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Fw: Mindstorms in 1999
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:56:20 GMT
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Tom Rowton <TROWTON@BROADCAST.COMsaynotospam>
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I think a more interesting stat would be a numbers comparison(with
demographics) between the 'official' discussion threads on the mindstorms
site vs. the lego discussion here at crynwr.com
trowt
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Knudsen <jonathan@oreilly.com>
To: Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com>; lego-robotics@crynwr.com
<lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Mindstorms in 1999
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:
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> > 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.
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> 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
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