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RE: LEGO 2001
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:12:33 GMT
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John Barnes <barnes@sensors.comANTISPAM>
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>Jeff wrote:
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>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 a handful of us here? If just
1/100 of the
people out there were buying books from Dave and Jonathan and sensors from
people like me, we could all go full time! Well, maybe ..
Does that mean there are 10s of 1000s of RCXs out there languishing in
closets unused!
What a waste!
JB
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Message has 2 Replies:
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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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| (...) 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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| | RE: LEGO 2001
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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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