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Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:20:53 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail/AntiSpam/.net>
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John Barnes wrote:
> I think it would be foolish to try and ignore the writing on the wall. I
> hope they continue to find a way to support all the educational
> organizations from schools to colleges to universities who bought into the
> whole Mindstorms things as a teaching resource, otherwise those institutions
> are going to have a job replacing worn and damaged parts.
Well, Pitsco are still selling RCX's 1.0's with the external power supply
socket - so either they keep *HUGE* inventory - or they have some route to
Lego's old inventory for many years after the part has been discontinued.
> And yes, I totally agree with your final conclusion - its time to take
> seriously the whole issue of what has to be provided to take the place of
> what TLC started - and somewhat sooner than I had anticipated the need to.
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> And now, it appears there's less reason to keep the interconnect system Lego
> compatible, since there obviously won't be anything to be compatible with.
The bad part about that will be producing things like motors. It would
be hard to build a 3rd party motor without full injection molding capability
and a LOT of engineering resources. In the relatively small runs you could
hope to sell them in, they'd come out pretty damned expensive.
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| Yeah, serious business huh! I will investigate the Pitsco source, but I have a feeling that it may be limited too. I think TLC are quietly pulling the plug on their whole 9v system. You can't buy 9v train connectors anymore, you now can't buy these (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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