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Subject: 
Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 05:52:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> This is great! Good publicity never hurts! Tom, how did you get into this
> article? I mean, how did the newspaper find you?


I also got an email from the reporter, but didn't have time to
respond.  Perhaps she tracked down mindstorms users in the Bay Area.

> Although I'm not into mindstorms so much, this is interesting - I didn't
> realize that mindstorms helped TLC recover it's 1998 losses...

Gee, if Mindstorms was so sucessful with adults, shouldn't they
release Mindstorms Jr. for the kids?  Something with one-piece
gear boxes, large pre-constructed frames, and vacuformed storage
containers? :)

-gyug



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(...) This is great! Good publicity never hurts! Tom, how did you get into this article? I mean, how did the newspaper find you? Although I'm not into mindstorms so much, this is interesting - I didn't realize that mindstorms helped TLC recover it's (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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