-75M, and am having a problem with it not rendering correctly. (URL) is a png file of the rendering. It was the only compression I could do and not lose significant (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) If I had the $50k, i'd probably try this route. I could even come up with a business plan (My best friend graduates in december with a business/marketing degree). But as I don't have the money, I think that what has been discussed here is a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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(...) Yikes! No wonder TLG doesn't want anything to do with us! Is there anyone in that picture without glowing red eyes? :) James http//www.shades-of-....com/lego/ (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: MF
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(...) Ok, ok, The MF IS a prototype, look at it. I think the MAT and the MTT look good. The MF looks to , well ordinary. This thing won't be out til July. That picture is probly one to a TLG supervisor for progress and development on the model and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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