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Re: Mindstorms in 1999
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:42:21 GMT
Original-From: 
Jonathan Knudsen <jonathan@oreilly#spamcake#.com>
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At 12:59 AM 2/10/99 GMT, Jasper Janssen wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:20:43 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Russell
Nelson) wrote:

Jonathan Knudsen writes:
Lego still thinks they're making this for kids.

There are currently 772 people on the mailing list.

_That_ many? Jees..  add 21 from lugnet email, and probably plenty
from lugnet nntp & web access.. makes at least 1000 adult users, with
probably 1500 or more RCXs between them.

Makes you think, doesn't it? That's a significant percentage of the
30000 (?) or so RCXs they've sold so far...

In a December Wall Street Journal article, John Dion
at Lego estimated they would sell 80,000 units in 1998.
So we're not really such a big percentage of the total,
even though we've got a pretty big group here.

Jonathan

--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: Mindstorms in 1999
 
(...) Don't sell yourself (and the rest of us) short. 1+% of a product run that large is nothing to sneeze at. Daniel "Dan'l" Miller Senior, School of Aeronautics and danielmi@ecn.purdue.edu Astronautics, Purdue, Indiana "Stadtluft macht frei." - (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Mindstorms in 1999
 
Jonathan Knudsen writes: > Lego still thinks they're making this for kids. There are currently 772 people on the mailing list. (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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