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Boy, I just maxed out my Lego Credit Card on my last order! Wish List: International Jetport (Lego # 6396) Airport (Lego # 6392) International Airport (Lego # 6597) Monorail Transport System (Space Lego #6990) <- I got your last one, the 6991 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Support Insectoids Leg Small, part #30211, partially complete
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[XPOST lugnet.faq, XFUT lugnet.cad.dev. Please follow-up appropriately.] (...) Inlining is the process of replacing a subfile reference with the contents of the subfile. Like this: b = 12*a a = c + 3 If you _inlined_ a into b, you'd get: b = 12*c + (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Nice article in the Kansas City Star
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(...) This summer we had some friends over for a party, one of whom happens to do freelance work for the newspaper. While the kids were running the trains and playing with vehicles at the edge of the tables, we started talking about putting together (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: HandyBoard not responding
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Kalyan, The gray squares on the LCD simply mean that the HB doesn't have its pcode program loaded. So it doesn't indicate a hardware failure. With Window 2K, were you able to open "Direct to COM1" using HyperTerminal? If no, this definitely (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sidecars
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(...) Back in September 1995 on RTL, Jeremiah Johnson (is he still around?) provided plans for a sidecar in this message: (URL) Susan Hoover Houston, TX (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: parts listing - prefered order?
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This is a thing I have been pondering too. I have two sets right now which I am considering splitting for parts : a 8880 and a 4561. 8880 I've did this before with one of these, but I sold the MISP bags... rather than sorting the parts. The problem (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Nice article in the Kansas City Star
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Cool! Wish I got the paper on the weekdays. But since I moved from OP over to Lawrence I"ve not gotten it with any frequency and decided to can the KC star and get the Lawrence paper. Very neat, can't wait to see the picture. Tom Boucher Lawrence, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)
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| | Re: Light Saber Duel on sale at Toysrus.com
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(...) My Gungan Sub just showed up from ToysRUs.com, and for some reason they shipped it to me FedEx priority overnight even though I specified the free shipping option. I stand by my assertion that these websites are currently selling at a loss in (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: New part: Plate 6 x 6 x 2/3 Cross with Dome - 30303.dat
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(...) In this case, that's about all that can be done. The area to be plotted isn't a clean section of a cylinder, so you can't use the sloped cylinder primitives to fill part/most of the surface. Steve (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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Hi Peter, This is just as far as I got too. My next step is going to be to build the compiler with Markus' patch applied. But if you get to it first, that would be swell. Jonathan (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Radio shack basic electronics book
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You can probably find the relevant Mims books here in the uk *somewhere*, although Tandy have recently pulled completely out of the electronics market and are now a mobile phone shop only. (Well, almost) I can think of a couple of places I reckon I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Selflearning Scout robot
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(...) We have something vaguely similar (a "reinforcement learning" robot, specifically Q learning.) Probably even more computationally intense than the average neural net (depending on a number of factors). I have some code, but I've been meaning (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) only archiving, or no archiving. We chose to leave the archives open to everyone. I guess if we ever wanted to take a discussion out of the public eyes, we could just start a discussion by "replying to all recipients" or something. I do like (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Help! The Classic 4-blade rotor has been overwritten!
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(...) Thank you, thank you, thank you! It works, it really works! That helped me out tremendously. If you need anything (such as a custom minifig torso), let me know. James J. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | RE: HandyBoard not responding
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Hi, I tried to download the pcode under Windows 2000 , but I got the same error. So the problem is not with the COM port, must be something else. When I switch the handyboard on I see squares on the first line of the LCD. Thanks Kalyan -----Original (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Nice article in the Kansas City Star
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Nice article. Aside from the minor "legos" nit, which we will never win, I suppose, I found this article to be free of "isn't that cute" or "that is weird" overtones that you find sometimes. Can we ask the details of how it came to be written? My (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego/playmobile ramble
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:383BF42D.36CA22...ger.net... (...) years (...) Hey, we are going slowly...to anywhere..:-( What could I say, you are completely right. Selçuk (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Radio shack basic electronics book
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(...) I recently obtained a commercial catalog from RadioShack. It's a little over an inch thick and offers quite a bit more than I realized that RadioShack carried. It doesn't beat out Digi-Key for special component parts but has MUCH more in the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Dealings with Rene Virsik?
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Further update: My sets arrived! The pieces were in pretty dusty condition, and there were a few pieces missing (2 oars, a ghost, a 1x2 plate w/ bar, a 1x1 yellow round plate, and a couple others), but for the most part everything was there. All the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Lego/playmobile ramble
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(...) I think Playmobile is much more like Duplo than Lego, both due to the size of the figures and the aspects Frank describes above. Indeed, speaking as somebody who has a very substantial amount of Duplo, I find that it often comes mixed with (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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| | Re: lack of interest in basic stamp and basicx
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(...) I agree that Forth is better than many other languages in many ways. What I was saying was that it has a different look-and-feel and one needs to get used to it first. Plus that it is not very easy to switch from for example C to Forth and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I need help with the new tread links
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What do you mean? Are you asking how the pieces go together, or something else? The piece physically hooks together just like a regular chain link piece. (...) Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) - - Web Application Integration! (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Nice article in the Kansas City Star
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Today's newspaper has a nice article on my town layout and a few of Kansas City's LEGO fans. I'll try to put the picture (which is not included in the e- paper) on my webpage soon. The link below works at least today. (URL) well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego/playmobile ramble
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(...) As opposed to now, when you have to bribe the customs official to get relief goods in to the country?? Sigh. (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
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(...) Hmm.. Maybe I could reduce the controversy and hassle if I just put together a site of my own (Geocites and Xoom are free, right?) and put any pertinent clone info there instead of taking up space on one of the more official sites. If I were (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego Store
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It's in downtown disney. Search Lugnet (from the main web page) for Disney, Store and Lego as keywords and you should find a very detailed set of directions that Mark Herzberg (sp?) posted, and some corrections and amplifications others put in... (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LUG for "Dixie" (Southeast US)
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How about spelling Dixie out for: DixieLUG... it's long but there's no confusion. e ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / www.ericharshbarger.org "Oh please, if people are going to start telling the truth around here... I'm going (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | Re: Mini-figs
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(...) I think someone posted this quite a while back as well and it works great. My simple SW fig that you may have seen is a Rebel Soldier in Jungle gear (aka Endor). It requires pulling the arms off of the Jedi Luke from the Speeder Bikes and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Lego/playmobile ramble
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(...) I have noticed this similarity also. Part of it is the fact that both lines are very extensive, so should have an incredible overlap (or someone's research into what kids seem to be interested in is totally invalid). I have noticed other toy (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Whither L3P?
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(...) I (...) using (...) I think it's a problem with my ISP. I have received several e-mails from others who can hit the server, and Onyx e-mailed me the zip file. Thanks for the suggestion. James (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's the biggest/best spare piece you ever got in a set?
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(...) All 4 of these that I got from DYA had the extra plate. Not counting the 6 wide windshields in one of the train sets which are there for an alternate model, I think this is the biggest extra I've ever got. (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Free downloadable foreign language vocab study program
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Found this while surfing around today. The link is posted at my "good deals" website ((URL) but here it is also: (URL) just downloaded all the languages for both Mac and PC. Kinda curious about the Latin and Irish ones... (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LTMA vs NMRA
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(...) I think we should have both an NMRA SIG, and an independant LTMA. There will be some duplication of energies, but an LTMA would probably be more capable of making itself visible outside the hobby (article in Mania Magazine, representation at (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | FA : DUPLO!
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The 2nd best toy in the world (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Proposed new byelaw for lugnet.loc.uk
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(...) There was a question like this on 'who wants to be a millionaire' the other night. AFAICR, it gave 4 addresses and asked which one was that of Hancock. The other 3 were all fictional addresses from comedy programmes too; ? Cottage, Oil Drum (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: Tilt and Walking
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(...) OhOh. I think that walk is patented :-) At the very least you might get a nice cease and desist letter from his lawyer who is (I think) a monkey, or is it a llama? Either that or if you post an MPEG movie you'll get slash-dotted. Cheers, Ralph (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: lack of interest in basic stamp and basicx
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(...) It's funny, but a lot of what you need to do to write good Forth is done for you under the hood by C compilers. The wierd thing is that a C compiler intermingles data and return values on one stack while Forth separates them. (...) Now that (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mini-figs
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Hey Lugnet! Get ready to have some fun. Grab a Rebel Technician, and a Luke minifig. Change their heads, and you have a perfect Luke in Bespin gear. Now grab your Vader minifig, and have yourself some good old wholesome lightsaber battlen' fun. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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