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Re: CyberMaster mail order in UK ??
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:16:09 GMT
Original-From: 
Nick Taylor <ntaylor@iname.com>
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Will someone please point me toward a CyberrMaster mail or
telephone or online sales company in the UK.

Thanks,
- - - Nick - - -

Peter Ljungstrand wrote:

> At +0000 12/11/98 15:44, you wrote:
> > At 15:36 11-12-1998 Friday , you wrote:
> > > I would like to purchase a CyberMaster for my kids (and
> > > maybe for me).  Are they sold anywhere in the US or
> > > Canada?
> > 
> > Someone said that the US and Canada don't sell the CyberMaster because of
> the FCC rules of radio interference that CyberMaster might create (I never
> noticed any interference with anything, though).
> > My guess is that you'll never see one of those sold anywhere in America.
> > 
> > You have to make like us in Europe to get a MindStorms:
> > We go to the Sates to buy one, you have to come here to buy one.
> 
> Try to find a place, preferable in the UK (because then you get the
> software in English), that sells the CyberMaster through mailorder, and
> ships internationally. Perhaps someone from the UK could help us out on
> this one?
> 
> I am not 100% sure if it really is the FFC regulations that stops Lego from
> selling CM in the USA, or just the Lego Group making a market experiment,
> with different products on different markets, at least for a while.
> Mindstorms will be sold all over Europe next year, when all translations of
> the software is done.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Peter Ljungstrand,  Viktoria Institute
> 
> Email:          peter@informatics.gu.se
> Phone:          +46-(0)31-7735543        Mobile:                +46-(0)708-302251
> Fax:                    +46-(0)31-7735530        ICQ:           6820636
> Visitors:               Viktoriagatan 13, 7th floor
> Snail-mail:     Box 620, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden



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(...) the FCC rules of radio interference that CyberMaster might create (I never noticed any interference with anything, though). (...) Try to find a place, preferable in the UK (because then you get the software in English), that sells the (...) (28 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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