RE: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-07 Thread Cliff Pritchard
Yep Ok anyone remember Bayko - had many hours of enjoyment with these in the early 50's as well as Meccano and dinky toys. http://www.melright.com/bayko/ At 09:42 AM 06/09/06, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Mc Donnell Lego ! Just shows what babies you

[Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Texler, Michael
Ah the youth of today... Lego has become less popular too (hard to believe for such an excellent toy). I remember building many lego aircraft when I was young (that was in the days when the lego bricks were rectangular and there were very few specialised pieces (i.e. wheels, windows, flat

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Texler, Michael wrote: Lego has become less popular too (hard to believe for such an excellent toy). Which is a shame, because Lego Mindstorms seems pretty cool. A Lego brick with a 16 bit microcontroller built-in, connections for various input and output devices (like sensors and servo

RE: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Catherine Conway
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: [Aus-soaring] Lego Ah the youth of today... Lego has become less popular too (hard to believe for such an excellent toy). I remember building many lego aircraft when I was young (that was in the days when the lego bricks

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Tom Wilksch
Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:39 PM Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Lego Really ? My kids are certainly keen on it. (including minestorm) and there was always plenty

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Don Ingram
Mark Newton wrote: Texler, Michael wrote: Lego has become less popular too (hard to believe for such an excellent toy). Which is a shame, because Lego Mindstorms seems pretty cool. A Lego brick with a 16 bit microcontroller built-in, connections for various input and output devices (like

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Dave and Cath
- Original Message - From: Texler, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime Pink Floyd? Dave Long ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
:12 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego - Original Message - From: Texler, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime Pink Floyd? Dave Long ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Jason Armistead
At 06:42 PM 5/09/2006, Dave Long wrote: - Original Message - From: Texler, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime Pink Floyd? Dave Long Apparently so Dave. Doing a Google search for those words reveals the song is

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread John Giddy
Christopher Mc Donnell wrote: Lego ! Just shows what babies you all are. I had a Meccano set with real nuts and bolts, levers axles etc. and a metho powered little steam engine to drive the things I built. Imagine the fun lawyers would have with a little steam boiler in the lounge room in

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Christopher Mc Donnell wrote: Lego ! Just shows what babies you all are. I had a Meccano set with real nuts and bolts, levers axles etc. and a metho powered little steam engine to drive the things I built. Imagine the fun lawyers would have with a little steam boiler in the lounge room in

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Hart
Christopher Mc Donnell wrote: Lego ! Just shows what babies you all are. I had a Meccano set with real nuts and bolts, levers axles etc. and a metho powered little steam engine to drive the things I built. Imagine the fun lawyers would have with a little steam boiler in the lounge room in

Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Bruce Taylor
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego Christopher Mc Donnell wrote: Lego ! Just shows what babies you all are. I had a Meccano set with real nuts and bolts, levers axles etc. and a metho powered little steam engine to drive the things I built. Imagine the fun lawyers would have with a little

RE: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Anthony Smith
of the national lego building competition once too.) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Taylor Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 7:32 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Lego But Lego and Meccano

RE: [Aus-soaring] Lego

2006-09-05 Thread Kittel, Stephen W \(ETSA\)
-Original Message- From: Christopher Mc Donnell Lego ! Just shows what babies you all are. I had a Meccano set with real nuts and bolts, levers axles etc. and a metho powered little steam engine to drive the things I built. Imagine the fun lawyers would have with a little