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A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« on: April 02, 2011, 07:39:47 PM »
I ran across this video today of the 4000 having several hiccups...
It kept relooping for at least almost 7 minutes in the video.
There's a catchy production music playing for about 2 1/2 minutes at the beginning, it also reloops the first time the 4000 reloops in the video.
At 1:08 mins in, the 4000 is terribly degraded.
The Travel Cities Forecast comes up frozen after the almanac and then starts moving from the forecast for Dallas onward.
Trammell Starks kicks in at around 3:08 mins in and plays for the rest of the video.
The Extended Travel Forecast pops up randomly twice briefly.

This video is from the evening of December 2, 1996

Local Forecast Major Malfunction - December 2nd 1996


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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2011, 07:52:15 PM »
Wow, that has to be the earliest footage Ive seen of TS01 from CD 1   :blink:
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2011, 01:13:44 PM »
Thanks for posting that, hadn't seen it til now.
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2011, 06:22:30 PM »
Wonder if they ever repaired that particular unit?
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2011, 09:58:19 PM »
Wow, that has to be the earliest footage Ive seen of TS01 from CD 1   :blink:
Really? Then you'll be amazed when I post footage of TS from Jan 1st. :D

FYI - The first song is not production music. It's "Good Morning" by Craig Peyton.
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2011, 10:52:58 PM »
Wow, that has to be the earliest footage Ive seen of TS01 from CD 1   :blink:
Really? Then you'll be amazed when I post footage of TS from Jan 1st. :D

FYI - The first song is not production music. It's "Good Morning" by Craig Peyton.

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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2011, 01:47:56 AM »
I ran across this video today of the 4000 having several hiccups...
It kept relooping for at least almost 7 minutes in the video.
There's a catchy production music playing for about 2 1/2 minutes at the beginning, it also reloops the first time the 4000 reloops in the video.
At 1:08 mins in, the 4000 is terribly degraded.
The Travel Cities Forecast comes up frozen after the almanac and then starts moving from the forecast for Dallas onward.
Trammell Starks kicks in at around 3:08 mins in and plays for the rest of the video.
The Extended Travel Forecast pops up randomly twice briefly.

This video is from the evening of December 2, 1996

Local Forecast Major Malfunction - December 2nd 1996

It's interesting to see the cities that report to it.  My regional forecast had Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and Evansville.  Oddly, Indianapolis was in the list of seven local cities (over two hours away).  The name was too long to fit in the regional forecast without it running off the page  :lol:.

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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2011, 04:49:51 PM »

At 1:08 mins in, the 4000 is terribly degraded.
The Travel Cities Forecast comes up frozen after the almanac and then starts moving from the forecast for Dallas onward.


The 4000 had all kinds of meltdowns & errors. The part when the text turns green with the rainbow-like background and the Travel Cities scroll that redraws I saw on my STAR in various ways as early as spring 1995.

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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2011, 04:43:55 PM »
I didn't have any of the green stuff or the rabbit in the moon, but I did have, in 1991, a problem with the light snow icon (the cloud and the small snowflake).  Something got messed up and only half of the black snowflake would show up.  It took forever for it to be fixed.

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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2011, 03:22:31 PM »
Interesting video. But why would the Extended Forecast come up "at random"? I though the 4000 always had pre-arranged flavor lineups.

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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2011, 04:40:59 PM »
Interesting video. But why would the Extended Forecast come up "at random"? I though the 4000 always had pre-arranged flavor lineups.
That Extended Forecast you're seeing is part of the national TWC feed. It's not generated by the 4000.
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2011, 12:16:37 PM »
Wow, that has to be the earliest footage Ive seen of TS01 from CD 1   :blink:
Really? Then you'll be amazed when I post footage of TS from Jan 1st. :D

FYI - The first song is not production music. It's "Good Morning" by Craig Peyton.

Thanks for the song info, it's a catchy song. :happy:

I just came across the video yesterday. This was a classic song, and it is catchy.  :yes: I had not heard this song in 15 years!  :hmm:
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2011, 12:20:46 PM »
Wow, that has to be the earliest footage Ive seen of TS01 from CD 1   :blink:

Really? Then you'll be amazed when I post footage of TS from Jan 1st. :D

FYI - The first song is not production music. It's "Good Morning" by Craig Peyton.


Thanks for the song info, it's a catchy song. :happy:



I just came across the video yesterday. This was a classic song, and it is catchy.  :yes: I had not heard this song in 15 years!  :hmm:


I found a link to that full length song you can listen to here at soundcloud a couple of months ago.

http://soundcloud.com/craig-peyton/good-morning


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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2012, 02:39:25 PM »
Wow.... When that thing messed up, it forevermore messed up...... 
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Re: A WeatherStar4000 Meltdown At It's Best
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2012, 01:22:09 AM »

I found a link to that full length song you can listen to here at soundcloud a couple of months ago.

http://soundcloud.com/craig-peyton/good-morning

I keep playing the first few measures  :rofl:.  I love that drum beat  B)