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(...) Considered, yes. Done something, no. (...) We try to do that already. (...) How do we do that? (...) I am not sure that the BP7 floating-point format exactly matches the IEEE format, but I will look it up. (...) Yes. Also for easy testing of (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Enlightenment
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(...) Is fred looking for 2x3 black bricks? I have quite a few that I was going to use for train roadbed, but I could part with some if it will help with your project. I have about 1200 of them. How many do you need? Mike (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
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What a wonderful post, Mark. Thank you so much. Forwarding to lugnet.faq. This could serve as the definitive entry for the question "What are these strange looking (pre-technic?) gears I've found?" (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Redditch 'fest (was: re: NW Fest)
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Can somebody please have one in Edinburgh! Please! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Thanks for the definitive reply, Mark! I think that clears it all up, all right. Dave Johnson (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Redditch 'fest (was: re: NW Fest)
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(...) Well... "Jason Briscoe" <jason-shirley@brisc...rve.co.uk> said: (...) "Carbon 60" <carbon60@bigfoot.com> replied: (...) So... Is this definite?!? (yet) If not, I've heard suggestions from Alan Kershaw for a gathering in Barnsley, West Yorks, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: MIBO - the dog. Anyone built it?
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Please go ahead and post the directions. They will definitely be of interest. And some people either already have enough stuff or will be willing to find an excuse to get more. Regards, Dave Paule (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The wife problem
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(...) I don't want to sow seeds of paranoia (no, really) but my girlfriends brother was looking at pictures of LEGO on the internet the other day, and one of the links was to LUGNET.. she said "Oh, that's where Richard plays", so they followed the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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(...) you (...) Wow, you work like 10 minutes from my home in Hamilton! I have seen sets arrive almost 2 weeks after everyone else has them from the Michigan Meijers stores. We will just have to sit and wait. What local stores have you found that (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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(...) No. But using the phrase "The LDS" may require some troublesome context switching from anyone familiar with the Mormon church. Kidding ... I think. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Supply and demand
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(...) Garage sale prices should NEVER be assumed to have anything to do with the true "value". The value is always what people will pay for an item, given reasonably complete knowledge of the market. eBay prices are perhaps some of the closest to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: PentWing Fighter, Version II
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Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message news:19991213.173810...uno.com... (...) I say it's hard to beat the Naboo canopy for coolness. (...) How about Pentadactyl ("five-fingered")? -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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Can we pick one newsgroup for this discussion? Please? (...) I don't see much of a need for this, other than saying programs can claim they are "LDraw Compatible". (...) Nah. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Has anyone inventoried these sets yet? I am also in need of them. Dan M. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Where are the carriers?
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(...) I don't have enough material to make anything on that scale either, but if I did, I'd be tempted to make a through-deck carrier, meaning the landing bay goes all the way through the ship and is open at both ends. That way, a craft can be (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Weekend Creations
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So, anyone build anything over the Weekend? I went nuts with the bricks, and built three buildings. Two Story House: I built a house, somewhat similar in design to 6372, but a tad bigger. Office Building: Then I built an office building using the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: This is just funny.
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(...) of the alternate model, instead of the main model. It's hard to really appreciate the main model that way. It must have been a pre-production picture, before they decided for sure which was the main model. (...) You're welcome. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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(...) Another weird thing is the arctic sets rang up as LEGO, not DUPLO LEGO. Looking over my receipt, some are called LEGO, some are called DUPLO LEGO, and some are called LEGO DUPLO. Only one of the items had a star next to it, meaning sale: 7124, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | WTT: McDonald's Lego
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I'd like to trade for two each of #1 and #3. I have extras of #'s 2, 5, and 6. I'd prefer to make one trade and get all four sets I want. Alan ---...--- Alan Demlow |demlow@lightlink.com |www.lightlink.com/d.../trade.txt (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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(...) Taken out of context, this sentence is a bit strange :-) Think of Bill Clinton... (...) Hmm, have you tried breaking your source into smaller chunks? What is the definition that is failing. I have lots of scripts that are 2K or more and they (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Supply and demand
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(...) people on (...) are (...) garage (...) How about what you can get for them after the Y2K apocalypse occurs? = ) No, really -- I think the garage sale is the true guage of the price. If they are sold to the masses, then we should go by the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Juniorization -- too simple even for kids?
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(...) That seems backwards. It seems like you'd have *more* of a leg to stand on, because the warning *should* have addressed your child, and didn't. Then again, I've heard that people shouldn't post "Beware of Dog" signs in their yard, because if (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Beds
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(...) Check out this post to cad.dat.ideas I made a while ago: < (URL) > Jeff (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Alternate 8888?
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I'm not sure I understand your reply. When you say "This picture" do you mean the book shown as being the 8888, or the catalog scan itself. What do you mean by "Technic Folder"? Anyway, just to be clear, if you look here you will see the US cover (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: MIBO - the dog. Anyone built it?
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Are these the only extra pieces that are needed? thanks Jenny (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Semi-Odd Parts I'd Like to Know About
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FMqJp3.I9p@lugnet.com... (...) Skyway) The new Town Jr. Highway set (6600) has a couple in blue. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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(...) I've tried different positions even under my desk. But it won't work. after 500 - 1000 chars the first transmission error occurred normally inside a word definition. (...) i've done this already (yesterday evening). In perl. If there is a need (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: NW Fest
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Should have put the cadles on the Brick Cake, what was it like, even i missed it. Dam.... Happy Birthday Tony, enjoy your new models, and rub your hands nice with that MIB Space Set Thanks Jon for the Tie pins, looks nice on the notice board ... I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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(...) Hmmm... when I worked at a plastic parts plant in Fowlerville, Michigan, we had some new molds come in for the Dodge Neon Battery Box. The molds where around a 2 foot cube (2'x2'x2'). They cost the company around 500,000 each, and we had two (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: "Forening af nordiske LEGO-byggere"
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Fredrik: (...) Så er det måske enklere, hvis jeg tager mig af det (og det kan jo godt være at Todd vil gå med til at vi deles om opgaven). (...) Helt klart. (...) Færinge burde kunne forstå norsk uden de store problemer (eller også er det "norsk" vi (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.fi)
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| | Re: 2000 Star Wars sets are out in US
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I don't think that the Destroyer Droid is scheduled to ship until February (so it may show up in January, but probably not December). BTW, for anyone finding the sets out of stock at Meijer, you can get rainchecks at the sale price. I did this for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A new castle babe!!! (and a weird knight--not a woman)
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(...) <Snipped my stuff> (...) Ack! I should've realized that sounded angry and arrogant, I apologize. I didn't *mean* for it to sound that way, in fact I wasn't very angry at all. I just wanted to plainly state why I believed what I did. After I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Semi-Odd Parts I'd Like to Know About
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(...) Possibly white, not sure. L/D 2635 is also of interest, (...) Red, Yellow and White for sure. (respectively, the 'new' train loading station, the old train loading station (4555) and as above, teh Century Skyway) James Powell (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Switching from 4,5V to 9V
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(...) Well, actually, if you battery or RCX power your 9V motor, you can run it on 4.5V track... If I was converting from 4.5V to 9V, I would just abandon all the 4.5V track, and go all 9V track. The 4.5V motors should run just fine on the 9V track (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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(...) Yes, TLG does imbed worn out molds in buildings. No, the molds are not hard to make. It is the pattern making that is hard to do (the first mold) I would imagine that the LEGO molds have been done on CAM for quite some time...since the best (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Sounds like divine intervention! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Supply and demand
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I think the question is also "what is a set worth?". There are very few people on the planet who would pay even $100 for a used 4558. Just because AFOL's do, are they really worth that? Or is what they go for at local charity shops and garage sales (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: "The True Lego Geeks"
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(...) Of course another option for the 2nd picture would be one of those town junior slanted arch things. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NW Fest
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Just a quick thank you to Tony for hosting the gathering, and to everyone else who attended - I think that I traded with each and every one of you! I was certainly happy with my gains from the event. Please all continue to collect 'that old junk' (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Suzanne Rich v The Thread That Would Not Die!
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Two of these were included in Technic set 8680 Arctic Rescue Base and in set 8852 Robot. And for the kicker, when I went to BrickSet to look this up, in the "Random Set Window" on the front page was set 6659 TV Camera Crew which I quickly noticed (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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