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----- Forwarded message from alex wetmore ----- From: "alex wetmore" <alex@phred.org> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 (fwd) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:21:15 -0700 From: "Jim Choate" <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> (...) RC3 is the release candidate for the (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) I wonder if a traditional company such as Lego would respect a traditional approach like petition-writing. You could easily get the signatures of a handfull of people on the same piece of paper, and the rest of us could send the organiser our (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nautilus
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(...) Alright I concede it is doubtful that it is impervious to shot. Still you must admit that it is a cool looking vessel and is highly worthy of lego modeling. And I bet you can't use one of those firing lego cannons to sink my model. Mark L (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | MA #12 - Advances Begin in One Week
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Advancements for MA #12 will begin on Tuesday morning, November 2nd. (URL) MA #12 is an automated auction of 60, 000+ brand-new lego parts. * Bidding is handled by a specially designed auction program. - Easy-to-use auction interface with single (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Roarke's Drift (Zulu)
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(...) I have not, but lord knows I want to. If you find anyone that has and can get pictures let me know. I will do the same for you. I had thought to use paint and regular head and body pieces along with Islander gear, but something still seems (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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I think, if they made them, these pieces would have been in those under water boats sets (forget what that theme/sub-theme is called, but it has a lot of blue and red, and magnets, IIRC). -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) I'm just tired. If they're killing service packs entirely I'd say chances of them ever doing any kind of bulk sales are nil. I almost bought a few of the Castle DACTA sets once, but I honestly couldn't see much in it that I truly wanted. (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: Boycott the falcon
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Instead of Juniorized they could be cost cutting measures, one piece vs 5 or 6? Who knows....there are days I think we're (as in the older lego crowd, 20+) just thinking 'that's the way it was and we liked it' (Dana Carvey's Grumpy Old Man) when we (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Windows 2000 (fwd)
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From: "Jim Choate" <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> (...) regular (...) This shouldn't affect mindstorms however, since it doesn't use any special devices (it just talks via the serial port). I haven't used the Mindstorms software in ages, so I can't (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RIS 1.0 vs RIS 1.5
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I went to a local CompUSA looking for a add-on for Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri and was wandering around. Lo and Behold, I find a children's section of software with all the Mindstorm Kits! Including the new RIS 1.5. I just got my RIS 1.0 for my (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) Nope. No red in the Adventurers. I'm theme-complete there, and I don't have any. (...) Doh. Yes, I have these in dk grey too. Blue? Neat. Do you recall where from? (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) The Richard Chamberlain/Sharon Stone movies? Dreadful movies. Awful. Terrible. And I like Richard Chamberlain. Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. King Solomon's Mines. Golan and Globus productions: enough said to the wise. Bruce A (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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(...) You are right ... I will take some pictures of my "unique" figures and do a little table/writeup about them. Designing those guys alone is almost as fun as building structures (if not more fun for myself - I like to get lost in my little lego (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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(...) I'll pay shipping costs, no problem. I will also quite happily wait for overseas shipping. I think very few AFOLs will have any problem with a 'pay and wait' policy, because we're generally quite used to that in the second hand market. James (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) (at least as visible from thumbnails on KL's server)... of course I quite probably would have missed any that weren't obvious... Perhaps the Jungle Adventures stuff maybe? Anyone got more time than I do to do a more thorough job? I think the (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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Ray, You could be on to something. That would explain why the European service pack catalog has like 3 times the number of service packs in it then our does. If people want bulk, maybe we ought to contact them over seas and see if we can do business (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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(...) I have two thoughts/speculations: - Enfield only makes the highest volume parts. Below some production level, it is more cost effective to make the parts at a different factory and ship them to the other factories rather than each factory (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Pneumatics and the RCX -how?
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(...) if the number of mini-cylinders could be reduced by 10 by only using 1 on each leg (use 1/2 beams for bracing outside the cylinder) and maybe using single cylinders and links for moving the legs? The basic design has a wonderful symmetry that (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Updated web pages, Metroliner Monorails Pics
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(...) Do you know whats triggering it? I can change the URL or text if there is a word or phrase that is causing the block. -- Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | line-followers
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Hi all, I would greatly appreciate information on line-followers and oscillating DC wire-followers to use with the Handy Board. Which models are the most practical? Where can I find the specs and instructions for these models? What is the code for (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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There seems to be a disparity between the costs of bricks in the bulk tubs and parts in general. Bricks in bulk tub vary around 1.5 - 2 cents each. In general set parts seem to cost 10 cents (or higher) per piece on average. <Speculation> Could it (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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(...) "back"? There was such a thing as 3x3's???? And in CLEAR of all colors?!? DaveE (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Dark Forest FOTW
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(...) what (...) Just for any further lurkers, two people took me up on the offer and that's all in good conscience I can accept since this is dependent on the items still being available by the time the money arrives. Bruce (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Forgive my provincialism;-) So it's *Europe's* fault that slope parts packs aren't selling! Here in the States we have no use for red slopes. Now it's *our* turn. Produce dark gray slopes and see how sales go. ;John (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: mindstrorms in Nederland
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(...) De nieuwe blauwe Scout (pas uit in de VS, ik heb hem net meegebracht) heeft geen connector. Waarschijnlijk is dat de oorzaak van de verwarring, want het schijnt dat de RIS 1.5 qua hardware (de RCX) niet afwijkt van de RIS 1.0 Eric Brok (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | McDonalds Happy Meal Set information
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From the PR Newswire (which I follow since I'm a McD stockholder)... PR info on the new sets they're offering... (URL) to market.shopping ++Lar (in sunny Melville NY, Detroit later today, then on to MSP tomorrow and Thu) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Utah Legomaniacs group name nominations
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(...) I'll second this one. Matthew Miller makes a good point about Wasatch not being a term that outside visitors would recognize. Plus GULL makes for a cute inside joke, though I don't usually go for that kind of thing(1). PLEASE let's vote on (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Some, not all. My kids couldn't tell the difference between nintendo or tenelevendo;-) (...) ILYK Today is my son's 10th birthday and he's getting the 8448-- I wouldn't bet against him, though;-) (...) I think TLG knows that kids are (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Updated web pages, Metroliner Monorails Pics
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(...) Hmm. Gets through the one at my work just fine. Those security filters are full of holes anyway. (let things through they shouldn't, block things that are fine, etc) Nice monorail. James (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Star Wars Legos (aka The cure for the Dark Ages)
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James Simpson wrote in message ... (...) tried to (...) old (...) products, (...) I've been brought out my dark ages before the Star Wars Legos. What they will bring me out of is looking like my marriage..:-) Selçuk (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) Although the Star Wars may be fine in and of themselves (I personally have no use for them), it's the idea behind there being a Star Wars tie-in that's disturbing. If TLG doesn't have enough imagination to come up with its own Space sets (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ideas for a court jester?
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(...) I've got quite a few of them. As parts go, its somewhere between rare and hard-to-find. I've only seen them in black, grey, brown (recent) and white(I think?) They probably exist in other colors as well, but I haven't seen them. James (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: NELUG at Mindfest, A quick summary and more photo's.
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <3814d069.204035275@...et.com>... <snip> (...) to (...) many (...) <snip> Men, you are lucky, you know!..I wish I were there. How could I say much more than that?..:-) Selçuk PS. Even I live in a place thousands of (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 64K UPGRADE
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When upgrading to 64K, could that be done when still using Interactive C? By the way, what's the main difference between 2.8 and 3.X versions? Advantanges and Disavantages!!! Thanks, Paul (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Monthly check for MO fans
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I am in StL. Pretty far from Springfield. I think I have been through Springfield, though! Isn't it near Rolla, kinda? -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL abieler wrote in message ... (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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(...) So did I. There have always been many alternatives to Lego. When I was younger, you had Star Wars, GI Joe, Atari and Matchbox cars. (...) are (...) stop (...) action (...) driving (...) up a (...) I strongly disagree. So then I take it that (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Just STL? C'mon SPR!
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Are you still holding your breath? Don't feel bad, there aren't many (at least the last time I checked) from StL either. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL abieler wrote in message ... (...) (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.spr)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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Thanks Gary, I would like to join. If you people have any more info about this new Lego "club" please let me know. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL Gary Istok wrote in message (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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Missouri IS in the Midwest. Thats all I have to say about that. -- Have fun! John Auctions and Trading and More at my Lego site: (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL Christopher Weeks wrote in message <37E4FDBC.EEBBDAA1@e...se.net>... (...) the (...) West (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| | Re: Need ideas for vehicle
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OK, here's what I think is going to take place with my model. (all I have to do is start building now) I was playing with a recon idea, but decided to merge that with the story that Tobias had for a search vehicle. I also liked Tom's idea of a MASH (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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