Answers.Body: <p>No you can't. But <a href="http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=%20IR%20Transmitter%20Tower" rel="nofollow">IR towers are pretty cheap</a>, especially the older serial ones (you have to add an USB to serial converter to use the latter version on modern computers)</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm getting a rcx 1.0 or 1.5 and it's not coming with the tower. Can I still program it, using some sort of cable?</p>
  
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Title: Can the rcx work without the infrared tower
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ThreadText: # Can the rcx work without the infrared tower
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-09)
  
  I'm getting a rcx 1.0 or 1.5 and it's not coming with the tower. Can I still program it, using some sort of cable?
  
  **Tags:** mindstorms, rcx
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-07-14. Score: 2
  
  No you can't. But [IR towers are pretty cheap](http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=%20IR%20Transmitter%20Tower), especially the older serial ones (you have to add an USB to serial converter to use the latter version on modern computers)
  
  
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