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Re: Mindstorm Recall?
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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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(...) The FLL kit received this August was from DACTA and DID NOT have the power adaptor. -Peter Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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