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| Hi All, This message is of most benefit to people living in Perth, Australia, but I thought others in the LEGO community would be interested too. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Australia have organised a fundraiser for 8 year old Ben Hamilton who's (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.au.wa.per, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | LEGO name change
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| This is an important announcement for any LEGO fan who has a web site containing disclaimers. The descriptive phrase "the LEGO Group" has changed to "the LEGO Company." Its use applies to all LEGO companies, workplaces, and the organization as a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | 2000 catalog day stats
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| Here's some fun statistics for the BrickShelf site the first full day after the 2000 catalog was posted (11-09-99 EST). By far the highest day of activity ever for the site. General HTTP: Unique IP's: 3843 Static Pages Served: 54645 CGI Pages (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | | | | | 2000 Direct catalog is online!
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| (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | 2000 Scans are Online!
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| (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | Chicago Legofest/Museum of Science and Industry Mindstorms event Dec 4
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| Well, there's been a little interest in the Chicago Legofest idea. Its been brought to my attention as well that the Museum of Science and Industry is having a Mindstorms robotics competition on December 4th. It would be a good idea to couple that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | 2000 catalog FOUND!
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| Acting on the tip from the RTL post, I stopped by Target today on my way home from work and picked up a snow speeder. Jackpot! I'm scanning it now... KL (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Brickshelf.com updates for 11/8/1999
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| Updates for 11/8/1999 (last update was 10/28/1999) New features: HTML page for each image with next/previous links New scans: [11/08/1999] 0365-1975 Wild West Scene [11/05/1999] 0334 {Truck with Flatbed} links: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray for LEGO ray-tracing
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| A new newsgroup lugnet.cad.ray has just been created. CHARTER/PURPOSE ===...=== -> lugnet.cad.ray (group): Ray-Tracing as it applies to LEGO: software tools and libraries; tips & techniques; in-depth technical discussions about element modeling, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Three Cheers
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| [Crossposted to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, and lugnet.announce; followups to lugnet.dear-lego] All, This is a rally for everyone to give a round of applause to the LEGO Group for its unprecedented overture this past week. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Re: New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| (...) Oops, almost forgot CyberMaster (thanks, Ralph!)... (...) lugnet.robotics.cybermaster (group): LEGO TECHNIC CyberMaster™ programmable brick: software, ideas, radio link, connections to/from/with other programmable bricks and host machines, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | New robotics sub-groups for RCX-Java, Palm Pilot, Telerobotics, VLL, Scout, Micro Scout, and Code Pilot
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| Seven new subgroups of lugnet.robotics have just been created, covering the following topics: - JVM/Java/Jini for RCX - Palm Pilot / Palm Computing - Telerobotics - LEGO MINDSTORMS Visible Light Link (VLL) protocol - LEGO MINDSTORMS Scout (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Charters for product-line/themed groups clarified
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| All, The written charters for the product-line/themed groups created a couple months ago were too restrictive and over-simplified. Except for lugnet.trains and lugnet.starwars, which were created at the beginning, the themed groups mentioned only (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Fabuland group (was: Re: 34 new newsgroups!)
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| (...) Oh, my!...Fabuland got lost in the shuffle somewhere. OK, there's now a Fabuland group: lugnet.fabuland <==> (URL) can't believe nobody noticed! I *know* there are tons of Fabuland fans out there! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Been to Datsville Lately?
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| If you haven't, check it out at www.lugnet.com/cad/datsville. Lots of great new archetecture has been added, and minifigs have started to appear (even if some seem to be "floating"). Residential lots in central Datsville are becoming scarce. If (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Updated web site
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| I've updated my web site at: (URL) still contains mostly links, but I've copied all the stuff off my AOL web page, so now there's some non-LEGO stuff there also (some of which may be of interest - some caving and train pictures). I've been slowly (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | BAYLIT suggestions
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| All: (This hurts) I'm reaching an impasse with BAYLIT. My job situation will soon require me to travel extensively, severely impacting my ability to run BAYLIT. I don't know how long this will last - could be awhile Thus, I would appreciate your (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | NELUG Star Wars Display in The Construction Site store window
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| For those that are interested, Dave Eaton, Shaun Sullivan, and Eric Kingsley have set up the NELUG Star Wars display in the store window of The Construction Site in Waltham MA. (URL) can see some pictures at the NELUG site. Unfortunately because it (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab
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| A new newsgroup/mailing-list lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab has just been created. ROBOLAB is a cross-platform (PC & Mac) graphical environment for programming the LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System (e.g., RCX). ROBOLAB, like NQC, does not (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.admin.general)
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