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Re: What does it take to brick an RCX (no pun intended)?

Are we talking the yellow bricky ones? If so, the following applies...

I think there are 3 at my house, all of which survived 4 years of FLL, and 2 years of sitting. All of them have freaked out at one point or another, but a simple firmware redownload stopped any funkiness which may have occurred.

I have had them lose the firmware though and not be able to redownload it, but we weren't using robolab or the default firmware (which I assume you're using).

Also, MSSM Summer Camps (same deal, just much much farther north), has a set of 6ish which have been used every summer for the past several years, all of which have survived.
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