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Re: Is Super Car Y2K Compliant? [was: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???]
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Fri, 1 Jan 1999 05:12:19 GMT
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Russell Nelson <NELSON@CRYNWRstopspam.COM>
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Kekoa Proudfoot writes:
> Dave Forrest <davef@shmoopie.com> wrote:
> >I was wondering if there will be any problem using the RCX and
> >the computer software from Lego when we roll over to the
> >year 2000.
>
> Along those lines, does anybody know if the 8880 Super Car has any Y2K
> problems?  That is one of my favorite sets, and I don't want it to break
> a year from now.

Well, *my* big fear is that my old 132 Basic Train isn't Y2K
compliant.  It's the older systems you have to watch out for.  I mean,
it's over thirty years old -- *nobody* thought they'd still be working
in the year 2000.

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  Re: Is Super Car Y2K Compliant? [was: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???]
 
Y2K ?! heck, I'd be happy to use lego mindstorms NOW in 1999. It seems I MUST have my IR tower as COM1 or COM2 (the built-in motherboard ports), either that or the software does not like my Equinox super serial card. With the IR tower on COM3 the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Is Super Car Y2K Compliant? [was: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???]
 
(...) Along those lines, does anybody know if the 8880 Super Car has any Y2K problems? That is one of my favorite sets, and I don't want it to break a year from now. -Kekoa (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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