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Yes RIS 1.5 costs $20 MORE than RIS1.0. It's a good thing I bought 9 RIS 1.0 and the 1.5 upgrade ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Why not wait
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(...) Of course, that would cut the running time to about fifteen minutes... Dave! (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: My website to be in the next Technic Magazine?
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Michael Do you happen to have details of how to join the UK Technic Club? Every time I go to LLW they never have any membership forms. BTW - congrats on getting in the mag... now if only we had a UK user group webpage you could link to :-) Neil. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: January get-together
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(...) I get back from Texas around the 9th. After that, any day is good but Fridays are great. (...) How far north is our north-est member? (...) Hear, hear! And drive safely, folks! (my canned holiday message :-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut)
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| | 2000 Lego at Target Cupertino
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Last night I saw lots of 2000 Lego at Target in Cupertino on Stevens Creek (cross Street DeAnza). I managed to get out of there with only an A-Wing (which turned out to actually be quite a good set). They have all the Star Wars sets, some castle (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Not to mention the stupid cute-and-cuddly Jabba scene. But you know, we can always hope that TPM SE will be Jar Jar-free. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Sorry if the contest rules were unclear. Some people think that the 3-month deadline is too long, so I will make it 2 mos., ending on March 1st. And no, I don't think my hotmail account will be able to store all of those images. Looks like I will (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) :-) Jean-Pierre's analyzer is not a "simple analysis" and may not work 100% correctly without human intervention. /Lars (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote ... (...) Is this a joke? You argue very well in "Inversion" in "Language Extension Functionality" about the 3D tube ;-) /Lars Sorry if I missed a pun. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Why not wait
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(...) With any luck, Lucas will refrain from any more Special Edition chop jobs... The soundtrack from TESB, and the suddenly moralized Greedo blaster shot scene, still make me cringe. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: parts.lst and mklst(?).exe.
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Johannes Keukelaar wrote... (...) It does work, you can open either 1234a.dat or 1234A.DAT, or even 1234a.DaT. The fat/vfat/msdos filesystem in Linux is case-insensitive. Try it! (...) Pure MSDOS programs see all files in uppercase. /Lars (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New technic MOC: Gecko Seven
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(...) but...your models just wow me. Every single one you publish makes me want to rush out and blow $1000 on a Supercar. :-, If TLG released more Technic models of the caliber and quality you display in yours, I'd buy them all. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Minitalia Lego sets (from Italy)
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WOW! Seguitevi questo thread: (URL) non ne avevo mai sentito parlare... Mario (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: GATS Tampa Show...
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Seriously, what are you going to do when TLC introduces their new line of 8 wides trains? It's inevitable. Evolution and all that jazz... I mean, if TLC would get serious about producing model train sets, would you want them 6 wide and toylike? Why (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 2000 Sets at local Targets
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(...) Doh, I meant 620, not 290. Sorry. (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Shopko sale
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I checked out one of my local Shopko stores and there were a lot of sets on sale for 50% off. Most of them had aready been cleaned out but there were a few ninja and the larger adventurer sets left. I picked up 3 boxes of ninja knights for $9. I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Powering trains w/ RCX
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Even if it was $0.20 by the time it is productized it is maybe $1.00. Multiply this by the quantity sold and you just save ~$500,000 (whatever the quantity is). When designing computer mother boards there will be large debates over $0.05 BOM (bill (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Mindstorms Wishlist
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1. RCX Pro Like the current yellow RCX brick, but with more inputs and outputs. Basically the same size, but could be a tiny bit bigger to fit more connectors. Is _square_ on the bottom, and of course has an AC adaptor. Perhaps has both radio and IR (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Text to Speech capability on the RCX
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(...) NQC can't drive the speaker directly. Using LegOS, you have binary control over the speaker output. Limited text to speech might be possible, but it will sound twangy at best. Worth a try though... -Kekoa (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 2000 LEGO
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Hello all, If you haven't found some of the 2000 sets yet (especially the Star Wars sets), you might want to check the nearest Toys 'r Us. I just picked up a Slave I today at the Fort Collins TrU; they also had the B-wing. Everything else I have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.co.cos, lugnet.loc.us.co.den, lugnet.loc.us.co)
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