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Re: Pirates in Pause database
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Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:42:42 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
("Pirate System" is more officially correct than "Pirates" and he
was annoyed by that, and I always support him in pedantic things like that.)

:-) :-) You diamond former, you. (said with affection, it takes one to
know one)

BTW, did you see the incredible job rearranging and reclarifying all of the
Trains stuff that he did?

Yes. Very nice work. But to be pedantic, there is at least one set that
is arguably neither 4.5v nor 12v that had to be classified as one or the
other under this scheme.
Which one is left as an exercise to the reader.

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(...) My, how things come back around in circles... :) (...) As far as I'm concerned, all 4.5V sets ARE 12V sets, without motors and center rails, so it would be hard for this to bother me. Early sets had different number ranges, though, so they (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

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(...) It's a transitional thing -- I think Joshua was embarking on fixing the names. ("Pirate System" is more officially correct than "Pirates" and he was annoyed by that, and I always support him in pedantic things like that.) BTW, did you see the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

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