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| | | (...) Argh! Does that mean that the RIS will be disontinued soon?? I wanted to pick up at least one more this year (and the toy store is sold out at the moment). (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | RE: Mindstorms in 1999 —Rich Thompson
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| | | | | Why wait...Pitsco has the RCX brick (without all of the other RIS stuff) for $120US. I just ordered another one and it is in stock. Don't have the number handy, but you can get there from (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | RE: Mindstorms in 1999 —Luis Villa
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| | | | | | | Rich- When you say "without all the other RIS stuff" do you mean without the software or without EVERYTHING else, like gears and the like? I looked on the site, but it really doesn't even mention mindstorms at all, as far as I can tell. Luis (...) (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | RE: Mindstorms in 1999 —Rich Thompson
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| | | | | | | | Yes, you can just buy the brick (nothing else). Pitsco part# N979709 for $120US. The specific URL is (URL) Message----- From: Luis Villa [mailto:liv@duke.edu] Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 10:46 AM To: Rich Thompson Cc: Mark Tarrabain; (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | RE: Mindstorms in 1999 —Alex Wetmore
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| | | | | | (...) touch sensors, a light sensor, and another 700+ bricks by just buying the Mindstorms set? Just the motors and sensors alone would cost you the $80 from Pitsco. Its like getting 700 pieces for free. alex -- Did you check the web site first?: (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | RE: Mindstorms in 1999 —Rich Thompson
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| | | | | | Good point. But if you have many motors, gears, parts, etc. Why pay for mindstorms? My first RCX was from the Mindstorms set, but the other ones have not been...they are from Pitsco. Rich (URL) Message----- From: alex wetmore [mailto:alex@phred.org] (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | Wow. I REALLY hope that Lego does not stop production of the Mindstorms RCX as we know it. I don't know about other places, but here at RIT we are SERIOUSLY considering using them to do some Karol the Robot type artificial intelligence projects with (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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