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From: andrew@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Andrew Wheeler)
Subject: LEGO Technics group purchase
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 20:34:24 GMT
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hello all,


	As many of you probably know, a very large (>300!) group
	purchase of 6.270 robot controller boards is going on right
	now, and after looking at the price tags of the reccomended
	LEGO kits to go along w/ this stuff, I thought that perhaps
	we could convince LEGO to do a group purchase thing for us.

	If you're interested, then email me at my below address
	(don't "respond" to this message - it won't work due to 
	funky bug in news server).  Right now I am just looking
	for a head count of interested parties.  Once I get a 
	good idea of the quantity of kits, then I'll call LEGO
	Dacta and see if they're interested in cutting us a deal.  

	The kits I'm looking into right now are what Fred Martin suggests
	in his 6.270 guide: the Universal Buggy (item 1038, $57), and
	the Supplemental Set (item 9605, $185) - though this is still
	up in the air.  I know I don't want to spend $200 on LEGO's. . .

	Again, this is just a head count - I haven't directly talked
	to LEGO yet, so nothing may come of this; I just want to go
	to LEGO w/ at least a rough estimate of quantities. . .


-andrew


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Andrew Wheeler 
Applied Research Laboratories
University of Texas at Austin
andrew@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu  <-- use this address, don't "respond" to nn!
512/835-3114
