Re: Hello world
Perry Wagle <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:46:48 -0700
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They aren=E2=80=99t in mint condition, and they require running 20 year = old software and serial ports to run out of the paper box. I wouldn=E2=80=99t torture a newbie with kits that are missing pieces, = etc. Someone did that to me when I tried to get the original MIT kit = going years ago, and it wasted a lot of time. I think I=E2=80=99d rank these more as =E2=80=9Cspare parts=E2=80=9D = than =E2=80=9Ccomplete functioning kits=E2=80=9D. =E2=80=94 Perry > On Sep 17, 2018, at 11:50 AM, Perry Wagle <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > Blast from the past! >=20 > I have two late 1990=E2=80=99s Mindstorms and two =E2=80=9CUltimate = Accessory Kits=E2=80=9D in some disarray that I wouldn=E2=80=99t mind = giving a good home. >=20 > Anyone interested? >=20 > =E2=80=94 Perry >=20 >> On Sep 17, 2018, at 11:43 AM, Merlin Hansen = <[email protected]> wrote: >>=20 >> Hate to say it but Shawn is pretty well correct. >>=20 >> Not saying that reviving this group would not be a bad thing. =F0=9F=99= =82 >>=20 >> I=E2=80=99d be interested in seeing your progress and ideas. >>=20 >> Cheers >> Merlin >>=20 >> Sent from my iPhone >>=20 >>> On Sep 17, 2018, at 10:08, Shawn Menninga Pedersen = <[email protected]> wrote: >>>=20 >>> Yours is the first message I've seen from the list in nearly four >>> years (though I may have missed a few since I don't even have an >>> inbox rule set up for it any more...) And I only have around 70 >>> messages total from the four years prior to that, so unless there's >>> a WHOLE lot of traffic I haven't been seeing, it's pretty well dead >>> around here. Sorry! >>>=20 >>> --- >>> Shawn Menninga Pedersen >>> [email protected] >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>> On 2018-09-17 00:27, Evan Koblentz wrote: >>>> Just joined tonight. Is anyone here? (I wasn't clear if the list if >>>> active or basically defunct.) >>>> I'm looking for a place to discuss the various Lego robot kits from >>>> before the Mindstorms era. >>>> I am making a web site about this topic, just for fun: >>>> http://www.mindsbeforethestorm.com >>>> I also made a Facebook group of the same name. >>>> Hopefully I'm not alone in enjoying that topic. >>>=20 >>=20 >=20