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Does this mean that RIS 1.0s are going to rapidly become *more* valuable than RIS 1.5s?! Stuart PS That seems a very cheap price - I thought they were $210? (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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I just pulled out my receipt. It was $155.97. That's 20% off their normal price. I bought the last one at my store here in Champaign, Illinois. I don't know where the other stores are. If I remember correctly, they had the Droid system for about (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: RCX Firmware and SP
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(...) Unfortunately, yes. The current version of pbFORTH allocates a 256 byte stack, but it's JUST above a 256 byte boundary. When you run the test code, everything works, but if your stack depth is around 12 and you run SENSOR_READ, it allocates (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Wot no RCX power connector?
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(...) My guess is it vanished after they got too many "defective" units back after folks started putting adapters with the wrong voltage on their bricks. Even a wired voltage spike might kill the brick. The battery route is safer from a product (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean that TLG have effectively been lying if they claimed that the RCX unit itself is still the RCX 1.0? It seems like it may be worthwhile complaining (does anyone know an email address for (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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That's terrible! I've found the AC adapter plug to be very useful. We use the AC adapter port primarily to conserve batteries while programming/testing our RCX. I also once tried to avoid having to re-download the firmware and my programs by (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Did you buy a second RCX, or a second RIS? (The RIS is the big MindStorms set; the RCX is just the "programmable brick." You either got a great price on the RIS {salivating} or a lousy price for the RCX ... --Doug Wilcox -----Original Message----- (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Wot no RCX power connector?
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(...) It still says "RCX 1.0" on it. It appears identical in all regards to pictures I've seen online, except the end opposite the IR transceiver is totally smooth and blank, and there are two extra studs on top above where the socket was. That end (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm not sure if its worth complaining about...operationally its still the same product even if you can't plug it into a wall wart. I'm more concerned with any changes to the ROM. Perhaps Kekoa can shed some light on this if someone was to ship (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Is mindstorms available in Europe ? Even more specific in the Netherlands. What does it cost ? Thanks, Jan. (26 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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