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From: fritzson@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Richard Fritzson)
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Subject: Re: LEGO Logo?
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Date: 11 Jan 88 12:37:11 GMT
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In article <610@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM writes:
>
>I recently read Stewart Brand's book "The Media Lab", which is about MIT's
>media lab.  One of the projects Brand writes about is "LEGO/Logo", an interface
>between an Apple IIe running Logo and the LEGO system of building blocks.
>Has anybody seen this, or a similar computer/toy interface scheme?  Most
>importantly, where and when will it be available?

I saw it in a travelling computer/robots museum exhibit in the Philadelphia 
Franklin institute. It was listed as being from some small computer company 
whose name I hadn't heard before and can't remember now. They did not say it 
was a prodcut then (a year ago). 

It was neat. They had constructed a model factory with a variety of moving 
parts. The best part was a moving cart which was programmed to follow a 
painted line on the table by scanning back and forth over it with a light 
cell. The program that did this was four or five lines of Logo. The program 
was displayed on screen as it executed. 

I would like to know if it is available; I'd probably buy it for my home
system (not an Apple II).

	-Rich Fritzson
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