Once upon a time I thought the WeatherStar III was the bee's knees, and I was in total awe when I saw the 4000 for the first time. Actually, the day the cable company installed it, they were setting it up live on air, meaning the local forecast segments were totally worthless as far as weather information was concerned, but it was SO incredibly interesting to watch what they were doing with it, and, of course, my eyes were just absorbing everything that I was seeing for the first time - a graphical local forecast!! This was in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1991, only a year after the 4000 had been introduced, and just as it was coming out of its final test phases. For example, there were still fade animations between the blue text box screens and the maps, the local forecast screens had a vertical wipe between the three screens of text, and the regional maps used the current conditions/extended forecast icon set in miniature for a while.
Alas, this was while I was visiting my grandparents for the summer. The Boston area didn't get the 4000 for another two years, and, yes, I was quite disappointed when I realized that my cable company back home hadn't upgraded at the same time my grandparents' cable company did, despite Boston and Philadelphia both being large markets. Thank you, Continental Cablevision (later to eventually become Comcast)... Eric says sarcastically.
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