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Re: O'Reilly (RCX 1.5 'paranioa')
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 1 Aug 1999 05:10:29 GMT
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Julian Gómez <jeg@polishedANTISPAM-pixels.com>
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> At 20:45 31-07-1999 Saturday , Kevin Baker wrote:
> > One thing no-one seems to have connected... I find it hard to believe that
> > this book could be published without TLG support (Reviewers & other readers
> > please comment!).
The author told me that TLG is actively discouraging the book's production.
> computers (RCX/CyberMaster/etc) are the result of a project that started at
> least 3 years ago. If this is their best production speed, then we can
The project that eventually became Mindstorms was started in 1987. In a
sense, that means 11 years of development.
Remember that LEGO was until recently a plastics company. Sometimes things
start slowly and pick up speed. Note that the Mindstorms add-on kits didn't
take 11 years to develop. :-)
--
Dr. Julian "a tribble took it " Gómez
former Chief Scientist, LEGO A/S SPU-Darwin
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| (...) Like, actively discouraging it? Or passively just not encouraging it? Either way that seems really unfortunate because I'm sure it'll be widely regarded as a canonical "Step 2" when getting started with MindStorms... Step 1: Buy one or more (...) (25 years ago, 1-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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