[rescue] WeatherStar 4000 Weather Channel Computer

Carl R. Friend crfriend at rcn.com
Sat Sep 29 09:13:00 CDT 2018


On 09/29/2018 09:33 AM, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
> I was at university surplus yesterday.  and I nabbed this neat piece of gear.
> 
> The Weatherstar 4000
> Would have went in a cable headend.
> 68010 based.   Seems like all the graphics are in rom.

    Nice find.  The graphics being in ROM clearly explains the
admonition of "This unit is for this headend only".  Do you get
any video output from the thing that'd indicate where it was in
service?

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