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Re: Innovation First acquires Vex from Radio Shack

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Originally Posted by jeffmorris
I found out that the new Lego Mindstorms NXT set has only three output ports and four input ports. The Vex Micro Controller has 8 output ports and 12 input ports.
Kind of off topic but I believe you are right. The old RCX had 3 inputs, 3 outputs but you could hook some combinations of sensors together to utilize the same input. This is definitely an area of strength for Vex.

On the programming side, though, I really like the power of event driven programming and multiple threads that Robolab (or nqc) and the LEGO RCX supports.
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