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Subject: 
Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:21:21 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Kyle McDonald wrote:
If there was a $400-$500 RCX available at
the time, I a large portion of those 20,000 adult sales would have been
the higher end model. Or if there was a $200 expansion pack for more I/O
and memory I bet a majority of the 20,000 would have gotten expanded.

Just to play devils advocate for a minute, but you don't know how many adults
need the upgraded version. Some of the truly hardcore users hang out here but
they are only a relatively small amount of people.

A normal rcx is good enough for me (now that we have Swan, giving us more
variables, etc).

Steve



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  Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
 
(...) I agree. When the RCX was found to have limitations in the enthusiast community I can't say I blamed LEGO that much. With the RCX they didn't know they were going to have a market with hobbyists anywhere near that size. Now we have the NXT. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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