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Re: Has the RIS 1.5 been discontinued??
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:23:40 GMT
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saynotospam
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The 2.0 may have improvements, but at $110 or so US, the 1.5 is hard
to pass up, for someone just starting out with the RIS. LEGO
certainly won't be lowering the MSRP on 2.0! :)
Andy
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:05:18 GMT, Dean Husby <nntp@akasa.bc.ca> wrote:
> John Barnes wrote:
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> > Dean wrote:
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> > > The 2.0's should be out any time now. 2.0 is WORTH waiting for!
> >
> > Why? I thought it was basically the same thing? Yellow brick
> > with two motors, two touch sensors and a light sensor. They haven't
> > added anything special have they? and somehow kept it quiet ...
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> USB tower. No battery. You will soon see a new host of software that can
> poll all the time.
> The Power Adapter port is back. This should really save on Batteries. I
> have 3 1.0 bricks. Would not buy a 1.5.
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> And it's rumored that the extra 16k of addressable ROM/RAM is going to
> be used...
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> Dean
> --
> Coin-Op's For Sale!: http://www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm/coin-op.html
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> Vancouver Lego Club: http://www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc
>
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| (...) USB tower. No battery. You will soon see a new host of software that can poll all the time. The Power Adapter port is back. This should really save on Batteries. I have 3 1.0 bricks. Would not buy a 1.5. And it's rumored that the extra 16k of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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