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Subject: 
Re: Mindstorm Recall?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date: 
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:09:36 GMT
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"Sean Harrington" <harrington@macgenius.com> writes:
> 
> I suspect that the component bags WILL be salvaged for 2.0 kit production. I
> don't know enough about the internal differences between the 1.5 RCX and the
> 2.0 RCX to say whether or not those will be reused or just given to service

The difference in parts seems to be minor, look here:
http://207.236.16.161/JinSato/MindStorms/RIS2.0/Images/ris2part.gif

Then of course the RCX 1.5 doesn't have a power adaptor,
so they won't be able to recycle them.
Also, as far as I could see, DACTA always sold bricks with
the power adaptor.

Jürgen "should I rush for a discount or wait for 2.0?"

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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  Re: Mindstorm Recall?
 
(...) The FLL kit received this August was from DACTA and DID NOT have the power adaptor. -Peter Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots (26 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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(...) My mother-in-law runs a toy store chain, and she got a stock-balancing note from TLC requesting the old 1.5 kits back. It stated that the 2.0 kits will be out in Q1 of 2001. No mention of upgrade kits. I suspect that the component bags WILL be (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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