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  RCX 1.0 and RCX 1.5 - ANY differences???
 
I just purchased 20+ LEGO Mindstorm kits from DACTA (to use in a freshmen Elementary Computer Programming course) and they came with the RCX 1.0 units (with the power jack). Are these units (other than having this jack) ANY different functionally (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: RCX 1.0 and RCX 1.5 - ANY differences???
 
I think only RCX1.0 and coming RCX2.0, you confused RIS1.0 and RIS1.5 Here is a list, maybe it is useful: RCX RIS Release 1.0 1.0 1998 1.0 1.5 1999 2.0 2.0 2001 Zhengrong (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: RCX 1.0 and RCX 1.5 - ANY differences???
 
The only difference between the 1.0 and 1.5 hardware is the power jack. IMO, the 1.0 RCX is more valuable because of this. I'm not sure if the 2.0 firmware will run on the 1.0 & 1.5 but I can't imagine LEGO would put out an upgrade that wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: RCX 1.0 and RCX 1.5 - ANY differences???
 
I just installed the software for Vision Command. VC uses the 2.0 firmware. I have not had any problems with the 2.0 firmware on my RCX 1.0 brick (from the RIS 1.5 set). According to Mindstorms tech support the 2.0 firmware is final . The only thing (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: RCX 1.0 and RCX 1.5 - ANY differences???
 
(...) I've been running the alpha 2.0 firmware on my 1.0 RCX for a while now. Works great, extra features are useful. (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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