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I don't know if it's Canada-wide or not, but my local Zellers (Prince George, B.C.) has 15% off Lego today. I got lucky and scored a 4561 for about $120, which is good considering Toyrs'R'Us and Wal-Mart don't exist where I live. -- Paul Davidson, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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I just received some extra money and now have $110 to spend on Lego sets and pieces. I'm looking to get something new and was wondering what users thought of the DDK and how it compares to other MindStorms sets. I realize the RIS is probably the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.microscout)
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| | Re: item prices
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I'm sure you meant attics ;-) 1 - I buy sets I NEED, whether they are duplicates or not. Right now, I am buying any set I can get that has Rolling Garage Doors, JUST for the doors. I have won several sets in the last week or 2 that will be parted (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: more user questions
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A general note, there is a README.WRI file. This includes information beyond what Markus originally wrote in README. Perhaps I should have deleted his README (I include it in README.WRI, anyway). Open your copy of MAKEFILE. You'll find this line: (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Young Obi-Wan's Head
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(...) Doesn't Leia say in ROTJ that her mother died when she was very young? (...) thoughts (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Ultimate Expansion set Remote Control?
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(...) I got the same regarding a call I made to ask about the new Technic guys (8300) and this date is apparently accurate then. Anyone know if we can pre- order things or make an order which includes a new item and not pay extra shipping for it to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Blue computer slope
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Please don't laugh at me, but I am looking for a blue 2x2 computer slope (space police I). I *REALLY* need one of these. Anyone have one they could part with? I am looking for a trade, as my wife will not let me buy anymore until May (Ouch!). If you (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: MOC: Aquaraider Wavechopper
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(...) As I was sorting pieces last weekend (oops, wrong ng!), I found a castle fig that had the reddish brown hair and beard. I guess when I first got it, I probably assumed it was brown, but in a good light, it's definitely auburn. (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: February MOTM Voting online
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(...) And Jacob wins the million with all lifelines intact! :) I realized my mistake right after I walked out the door this morning. Thanks for fixing it for me. -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Looking for Status again, GB2 GB4 GB5 Junk2 Top of list
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(...) AFAIK, drab box #1 left Canada quite a while ago, which is why the most recent Canada tour update I sent you doesn't have it. I'll ping the list, and confirm that for you, though. James (URL) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Ultimate Expansion set Remote Control?
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One of the first things I purchased was the Mindstorms remote control. It is not expensive, less than $20 'merican. It can send messages 1, 2 and 3 (three buttons) It can force motors on forward, or reverse overriding a running program (three pairs (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: sending keepalive... ???
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(...) If the readme file says the demo LX files are included, that is a mistake (or should I include them?). I'll have to correct it. As for your download problem, did you download the firmware first (firmdl3 legOS.srec)? LX files are relocatible (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Version 1.0
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Go for it. That's what I did to get another brick with an external power connector. It might come in handy some day.. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: item prices
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(...) I am one of those 4 other individuals. Thanks, James! When you offered to get the sets for us at cost, you requested that we not just auction the sets off on Ebay, because you didn't want to go to the trouble of getting the sets and mailing (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Looking for Status again, GB2 GB4 GB5 Junk2 Top of list
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I'm checking to see where box 4 and 5 are again, I haven't heard anything about them for a while :( Eric, have you gotten GB4 and sent it off yet??? Doug any news on the box? Tom I know you sent off GB5, I believe it was headed to Ken first (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | more user questions
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I too have had my problems with this system. Perhaps they come from my inexperience with LEGOS or UNIX, which doubtless is apparent in my description below: Downloading and installing went well. Then, after correcting a minor SET PATH syntax error (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 6520 in the snow
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(...) snow. It didn't take long with our blizard conditions (I'm in the Nation's Capital area) to start to see many of the pieces getting buried in the onslaught of snow. Within a half an hour, one parka clad mini-fig was up to his snow- glasses in (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Throwbots
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(...) ...I don't mean to sound ignorant, but can you narrow the area down a bit? I'm in Oregon, on the West Coast of the USA. If I'm going to have to dig out my passport for this one, I suppose I'll have to wait. *grin* -Cheese (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Version 1.0
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One the shelves locally are Mindstorms sets that have big stickers that say something like "free upgrade to 1.5 available" These seems to indicate they are version 1.0 I bought my first set from Shop and Home and it was the latest 1.5 version, no (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Non-Latin encoding (was: Re: conclusion)
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(...) Hmm, I'm not so sure. (...) Hmm, well, but you were using Microshaft Look-Out to post the messages. The funny thing is, all of the non-Latin characters were converted (somewhere) to ?'s. Most likely, methinks, this happened not at the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.admin.general)
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