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So work gives me a new laptop
PIII 1GHz, 30 GigHD, DVD/CDRW, etc etc... Toshiba 3000--nice
So I get everything installed, having a great time with it for the week.
Get home last night, went to d/l a program to my RCX and is the first time I
realize the stupid thing has *no* serial port!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!
How can these manufacturers not include a serial port!! Shame!!
So anyone have a USB tower they wanna sell me?
LEGO Systems wants 38 dollars US to send me a 'replacement' tower, and I
hafta get a money order together (S@H takes Visa, Replacement is COD--waht's
with that?)
Anyway, programming/testing is stopped on Runamok 'bot until this gets
worked out.
Dave
p.s. this happened halfway thru West Wing last night--this show just
continues to get better. It's *almost* replacing Sports Night as my
favourite show of all time.
Sports Night
West Wing
B5
MASH
In that particular order ;)
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| (...) Actually there's been an overall PC industry goal of legacy free PCs lately (ie, USB and Firewire externally only, so no more IEEE1284 parallel, RS232 serial, PS2 key/mouse etc) and laptops have led the charge. I had to fight to get a Latitude (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:Gqt9uF.KzE@lugnet.com... (...) Is that the name you're using? "Runamok 'bot"? I sure hope not, because that sounds like crap, Dave. Oh wait, your robot *is*. AHAHAHAHA :) Iain (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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