Neil, agreed. This was marketed exclusively at the education market. Also, it is possible to use a standard PC parallel port with a custom cable to interface with the box: http://www.lgauge.com/technic/LEGOInterfaceA/9750(1093).htm On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 09/13/2016 10:01 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
One of the things I noticed was how the early Lego revolution never spanned
across the home computer market. So many other computers would take advantage of this. It appears it was primarily focused on Apple alone at first. As usual they probably worked out some marketing deal to prevent that. The only other it seems was the IBM PC who was afforded this interface - mostly likely because that IBM was just as popular and it's name recognition.
My 2 cents ..
The Lego kit was probably expensive and focused on the education market where Apple was king.
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