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Re: Where'd they hide the RIS?
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:46:54 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@AIRMAILavoidspam.NET>
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Greg Betzel wrote:

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.

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.

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  RE: Where'd they hide the RIS?
 
I think you guys are a little mixed up. Look at the back cover of the Pitsco catalog you just received. You will see 4 catalogs pictured one of which is the Pitsco Lego Dacta catalog that you probably received about a month ago. I was tickled to get (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Where'd they hide the RIS?
 
(...) 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. (...) The bean counters carry a lot more weight than a web counter. While (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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