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Re: Dropping your RCX on the floor...
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:14:15 GMT
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Tobias Möller  <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote:
I've dropped my RCX two times (actually, first mine, then my brothers...
Ooops...), and both time, the only thing that happened was that the RCX
couldn't remember it's firmware... I thought it would break, but it didn't...

Loss of firmware... perhaps the batteries temporarily lost their connection
when you dropped the RCX?  Was the RCX on at the time?

-Kekoa



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  Re: Dropping your RCX on the floor...
 
Yes, it was on, and when I picked it up, it was turned off. I thought "No! It's broken!" but you could turn it on, and the firmware was gone. But doesn't the batteries need to be disconnected for like a minute for the firmware to be erased from (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  Dropping your RCX on the floor...
 
I've dropped my RCX two times (actually, first mine, then my brothers... Ooops...), and both time, the only thing that happened was that the RCX couldn't remember it's firmware... I thought it would break, but it didn't... Anyone who was not this (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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