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Re: LEGO 2001
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:29:31 GMT
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John Barnes wrote:

> > 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 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

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 locales...

Dean
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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