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The scans are interesting, but I'm afraid there isn't much excitement robotics-wise. An interesting note: The serial number on one of the RCX bricks in the scans is 502273. The earliest serial number I can find is in my RCX 1.0 Constructopedia: (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Jeffrey Hazen (11:58 AM 10.25.2000) wrote: >The scans are interesting, but I'm afraid there isn't much excitement >robotics-wise. > >An interesting note: The serial number on one of the RCX bricks in the >scans is 502273. The earliest serial number (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ahhhh, the lure of numbers :-) (...) Agreed. I know about a half dozen kids that have these sets, and most of them would rather watch TV! Don't forget that a lot of these kits are in schools. They are dumped on teachers that have little or no (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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>Jeff wrote: > >That means (with some assumptions about completeness) Lego has banged out >over half a million of these yellow bricks.... Really? Even one tenth that number is still a sea of yellow bricks! So where is everybody? Why are there only (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have bricks numbered 026985, 131860 &155226. All 1.0's. So I don't think the first number is a control number. I have a friend that has an 008xxx brick. He picked his up the same week as me so there was no relations to the numbers and (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (I have 191316 - a 1.0 set that was bought in July this year - so it was probably a late-model 1.0) (...) Well, I'm a little suprised that Lego went to all the expense to number each RCX individually - but given that they evidently did, I (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Lego had pics of the RCX factory up on their site a year ago. The one pic they showed showed about 100,000 bricks in boxes and whatnot. I think the number is legit. The number isn't used for anything other then the MS website. Most items (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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