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Where'd they hide the RIS?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:54:15 GMT
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John Barnes wrote:
> I just got the new Lego S@H catalog and almost all the Mindstorms
> related products have gone!
Very interesting, and not in a good way. :(
How often does the S@H catalog come out? I wonder if Lego is just keeping
quiet on Mindstorms until RIS 2.0 is available.
> You don't suppose the hit counter on the Mindstorms website is telling
> TLC a story we'd rather not hear do you?
The bean counters carry a lot more weight than a web counter. While
Mindstorms certainly has been popular, I wonder how PROFITABLE it's been
for Lego. This isn't flame-bait or a snub; I'm honestly curious.
Maintaining the programming and R&D obviously makes for a lot of overhead,
especially for someone mainly in the toy industry. I wonder if this is
where Microsoft comes in, and we just haven't seen the products yet.
Greg Betzel
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Where'd they hide the RIS?
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| I just received the latest Pitsco Lego-Dacta catalog and all of the Mindstorms and RoboLab products have vanished here also?? Not good! Jim James H. Morris (Jim) Heathwood Hall Episcopal School 3000 South Beltline Blvd. Columbia, SC 29201 ----- (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Where'd they hide the RIS?
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| (...) Well, when I expressed my concern to Lego about the Microsoft tie-in, they sent me a nice letter in reply saying that the tie in was mainly to do with the Lego computer games and that Mindstorms software wouldn't be affected. (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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