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(...) How about a new, smaller, style for input/output ports, perhaps a 3.5mm plug? This would allow more ports in less space on the RCX. But it would also require a port-to-LEGO conversion wire, so all the existing electric stuff can be hooked up. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | First Lego League Software
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JS Gregory wrote... (...) Are you sure? I just checked the FLL site and they are allowing RoboLab software, which I know is available from LEGO too. Oh, that's what you said in the last paragraph...sorry. In the note on the 2000 season, it seems (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Line in the Sand
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(...) Nope, not a joke. I seriously didn't remember the reason(s) why other approaches wouldn't work as well as INVERTNEXT. I poked around old messages a little bit, I think I remember better now. Let me (attempt to) explain: When this whole BFC (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is a CDROM really necessary for mindstorms?
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Yes, you can. I run the original on a AST 486 laptop without a CD drive. I have a pccard "scsi bus toaster" that I use to connect a CD drive when I install things. You can't do the video animiation stuff, which runs off the CD, but you can use the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GATS Tampa Show...
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(...) thing is huge! Working on a 6 wide scale I have not been able to produce a complete train--I am getting close-- and I cannot imagine buying enough bricks to work at the 8 wide level. Not yet at least. Then again I cannot imagine having enough (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | NELUG Castle Display at TCS Brainstorm...
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All followups to LUGNET.ORG.US and LUGNET.LOC.US.MA.BOS (because that is where TCS is). As most of you know many of us in NELUG are going to work on a Window Display at The Construction Site in Waltham MA ( www.constructiontoys.com ). We hope to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Why not wait
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(...) I agree completely! To reiterate an earlier point, the greater problem is that Han's evolution as a character is watered-down, so that he's no longer a self-serving rogue finding redemption through a cause--he's an okay guy who remains an okay (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Longest train?
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(...) snip (...) Ah, I was being vague again. The trains to which I was refering were regular freight trains not coal trains. snip (...) Why 'space'? Is it because your trains become 'rockets' if you send more than 10 cars and 3 engines down at once (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Castle TCS Window Project (was Re: NELUG meeting report from 12/16/1999)
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(...) I have cross-posted this to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos (because that is where TCS is after all). I think we are starting to get some Ideas and I think I will probably start a dedicated thread for this project very soon. (...) I like this idea a lot (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Web Hosting Questions?
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Robin, The NGLTC is using www.truehosting.com for only $9.99 a month, that includes 50 meg, plus 10 email alias, and some other regular goodies. jt Robin Werner wrote in message ... (...) cost (...) maybe (...) best (...) pop-up (...) time (...) and (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org)
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