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Re: Is Super Car Y2K Compliant? [was: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???]
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Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:55:35 GMT
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Um. Cyberia.. I discovered to my dismay, that the Lego IR tower and software on
windows is touchier about IRQ than Linux is about PnP devices. My tower will
only work on Com2 because my Mouse is on COM1 (IRQ4) and my modem is COM3(IRQ4),
if I disconnect the mouse and connect the IR tower to COM1 then Mindstorms
software cannot find the tower. I spent 20 minuts with Lego Tech support getting
it working on COM2 (my bad..had to beat up my network card and Win95..it kept
trying to put the NIC on IRQ3 despite my demands to put it on IRQ11).
Cyberia wrote:
> 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 mindstorms software just can't seem to
> communicate with the RCX although it does find the tower. The NQC compiler
> works just fine with the RCX on COM3, however.
>
> --
> SeeYa !
> ------------
> Jim
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
> From the keyboard of Cyberia - (the machine's name, not mine)
>
> Russell Nelson <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
> news:19990101051219.11838.qmail@desk.crynwr.com...
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > -russ nelson <rn-sig@crynwr.com> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
> > Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence
> > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | that freedom is the
> > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | cause of world peace.
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Technical Support requests should be sent to support@opendisc.com
Joe Greene
Technical Support
OpenDisc Systems, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado, 80301-2442 USA
303-546-0460
Joe_Greene@OpenDisc.Com
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