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<snip> (...) Believe me if they are to be found I will find them tonight. If I have to read every last instruction book to find them. :-) Eric K. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) The Scientific American Unipod also had an off-board pewter. How about the related, simpler, problem of a balancing robot? It has one leg which is not stable by itself (rounded base, say). It has to balance on its leg, and recover from small (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Joseph Gonzalez wrote in message ... (...) still (...) Most excellent... Im looking forward to the smaller treads as seen in the '00 adventurer set to attempt the same type of vehicle John Battcock (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build)
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(...) But he's "King of the World"! <Duck & Cover!> Jeff (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, I'll quite happily admit that there's lots of interesting *parts*...I've gotten lots of them for parts!!! It's just that as a model, there isn't much to do. James (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Don't forget to check stuff you made, they might be hiding! I'm pretty sure 7151 is the set that comes with the reversed colors(1); have you checked the instructions? I know that there is a set that does, but I may be mistaken about which set. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: US S@H Specials Nov 18 - 21, 1999
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Hi Tom, Thanks for the information. I appreciate it, as I'm sure a lot of people here do. I do have one question: I just called S@H, and the operator told me that there aren't any S@H specials right now. Do you think I should call back again? - Dave (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Enhanced Search
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I'm surprised at how much I've used it today. It's so easy to find interesting stuff on ebay now, and without sucking their listings (which they don't like). (...) I can't think of a way to do that without creating a databse of sets, which would be (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'm gonna have to disagree with the "doesn't have a lot of interesting bits", but that's mostly due to my definition of "interesting" and "a lot". I liked the fact that it had: 2 sets of doors, dark grey wall sections, inverse red slopes, the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 2001 SW Lego
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(...) Get the Delorean out of the garage, rummage through the garbage can for some stuff to feed into the "Mr. Fusion [tm]" to get the 1.21 gigawatts, prep the hover circuits, fire up the flux capacitor, and let's _GO_!!! :-) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Gear backlash
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Take a look at Bob Fay's pages. He has done some amazing stuff on his milling machines. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, it is. I believe someone who went to the Georgia opening met and talked to the Manager for the Virginia Store. Also, one of the members of WAMALUG has spoken to the Virginia Store manager a couple times. Jeff P.S. Only Nineteen and a Half (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.va)
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| | Re: US S@H Specials Nov 18 - 21, 1999
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(...) This one is sold out already. The lady said there were only 35 of them to start. /Eric McCarthy/ (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Ahhh... You are almost as evil as me! Keep up the "good" work! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Jeff (Yup, another one...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) If you want to start getting involved in the castle theme then I would recommend 6097, because 2 years down the road when you're looking at that old 1998 catalog dreaming of that Night Lords Castle to add to your other castles it may not be (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Lego Store Opening in Virginia
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(...) Hi Jeff, Is this an actual LEGO store, similar to the LEGO outlet store that recently opened in Georgia? Or is this a toy store that happens to sell LEGO...? (I'm guessin the former, given the title of the post, but it's almost too good to be (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.va)
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(...) You know I checked my infiltraitor last night I I could have sworn it had lt-female and dk-male. This is driving me crazy lately because I have all the SW sets (Many multiple times) and I can't put together a matching pair anywhere and they (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) Not me, though I did brave the small knot of other day-late shoppers. Pretty much picked over, as I expected, but I did grab a Wave Jump Racers and a Carriage Ride - will probably keep the white structural bits and part most of the rest out so (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | 6541-6542 any chance?
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Is there any chance of aquiring either 6542 Launch & Load Seaport or 6541 Intercoastal Seaport through a straight sale? All help would be appreciated. Erin -- Even minifigs need a vacation. Seaborn Brick coming soon! (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) North (...) posting them. I was there on sat. and sunday and the crowd was great. Now for working on a new layout that I have. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: More Pic's of... Re: 2 person Heavy Assault Walker
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(...) The Sith Infiltrator is the one that comes with the reversed colors, eight of each. Jeff (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Jumping 'bots?
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I remember that jumping robot but I think that it was more than 10 years ago... I'm pretty sure I was in High School at the time. If I had to guess I would say 1984-1985 timeframe (or even older?). Somewhat related I remember seing a TV program in (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is 6097 Night Lords Castle worth it
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(...) 6097 doesn't have a lot of interesting bits. There's a couple doors, and some revolving wals, but it's really (IMHO) kinda boring for straight play value. If all you're looking for is display/play, and not as a parts source - I would suggest (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) In fact, as currently configured, building user-land programs also requires one of the perl programs in util, so we can't quite get rid of it yet. Here is my perl analysis- As far as I can tell (via extensive grepping and make-file reading), (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello......... Wow....this is weird. Where to start... I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Tim Culberson, living in Saint John NB, Canada. I'm 18 years old. ... Funny thing, this, Lugnet. At this point in time you should either be thinking (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: idea for Pirates spin-off
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(...) Only if it can be molded in ABS :) Ray (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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<snip (...) Just a couple more. 2x2 headlight/lamp piece (...) 4x4 half dome piece from the Space Port series Space Port helmet visor. The medalion thing in Adventurers Like you I am sure there are more. Eric K. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) There's a whole passel o' gold pieces in them thar Spaceport sets. Domes, visors, etc. eric (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Well, Markus is probably better qualified, but I'm going to try to get to it eventually. Don't bet on it for anytime soon- I seem to be getting less and less freetime, instead of more :( -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Dear Christian, I have been experimenting with legs that could make a robot jump like a frog (see my old "Jump Frog Jump"-posting). I had several problems. It was actually my first idea for a robot. One of the problems the idea represented was (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Does anyone have set #6115 (the Shark Scout from Aquasharks) for sale? If you do, let me know ASAP. Thanks. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Silver bricks
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(...) flying (...) Actually......... If you're looking for reflective silver pieces, there's a whole bunch!... They're just not mainly *bricks*, per se-- things that come to mind: In silver: 1x2 grill tiles Big shiny sword pieces Dagger pieces (as (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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iant wrote in message (...) In questo mi posso considerare fortunato: è stata la mia ragazza a regalarmi lo shuttle, a patto di partecipare attivamente alla costruzione. Hai già provato a coinvolgerla nella realizzazione?? Ciao Domenico (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: ILM
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iant wrote in message (...) In questo mi posso considerare fortunato: è stata la mia ragazza a regalarmi lo shuttle, a patto di partecipare attivamente alla costruzione. Hai già provato a coinvolgerla nella realizzazione?? Ciao Domenico (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: GALUG?
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(...) better (...) I think it's a wunnerful idea. I seem to be alone in Nashville (at least according to loc.us.tn.nas), although I could roadtrip over to Knoxville (time, time, time. <sigh>) to meet with some fellow AFOL's. And I'm considering a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | Re: MJ65 - Puma and Race to the Congo- Dino Quest.
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Hello Joseph, That's a fine looking anti-aircraft truck you built. The rotating gun looks pretty intimidating. That should ground the Bi-plane baron. ;). I wouldn't worry about the lack of tracks. Track was always coming off those 1/2 tracks. A (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: US S@H Specials are BACK!
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(...) Yeehaw! Incidentally, they should now be out of the 5846 Desert Island (I got the last one). It's cool getting specials PLUS a free McDonalds... I bet they're clearing room for the 2000 sets... (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Need help with Hoth Gun Turret
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See my page (URL) , I have done one with instructions. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- jmbrown@mines.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) at (...) would (...) ever (...) shrink (...) clearance. (...) Thanks, for the info, Kevin. From what I've seen and heard, it is a great set. That's why I'm so upset that I can't find it anywhere. I also need it to complete my collection. Maybe (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Is the LDraw parts database free?
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* Jonathan Wilson (wilsonj@xoommail.com) [991118 10:09]: (...) GPL refers to source code and binaries, and the fact that shipping a binary only won't let you fix problems your self (RMS has a story about a #$*#$& printer that, if they had the driver (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Yeah, I like to just build them as display models every now and then. My apartment has very limited space(especially with the 8448 sitting on the top shelf) and storage is an issue. It looks really neat, but since I don't have any others in its (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: WAMALUG was NOVALTC
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(...) It really sounds like you are evolving as a group nicely. Good Luck!!!. (...) Waahhh!!! Very nice. Take no prisioners!!! Its funny at one of the first NELUG meetings we discussed storming Enfield and extracting as much as we could for latter (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Tuesday Morning Sale
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(...) Follow up: I am very suprised at Lego. The box that the bricks came in was interesting in that it was obviously bound for Mexico, which I had never seen before. There was a big red sticker plastered on the front that said in large type (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Decision - Robolab 4 pak vs 4 RIS packages!
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If you are doing Robotics as a long-term project, go with one Team Challenge set for every 3 or 4 students. The ROBOLAB "Team Challenge" Set is the exact same set as the RIS 1.0, except that it comes in a nice plastic green tub with good storage on (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Jumping 'bots?
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(...) I remember a Scientific American article from a decade or so back on walking bots. (I’m now getting close the point where I’ll be reading the “25 Years Ago” articles for the second time, looking forward to that.) As I remember they discussed (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is to annouce that the Northern Virginia LEGO Train Club has officially changed it's name to the WAshington Metro Area LEGO Users Group. This was done in order to meet the varied interests of the train club and to foster new membership who may (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Enhanced Search
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(...) This is awesome. So awesome in fact, that I must ask, can you do this for sets that you DON'T have the instructions for? There is a bit of a feature war potentially developing here between you and Lugnet/pause which is IMHO, good for you, good (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Egyptian Theme in Town
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(...) I thought he was "born in Babylonia"... Oops. You'll need some tiered gardens, with lots of decorative pools. BTW, will Tut's pyramid pump water? Steve (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Meeting over the y2k holidays?
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(...) cool.. this is turning into a minifest! i'm getting jazzed! J (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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I just finished up the work on my Puma page: (URL) uses pieces from the Adventurer sets 5956-Expedition Balloon and 5958-Mummy's Tomb. I kind of wish it had doors (or even treads) but I still think it turned out okay. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Silver bricks
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The new Rock Raiders sets (at least the Tunnel Transport, that big lunky flying helicopter-tank :) comes with four or so silver grill-tiles. There, that doubles the silver element selection for you! shaun (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Trans-Orange Plate Sizes
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I liked the Space Police 1 the best: Trans-red, black and blue. Ah, the good ol' days! :) Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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| | Spirit.ocx Win NT and VB
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Anyone tried accessing spirit.ocx from Visual Basic 5 in Win NT 4? I get a "failed to load dll" error. Thanks, Garry Hayne (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Timothy Carl Buchheim wrote <SNIP> (...) Then my friend own two or three Fabuland-guys! One elephant, one police-dog and one... can´t remember. --Tobias (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.fabuland)
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| | Re: Jumping 'bots?
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Christian Jacobsen <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:00b101bf30f1$54...a@xtian... (...) I've been thinking about the same thing ever since seeing pictures of battleing robots. It would be great to have a bot that could hop on top of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Trans-Orange Plate Sizes
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(...) Sexy? Well, I don´t like that *all* the recent Space sets have had the antifreeze yellow or orange. The original trans-yellow would be great again. Like in my own Lava-planet theme, with trans-yellow, red and yellow. (...) Really. I have one (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Lid worden van LUGNET
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(...) Je zou natuurlijk via Larry en z'n factor hier in nederland[1] kunnen betalen. Liefst allemaal tegelijk, natuurlijk, hoeft Larry weer minder vaak geld te sturen naar Todd (hoewel hij geloof ik wel enigszins dingen opspaart). Jasper [1] (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) I think that making .lx files doesn't involve Perl, even though building legOS.srec and the util stuff still uses Perl. This implies that you could distribute a precompiled legOS.srec and a smaller set of tools, sans Perl, for people to build (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: More 2000 TRU Prices
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(...) Is it a rip-off? Let's take a guess at the retail value of the pieces: Crane: $17.00 $15.00 Dump Truck: 8.00 9.00 Digger: 8.00 9.00 (including both attachments) Service Vehicle: 5.00 5.00 Road sections: $6.00 x 4 24.00 Piers: $1.60 x 6 9.60 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Scott Edward Sanburn writes: TRU seems to be a collection of dim-witted (...) Yeah. As I said earlier, I have a serious love/hate relationship with TRU. Love the selection in one place, and they are the only game in town. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is the LDraw parts database free?
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(...) I have mailed with Jammes Jessiman about selling the parts, and program he made. This was his answer: You may sell it as long as you keep the parts and program together and proper. He ment I could distribute it as if I was the internet I could (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gear backlash
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=>David Paule writes: => > Does anybody have methods for reducing gear backlash? How about "reduce the gear train length?" (Not what you're looking for, I'll bet :-) d. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Meeting over the y2k holidays?
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(...) This would totally rock. Barbara and I are both in IS as well, but we've somehow eluded the company VP's who insist people work or be on-call over the holidays. This is one of the reasone we're leaving the state ASAP. I might even leave my (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: 4559 for less than MSRP
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(...) Go check again. The 4559's were off the shelf at my local Zellers for about 3 months - I thought they'd been pulled, and kept wandering by the clearance center in hopes they'd appear, but no dice. A couple weeks ago, I noticed them back on the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Gear backlash
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David Paule writes: > Does anybody have methods for reducing gear backlash? Ugh. The standard way to do this is with high-precision gears, and/or special split gears with a spring. I don't think there's much to do about it with Lego parts. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: About Blasters
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[cross posted to off-topic debate, drifting away from Star Wars again] (...) You know, this is a very ignorant attitude on censors and the like in regards to these situations. It seems that we are trying to disguise the real world from kids, so they (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: More 2000 TRU Prices
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Jeff Johnston wrote in message <383371AA.A968DDEE@m...ne.net>... (...) Random sigh of disappointment - why must LEGO make the "bad guys" have SUCH ugly faces nowadays. Wolf Pack didn't need eye patches sewn directly onto their skin. Ewwwww. LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Gear backlash
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Does anybody have methods for reducing gear backlash? (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 4559 for less than MSRP
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(...) I was going to get a 4559 in August, there was a couple of them in the Lego isle in Zellers. But, The day when I went to get them, they were gone!........oh well.....:-( Erin "You arrived to late, they're gone" Windross -- Even minifigs need a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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Thanks for the notes. I briefly tried to get legOS to compile on NT and gave up before I got as far as you did. Let us know if you get it all working. (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Final Price Reduction! 7745 $250
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This set is now taken. Thanks for looking. (...) main@appstate.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | sales page updated
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Hi, I am clearing the leftover of my space sets, another castle set, miscellaneous stuff. It's nothing spectacular and -as usual- too expensive. There are also some pirate ships left, if you want to have a look. First come, first serve. Arnold (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) It's quite possible that the -nostdinc line will block out the getopt.h mentioned in an earlier post. Could this be what you recall having to move? (...) This would be Markus's bit, but do we have anyone who knows cross-platform make stuff (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is 6097 Night Lords Castle worth it
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Jason Fabisch wrote in message ... (...) pieces. (...) my (...) head (...) So you'd be buying these sets as display models, or to build and put back in their boxes? I dunno. Working within those parameters I have no way to guess whether these sets (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: On the LEGO Company flash homepage
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From Fredrick Glockner's post: (...) Can people who do't have Flash actually get to this poll? Kevin (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MF and Bent Hinge in Catalog
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Ahh, sweet vindication ;) *grin* shaun (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
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(...) As do I. I know they had a much better selection of LEGO sets than anyone, TRU looked like and still does a garbage store compared to them. They had a lot of sets that were not anywhere else, I do not know if they were from Europe or whatever, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Line Following by Humans versus Bots
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(...) Heh, good point. (...) Incidentally, in my robot I have solved my moving light sensor problem. Now I'm left to the tedium of properly linking all four corners of my synchro platform now that I can't just freely run things through the center. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: idea for firmware development
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(...) Well, it’s difficult to guess the size right now. But I'm almost sure that size of the extension itself (without kernel code) will be smaller. ;) Depending on application, size of Forth code comparable with size of assembler code. The whole (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 4559 for less than MSRP
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(...) And just a note - if sometime in the future someone decides they really want one, just about anyone in Canada should be able to get it next time Zellers has a sale (about once a month 15-20% off) - they aren't exactly disappearing off the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | US S@H Specials are BACK!
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See the lsahs or shopping groups for the Specials this week. -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2001 SW Lego
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Jeff Johnston <sakura@mediaone.net> wrote in message news:3833F8ED.C0C005...one.net... (...) is (...) car (...) half (...) Thanks for the good laugh...just the image of someone even doing that was quite funny. Tom (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | HELP?
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I got this e-mail. Can anyone help this woman? have you ever seen a lego holder that is a blue penguin. circa 1970 or so? My husband has it and I was wondering if it's worth any money. It's about ohh..... knee high on an adult, give or take a few (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| | FW: idea for firmware development
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(...) Smaller? Sergey and I were discussing making the kernel a bit smaller, but so far my 10x10 maze robot takes up about 4K out of about 13K of application space. With better coding, I could probably shave about 1.5K off that. I find it hard to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | US S@H Specials Nov 18 - 21, 1999
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They're BAaAAaCK! 6497 Twisted Time Train $38.50 $19.75 2160 Crystal Scavenger $16.50 $ 8.25 2161 Aqua Dozer $27.50 $13.75 2162 Hydro Reef Wrecker $44.00 $22.00 4022 Sea Cutter $33.00 $16.50 6490 Amazon Crossing $16.50 $ 8.75 Scala 3115 Kitchen (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is the LDraw parts database free?
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(...) So do we want to clearly delineate what people can, and cannot, do with the parts library? Or is it better to leave it fuzzy? If people have to ask permission before doing certain actions (such as translating and/or redistributing), who do (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Set 5909
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(...) little (...) I have it and it's a great set. I'm pretty sure it was just a 'limited edition' type thing. I saw it all at once at Walmarts & TRUs in MASS quantity (end caps stuffed with 'em) late last summer, then watched their numbers shrink (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
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(...) Child World really was a great store it was my favorite toy store growing up. I think one of the reasons you found so much old stuff in 1990 though was probably because they were hurting finacially and were emptying their warehouses. Like (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Final Price Reduction! 7745 $250
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I haven't had any offers on this set, so I thought I would lower the price once again. Get it now for only $250! (...) main@appstate.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: About Blasters
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Hmm... this is interesting actually. I was wondering about this myself, and it did not make any sense to me until you reminded me that they had produced guns for the Wild West and Adventurers series. This made me think about the Batman Animated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
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(...) You guys remember the Child World/Children's Palace chain that I think died out about 9 years ago (That's the last time I remember seeing one). They were great for so many reasons. They got some weird import toys in, actually marked their (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: compiling legOS
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(...) getopt.h is part of the standard gnu C libraries. In a normal Linux system, it is in /usr/include/. What compiler are you using on Solaris? Is it gcc or something else? If it's gcc, then it should be there. IF you are not using gcc, then there (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Set 5909
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Does anyone have any ideas as to why it's so difficult (nearly impossible) to find set 5909? It's the set with the tan bi-plane with white wings and a little jeep-truck thing. I've managed to collect every other adventurers' set from 1998 except (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
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(...) I used to work at a bookstore, and we had that problem all the time. There were times when the inventory said 0, or -1 and we had one sitting on the shelf. There were also plenty of times when the inventory said 1 or 2 and we couldn't find it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is the LDraw parts database free?
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(...) Good point. I haven't read the GPL lately, and I have a bad memory for license details. Steve (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: OOPS! FORGOT THE ADDRESS! :-)
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(...) Hi Jonas! Thanks for looking at my page. That line that I used worked great for the planes. All I wanted was something that was going to be hard to see when someone walked in the room and make it look like the planes were actually flying. As (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 4558 - wishful thinking?
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(...) <snip> (...) For my part, doors - yes - I'd love more of them. Windows - not really. Most of the trains I'm familiar with in real life have windows that are very elongated - a lot longer than they are high. From my point of view Lego train (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DFW, It's time to speak up!
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(...) my best friend works for Dell in Austin.. from what i've seen of the city it's easily more beautiful than big D, but Dallas feels more "grown up" since there isn't such a large percentage of college kids making up the population.. both places (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw)
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| | Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
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(...) Which goes directly to my point, the numbers in an online inventory system (for anything smaller than autos or rocket ships) should always be viewed with some expectation of being off a little. All those computer-based inventories for TRUs, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Thinking of getting new Train
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(...) You may want to call Shop at Home and get 3225 Classic Train before they sell out. It's about the best of the recent trains. Also look for 4565 in the stores (or get it from S@H). 4561 the newest train is ok, but I would hold out for a sale (I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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