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The following is a small part of the responses to the rec.toys.lego Roll Call. Refer to the Table of Contents or the Alphabetical Index for other parts of the Roll Call.
From: J.T.Thorpe <John.Thorpe@ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> Reply-To: John.Thorpe@ClemsonSC.NCR.COM Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:10:49 GMT Name: J.T. Thorpe Age: 26 M.S.: Single w/girlfriend Kids: None Employment: Information Systems Consultant Number of sets in collection: 16-17 Number of pieces: Why count them? Oldest set: Modular Space Transport Favorite theme: Castle & Trains Favorite set in collection: do I have to pick one? Education: BS Comp Sci - Queens College 1990 MS Comp Sci - Clemson University 1992 Location: Greenville, SC Rather interesting that my Lego preferences match up with my hobbies consistently..... J.T.Thorpe -- AT&T Global Information Solutions
From: gas@globus.ffi.no (Geir Atle Storhaug) Date: 12 Jan 1995 13:00:49 GMT Reply-To: Geir-Atle.Storhaug@ffi.no (Geir Atle Storhaug) In-reply-to: lzucaro@aol.com's message of 6 Jan 1995 00:30:45 -0500 Name: Geir Atle Storhaug Age: 32 M.S.: Married Kids: 3 (1, 3 and 5 years old) Employment: Scientist Number of Sets in Collection: about 30 sets + about 50 liters of LEGO compatible bricks Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: ca. 1991 Favorite Themes: Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Air Tech Claw Rig Education: M.Sc 1986 (University of Bergen, NORWAY) -- ____ ___ Geir Atle Storhaug / ____/\ (__ X400 : G=Geir-Atle;S=Storhaug;O=ffi;P=uninett;C=no; \___// \___) RFC : Geir-Atle.Storhaug@ffi.no Phone (office): +47-63-807658 Phone (home): +47-63-838987 Fax:+47-63-807509 Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt, FFI/VM, Postboks 25, N-2007 Kjeller, NORWAY
From: Steven_Berman@transarc.com Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:37:39 -0500 Name: Steven Berman Age: 28 M.S.: Married (Lynn) Kids: 5/9 Cats: 2 (Faraday and Grahm) Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Employment: Systems Software Developer Sets in Collection: 18 complete sets + pieces Pieces: Too many too count (Yeah!) Oldest Set: 001 American (Samsonite) Gear Set and 002 4.5 V motor pack Favorite Themes: Technic Universal sets Favorite Set in Collection: #180 Battery GoodsTrain (EUR:~1974-1976) My wife and I are rediscovering Lego (esp, with the recent clearance sales) and I love building with Technic sets. I only rue having allowed my mother to give away the basic building sets I had as a kid. I am currently constructing the "Rug Warrior" lego robot described in the book "Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation" by Joe Jones and Anita Flynn.
From: cryogen@ionet.net (Jon C. Koerber) Date: 12 Jan 1995 19:37:23 GMT Name: Jon Koerber Age: 28 M.S.: Engaged Kids: Adopt if ever Employment: Database Administrator, American Fidelity Corporation Number of Sets in Collection: 12+ Number of Pieces: Approx. 5,500 Oldest Set: 1972 Universal set (For 6th birthday in Tours, France) Favorite Themes: Anything that has moving parts (gears and junk) Favorite Set in Collection: Original technic "car chassis" 2-spd 4cyl
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:32:43 CST
From: Namir Gharaibeh <U50879@uicvm.uic.edu>
Yo. Here. I know I'm young, but I'm still growing. As is the collection.
Name: Namir Gharaibeh
Age: 23
M.S.: Single, but taken
Kids: Do cats count?
Employment: IE Student at University of IL at Chicago (last year!)
Number of Sets in Collection: roughly 50+
Number of Pieces: I build with em, not count em.
Oldest Set: A floatable ship circa 1972
Favorite Themes: Technic, and Space (Blacktron)
Favorite Set in Collection: Whirlwind Rescue chopper, and all
the Expert Builder sets.
Lifelong Ambition: To be an industrial engineer at LEGO.
Hey, if anyone's intersted, I took it upon myself to archive all
of these. Once the flow lessens, I'll post it somewhere. It's
big, I mean, BIG. :) Anyone have ideas as to where I can post
it? I may even compile statistics if I get any requests (1).
Keep the pieces! (Keep the peace, peace, pieces? Nevermind.)
| THE SNIPER'S GUILD : a.k.a. Namir Gharaibeh |
| "Proud Advocates of Creative Mayhem" : U50879@uicvm.uic.edu |
| Viscouse P'pello : University of Illinois |
| Chicago Branch, XQ Division : at Chicago |
From: btharp@infi.net (Bruce Tharp) Date: 9 Jan 1995 03:55:32 GMT In article <3eiki5$m6o@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, lzucaro@aol.com (LZucaro) says: Name: Bruce Tharp Age: 38 M.S.: Married Kids: 2 - boy 2.5 yrs, girl 15 months Employment: Owner, Association Management Company Number of Sets in Collection: None - Starting on trains this month Number of Pieces: None Oldest Set: NA Favorite Themes: Trains Favorite Set in Collection: NA
From: Chris Adams <72701.1621@CompuServe.COM> Date: 13 Jan 1995 01:12:03 GMT Name: Chris Adams Age: 30 M.S.: Married Kids: boys 2 & 5 Employment: Software Eng Number Of Sets in collection: alot (placed ad for used LEGO...) Number Of Pieces: box 2'x3'x3' full. Oldest Set: 4.5v trains Favorite Themes: masks Favorite Set: Toolo is my sons' favorites I have constructed 2 LEGO head that my son and I can wear to LEGO build contests in Connecticut. I have tried to get a job at LEGO in Enfield, CT as a LEGO modeler (US LEGO headquarters), but the best I could do is to work for the company that writes the software that LEGO (US and Denmark) uses to design the boxes that LEGO comes in. -- Chris Adams lpoint!adams@urartu.sdpa.org Artios Corp. Maker of Boxmaking CAD/CAM software tools
From: foster@mecho.cray.com (Paul Foster)
Date: 12 Jan 95 21:10:18 CST
Name: Paul Foster
Age: 28
M.S.: yes
Kids: two - 3 and 5 years old
Employment: systems engineer
Number of sets in collection: >100
Number of pieces: Lot (but not enough)
Oldest set: Lunar Lander set (multi-joint arms on people)
Favorite Themes: Technics for me, Town for kids
Favorite Set in Collection: 8862 backhoe and model Team blue/white semi
Location: Chippewa Falls, WI
Best Accomplishment: building three matching size trailers for the
model team semi
Lego peave: the model team tractor trailers each have different hitch
heights that don't make them interchangeable (without mods :)
--
Paul Foster (Foster@no2sun.cray.com) Cray Research, Inc.
From: tubesing@lanl.gov (Phil Tubesing)
Date: 12 Jan 1995 22:32:33 GMT
Name: Phil Tubesing
Age: 27
M.S.: Single
Kids: No
Employment: Operations Engineer
Education: BS Mecahnical Eng, Carnegie-Mellon: MIS Ind Safety, U Minn
Number of Sets in Collection: ~12 Universal, 5 Space, ~20 Technic
Number of Pieces: More than three
Oldest Set: Lost the box along time ago. Universal set from ~1973
Favorite Themes: Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Pneumatic Forklift
Location : Los Alamos, NM (since 1992)
Other fields: How about, the thing you have on your desk/in your pencil
case to tell others that you are a Lego addict?
1) Technic front-end loader
2) Car of my design with limites slip differential
Both on to of one of my computers
So far have been able to convert several coneheads to the world of LEGOS!!
| Phil Tubesing tubesing@lanl.gov
| Los Alamos National Labs
| M/S G770 MST-6 Sigma Complex
| Los Alamos NM 87545
| (505) 667-5479
From: akay@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Kay) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:09:34 GMT Name: Andrew Kay Age: 30 M.S.: have co-mortgagee Kids: only me, but we have two goldfish and a full size cardboard human skeleton called Yorick. Occupation: computer scientist First Sets: I don't remember (mid/late 60s) Favourite Sets: Sets? Favourite sets? Sets are just boxes of pieces. Favourite Pieces: technics length 4 "cranks" Favourite Themes: Technics, Dacta control lab Number of pieces: Way up in the high Oodles by now Special interests: walking machines, remote control, robotics Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA, United Kingdom. Telephone +44-1865 747711; Fax +44-1865-747719 Email: Andrew.Kay@prg.oxford.ac.uk or @sharp.co.uk
From: ggellert@junction.net (Gary Gellert) Date: 12 Jan 1995 09:09:50 -0800 Name: Gary Gellert Age: 25 M.S.: single Kids: none, thank God! Employment: Carpenter Number of sets in collection: 50+ Number of pieces: 10000+ Oldest set: Duplo bricks from early 70's Favorite theme: Technics Favorite set in collection: Not sure of name, but Technics Crane/ForkLift set from early 80's Education: High School Graduate Location: Lumby, BC, CANADA | ggellert@junction.net | fidonet 1:353/353.2 | amiganet 40:800/765.2 | Coming to you live from Lumby, British Columbia, CANADA
From: norska@access4.digex.net (NorskaWood) Date: 13 Jan 1995 19:06:25 -0500 Name: Vikki (aka NorskaWood) Age: 30 M.S.: Single Kids: Do cats count? Employment: Computer Scientist with a major North American government :) Number of Sets in Collection: One Basic, 2 Pirates, 2 Dragon Masters (Hey, I'm just getting started!) Number of Pieces: Beats me.... <500 Oldest Set: #720 Basic (C) 1985 Favorite Themes: Pirates, Dragon Masters Favorite Set in Collection: The newest addition, always. Currently my Magic Shop. Whine: My mommy never let me play with anything with more than one piece to it (ok, slight exaggeration), so I was a deprived child. I'm trying to catch up. :)
From: christy@hpbs2625.boi.hp.com (Christy Rohrig) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 22:28:33 GMT Reply-To: christy@hpbs2625.boi.hp.com (Christy Rohrig) Name: Christy Rohrig Age: 24 M.S.: Not yet. Kids: None that I know of (and women usually know) Employment: Development Engingeer - Hewlett Packard, Boise, ID Number of Sets in collections: Not enough (only about 6) Number of pieces: Thousands Oldest set: A 1990 Firestation (I never had cool toys as a kid) Favorite Themes: TRAINS Favorite Set in Collection : Load 'n' Haul RR (Got two of them!!!!!!! and it's soooooo cool!) Have a great year playing!!!
From: kkoehn@lichee.csil.sfu.ca (Kaari David Koehn) Date: 13 Jan 1995 22:12:47 GMT Reply-To: kkoehn@sfu.ca Name: Kaari Koehn Age: 22 M.S.: Attached Kids: at heart Education: undergrad Computer Engineering Employment: student Number of Sets: 20? Number of Pieces: 1000+ Oldest Set: 701 (Old Space) & thereabouts Themes: Old Space, Castle, Pirates Newest Set: "Runner" pirate If I weren't doing this by heart, I'd have real set numbers. I just wanted to mention that when Toys&Wheels (B.C. based chain) went bankrupt, I got good deals, but all the stuff I wanted was gone before I got there & my Pirate collection suddenly started. I re-rigged the pirate skiff for working rigging & tiller, using black thread. ____ Kaari kkoehn@sfu.ca
From: zachnzach@aol.com (ZachNZach) Date: 14 Jan 1995 00:26:00 -0500 Reply-To: zachnzach@aol.com (ZachNZach) Name: Steve Delfino & Crispin Richey Age: 27 & 30 M.S.: Unisex spousal equivalents Kids: Not yet Employment: Actuary, Financial Guy Number of Sets in Collection: ~220 Number of Pieces: 35,000 Oldest Set: Some yellow construction sets from mid 70's Favorite Themes: Town, Monorails/Trains, Aquazone, Pirates, Technic, okay, we can't decide. Favorite Set in Collection:Lego TC Logo Robotics PC interface (from Dacta) We also bought 100 Santas from a toy store that was going out of business for the ridiculous price of 23 cents each. That's our proudest lego find. Claim to Fame: Our lego addiction helped an engineer friend of ours get a job at Lego in Enfield CT. We now have an inside contact. Although she still refuses to tell us about upcoming product lines. (What a good little employee)
From: spetermc@iconz.co.nz (Peter McHaffie)
Date: 14 Jan 1995 19:18:42 GMT
Name: Alistair
Age: 15
M.S.: Not yet
Kids: No way
Employment: Student T.G.S NZ
Number of sets: A hell of alot.
Number of pieces: Gerzillions
Favorite theme: Technic is cool. I like building spaceships out of
those standard two nobble wide red pieces.
From: roy@ydwarf.demon.co.uk (Roy B Jephson) Reply-To: roy@ydwarf.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 16:58:07 +0000 Name: Roy Jephson Age: 30 M.S.: Not yet Kids: None that I know of (but men don't always know :-) ) Employment: Software Engineer - at a small company in England Number of Sets in collections: approx. 20 Number of pieces: I prefer sticking them together rather than counting them Oldest set: I don't know, probably a technics set from the mid 80's Favorite Themes: trains, space and technics Favorite Set in Collection : The big ones I've thought of a new theme but I attempted to post that to the appropriate thread. So you will have to go looking. :-) -- Roy B Jephson roy@ydwarf.demon.co.uk
From: soholder@eos.ncsu.edu (Sheldon Owen Holder) Date: 15 Jan 1995 19:15:09 GMT Reply-To: soholder@eos.ncsu.edu (Sheldon Owen Holder) Name: Owen Holder Age: 19 M.S.: It is going to be a while Kids: None Employment: I E student at North Carolina Stat University Number of Sets in collections: approx. 10 Number of pieces: Don't have them here, and have not counted Oldest set: Early-80's Basic Favorite Themes: Technics Favorite Set in Collection: Mid-80's 4.5 Volt motor Technic Set (get over it, I have not had the money to updaye yet!)
From: JWSSAUER@WEDGE.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (J Sauer) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 20:56:37 GMT Name: Jacob Sauer Age: 19 Profession: Engineering student at University of Waterloo, Canada. Lego sets: Many Pieces: 15 years worth Favourite theme: Castle Best construct: Tie fighter that I built just last year Comments: This is the first time I've seen this group. It was great to find so many people who share a love for lego. I still take time to check out the latest sets at the local toy store.
From: lou@tfnet.ils.unc.edu (Lou Sortman) Date: 16 Jan 1995 16:10:45 GMT Name: Lou Sortman Age: 27 M.S.: single Kids: 0 Employment: UNIX system administrator / net.guru Number of Sets in Collection: 10-20 Number of Pieces: thousands; never counted Oldest Set: Expert Builder auto chasis frmo the late '70s Favorite Theme: Technic Favorite Set: Air Tech Claw Rig Been collecting since: ~1977 - hiatus - resumed ~1990 Whoever dies with the most LEGO wins.
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