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(...) 100% (...) i gotta learn more about bill gates. i know of no other guy who can consistantly 'break' things and standards, and force hardware ideas that have so many problems, and still become a bulti-billion-gazillionaire... (most original (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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i'm Chris. i must apologize and yeah, i find it irritating to get back a bunch of acks or to get a 'send receipt' notice from a mailing list/newsgroup when reading. in defense, the yahoo groups(where i post alot) appear to strip out the requests so (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Until you try the IR tower on another computer (that is not identical to yours), you have no way of knowing if the tower is the problem is in the USB device or in the USB chipset. At this point, I'd cut my losses (and time) short and spend $25 on a (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I've also heard that USB and Plug-and-Play support on Windows 2000 is not 100% reliable and probably never will be no matter how many service packs you install. (...) I would agree with this. Although the serial tower requires a 9V battery and (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I am at home now, tried my tower on my home pc and it works there (different computer), so I know now that the tower is ok. I have contacted the VIA support, to see what they think about the matter. I am going to install bricxCC to see if it (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks for your advice, but I am in sweden. Here it is not so easy to find parts and not all the companies sell internationally. My other concern is that if it really is my computer that doesnt work, it might not work will the seril tower (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You're right, many sellers will not ship internationally. You can click the following link to search BrickLink for a serial tower (cable sold separately) although there is only one listed for sale right now, and the seller ships in the U.S. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just about every time I read a message from "Chris" in this newsgroup, my browser asks if I want to send a reply indicating I received the message. I have some problems with this. First of all I don't like having e-mail trigger unexpected activity. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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