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Re: Studless Technic models
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:07:36 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, James Loewen wrote:

[snip]

> 
> > I think that Mindstorms is a good example of the sudden changes in Technic
> > because it is only 2-3 years old,
> 
> Try 5-6.  RIS 1.0 came out in 1998.
> 
> > ...uses stud connections for all the electronic components, and it seems
> > like Lego doesn't think that maintaining compatibility between it and the
> > new Technic sets is a priority.
> 
> For all that they keep saying that Mindstorms isn't dead, we haven't really seem
> much lately to suggest that it's all that alive either.  Anyways, doesn't the
> RCX itself have pin holes that can be used to attach it to stuff?  I agree that
> it doesn't make sense to make the various Mindstorms gizmos incompatible with
> the modern TECHNIC sets, but I see that more as a problem with designing them to
> be incompatible with TECHNIC connections in the first place.  If they do revive
> Mindstorms for the retail market, hopefully they'll make it fully TECHNIC
> compatible this time.

In fact the RCX *does* have pin holes.  Only four of them, but they are there.
Two half pin holes on each side.

[snip]

I guess I'm not the only one who was lots of energy about the studless beam
bashing.

Kevin



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  Re: Studless Technic models
 
(...) Exactly. And the more reinforcements you have to add, the more _extra_ pieces it requires. To my mind, that's no different than requiring a similar number of extra pieces in instances where you desire full System compatibility. (...) Both (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)

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