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(...) No problem on both counts! Happy to help! Jake --- Jake McKee Sr. Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I noticed the description actually was augmented later. Thanks! Also thanks for the extra info on Spybotics passed by in news/robotics. (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) or (...) (mostly (...) Dear Santa Fe Fans! Sorry, but I see no bigger need for a B-Unit-pack. As far as I see the market situation TLC can only support us AFOLs with a limited amount of sets. If there came an upgrade kit, we certainly would (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think that this may be the right approach. The market for B units is obviously a lot smaller, so a "parts pack" that includes the extra grey bricks, door pieces, and two extra windows would be all that is needed. Probably 80% of the parts (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, I for one hope that you continue to favor serial over USB. It makes it a lot easier for those of us not on the bleeding edge, and those of us who use Linux or other alternative OS's. USB is too sophisticated for something as simple as (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Wouldn't need a fancy box or anything, just a baggie / plain white box would be fine to most. That would cut some cost. Toss up instructions on the Internet and let people print it out by themselves and you win a few more cents. I'd think a (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) See: (URL) need the Spybotics CD. -Rob. (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Jake Is there documention for the bytes codes and communication, etc for the spybotics. Is it part of the sdk2 distribution? Lester Witter (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Since the B is all grey, you basically need 2 A unit models to make one B or you have to compromise on how the roof is done. Even then you're off on the portholes (many B's have 3 grey ones). You then end up with a lot of (mostly useful) (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) And then there was light... (URL) McKee Sr. Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That is great, but can it program my VCR? :-) Does this mean that the RCX 2.0 has a greater IR range than the RCX 1.x due to hardware differences? Does the new IR RC Car use the same protocol as the Bionicle Manas as well? Jude (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Great ! :) (...) Yes, VERY!!! Thanks for your fast reply :) mc. (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics)
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I was thinking the last couple days about the Sante Fe super chief, and whether or not there will be an "upgrade" kit to make the engine into a "B" unit. (I wasn't thinking about this until I had time to seriously mull the "Train Catalog" and to (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) You will have to excuse me in this info gathering process... robotics aren't really my strong point, and I am simply relaying info from those who know what they are talking about. I got a few bits of info back: EEPROM: There is a total of 4k (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm not totally clear about what you want to be convinced of. That is was a good idea, or that price/old computers was the key reason for the decision. Either way, those ARE the reasons, so I'm not sure that I could say anything that would (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) [...] (...) If a SB unit can send/receive VLL on top of having "RCX/Scout compatible" IR comms, is this scenario possible: A CyberMaster (using a VLL output pgrm) sends a VLL message to the SB unit that will send some other IR message to the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Now that I think about it, I didn't really like the reasoning behind making a serial product instead of usb. It actually sounds like an excuse to me... Not quite quoted words were, "this product is designed more for children who have hand-me-down (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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No, it sounds like a 256 byte scratch pad/heap/whatever. But do we have to reverse engineer these things? I would have thought TLC would have seen the light and would make our life easier this time around. --Jack Gregory "John Hansen" (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) According to an e-mail I received from Michael Anderson regarding the Spybotic brick there is "4k EEPROM for persistent program storage (256 bytes available for general use)" To me this sounded like only 256 bytes were available for downloaded (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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While I doubt you'd legally be able to answer this, I'm going to ask anyways, just in case you CAN... How hard would it be to replace the EEPROM with one with a larger memory capacity? ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE Internet Technical Support, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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