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(...) LOL :( We were looking at the 2000 in-box catalog the other night. Upon spying the centerfold spread, Kristin (my SLSO) asked, "where's the set with the battle droid army?" I just smiled weakly at her. Steve (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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My Mouth Drops!! (...) Mindstorms Now that is Xmas, if i had that, that would be a very good xmas., Never mind i will complete my collection next year. What did you buy the wife for xmas? - Michael Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Try using the fine grid. A good thing to remember is that you usually have to move the piece an even number (2, 4, 6, 8, etc) of times. To place axles, I move the axle so that it interects the hole as close as possible to where it should. Then (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) cylinders (...) cheap. (...) Hi Lawrence, Yes I got Lego for Christmas....all of it....all of the Technic sets available in Toys R us in Zurich. I had just bought Mindstorms 3 months ago and got hooked on Technic so she walked into the shop (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Hello Kitty is still popular in Japan, and there is a small market here in the US. According to Animerica, the TV show is on Toon Disney. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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(...) I agree with you about the stickers-vs-printing thing, but stickers for the quarter-hulls would have been terrible. Kids would have been very frustrated, because there'd have to be a number of individual stickers for each part. Not that I like (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Has anyone experienced the RCX "locking up" when trying to use dll? When I try to download a .lx file with dll, the brick freezes. It won't respond to any buttons and I have to take the batteries out and re-load the firmware. Any ideas why this is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I just pre-ordered a Technic Destroyer Droid from Lego! I called the number in the "direct" flyer! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Check the permissions on /dev/ttyS1. I think the default is for it to be locked down to superuser only. If this is the case, then running nqc from a normal user account would cause the error you got. You'll need read/write rights to /dev/ttyS1 in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Geometry Pages
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I am looking for pages that have good representations of brick geometry and their applications. Eric's "LEGO thoughts on my mind" is a good example of what I am looking for. Obviously, however, there are only so many ways to stack two plates on a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Wishlist
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(...) Hmm. Could have been a customer-service problem. Little Timmy's mom calls LEGO Consumer Affairs, reports that little Timmy's RCX doesn't work anymore. Consumer Affairs sends a new one, with a return shipping label so mom can ship back the bad (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: How old are you?
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Hi all ... I just turned 65 a week ago and have been doing LEGOs for about twenty years ... a whole lot better than the Lincoln Logs that I had as a kid! The day after Christmas my two sons (11 & 12 y.o.) and I went to LEGOLand ... it was great! And (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Problems with legOS-0.2.2 on Windows 95
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Hi, I followed the instructions on (URL) install legOS-0.2.2 on my Windows 95 PC. I downloaded all the files, installed the packages, and modified the makefiles. And was finally ready to compile, the results of the compilation is shown below... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Anyone get Lego for XMAS?
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Lawrence Wilkes (<FnI4w7.Any@lugnet.com>) wrote at 12:19:19 (...) I've had mine for a while, but I only got round to building it the other day. It's certainly the best *looking* car that they've done, but it *still* doesn't have (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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(...) Well, I'd comment, but Tony's already said what I would've said (snipped from another recent castle post): (...) I agree that it would be nice to have them in grey AND tan... as a matter of fact I think I'd PREFER grey, but I don't object to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) What you speak of seems to be *very* dependent on the particular store and their philosophy of markdowns. My local WM-sc seems to be of the mind "don't clearance it until we have tried ever other way to sell it. Once we start marking down, do (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Re: 2000 sets now on-line @ LEGO.com
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"JS" == Jeff Stembel <Dragonelf1@aol.com> writes: (...) MM> I was checking out the LEGO.com site and noticed that the new 2000 MM> line LEGOs are now listed in the catalog. This includes the MM> Soccer, Town, Technic and Star Wars (I didn't check (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: touch sensors - two at a time ?
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(...) It's not a race condition, strictly speaking. It's more of a data sampling error. If you run that it a tight loop you will test the sensors hundreds or thousands of times a second. In order to see a simultaneous press you'd have to hit them at (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The steering rack has two small cogs. One is connected up to the steering wheel. I put the micromotor on the back of the other, and used a plate on top to hold it. I had to remove the grey triangle as it was in the way and use a L piece (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) If I understand your problem correctly, it has nothing to do with legOS specifically. Therefore, I will answer, even though I have no experience with legOS. The problem is, there is a very small amount of time where, while you're pushing on (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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