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A faint memory of my XL?
« on: January 03, 2009, 02:29:46 PM »
I seem to remember Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson was on my Latest Observations list. What's even funkier is that I seem to remember it as part of my XL. This Latest Obs list had Tucson, Flagstaff, Luke AFB, and a few others as I remember it - a lot more regional than what I get now, a list of Valley suburbs. My memory seems to show it in a light yellow text...like XLv2.
I also seem to had really liked an LF song from September of one year...I should go back through the playlists of 01-03.

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2009, 03:19:37 PM »
Ok.
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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2009, 04:06:48 AM »
Im a little confused why you posted this :blink:

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2009, 10:56:09 AM »
I think its a side effect of too much exposure to TWCC.  :bleh: :rofl:

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2009, 12:13:08 PM »
I think its a side effect of too much exposure to TWCC.  :bleh: :rofl:
That happened to me as well. :rofl2: When I saw videos of the Weather Star XL versions 1 & 2, I had faint memories of the graphics from those versions.
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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2009, 05:11:14 PM »
I think its a side effect of too much exposure to TWCC.  :bleh: :rofl:
That happened to me as well. :rofl2: When I saw videos of the Weather Star XL versions 1 & 2, I had faint memories of the graphics from those versions.

You clearly misunderstood.  ;)

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2009, 05:35:45 PM »
Both the XLv1 and XLv2.

I also encountered an XL(v1?) in Chicago, with Meigs Field as the observation site. The Latest Obs had lots of "Arpt." sites and I thought it stood for "Apartment". Whoops!

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2009, 06:45:37 PM »
Both the XLv1 and XLv2.

I also encountered an XL(v1?) in Chicago, with Meigs Field as the observation site. The Latest Obs had lots of "Arpt." sites and I thought it stood for "Apartment". Whoops!

Lol, apartment!  :lol: It does look like that though.

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2009, 06:48:00 PM »
I've seen STARs that actually use "Apt." as an abbreviation for airport. Makes it seem like there's a Philadelphia International Apartment nearby. :P

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2009, 06:55:39 PM »
When my STAR's used Martin Airport for the CC's they'd use the Arpt. abbreviation (as you've noticed if you've ever seen my emulations).

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2009, 07:08:28 AM »
Both the XLv1 and XLv2.

I also encountered an XL(v1?) in Chicago, with Meigs Field as the observation site. The Latest Obs had lots of "Arpt." sites and I thought it stood for "Apartment". Whoops!
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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2009, 08:52:00 AM »
Re Gil: I knew that. I believe the ob site was O'Hare or Midway by the time Meigs Field was closed.

The Meigs Field "scrap memory" is from about 2000-01, possibly 2002.

Re Gary: Oh yeah, that's a common abbreviation, like Fly Cloud Arpt (which should be Flying Cloud Airport, not just Fly Cloud Airport). Some parts of TWC used APRT (early 90s), AP (GRTR CINCINNATI AP) - likely the byproduct of a name limitation on the 4000.

One of my other odd memories: I'd remember the tagging products with a name and address and wonder "Why don't other networks do that"? It might have been in the XL days because the typeface was very narrow and not like the Interstate weight they use now. Yamaha had a tagging product out at that time.

Later, I'd learn more about exactly why, of course.

Then there's how the weather icons looked. The thunderstorm icon I called "the baker's cloud" for whatever reason, the Daypart/Extended Forecasts would look as if the cloud was bouncing between Partly Cloudy and Mostly Sunny, and I vividly remember the tone of Vocal Local. Then again, I do remember parts of the text forecast narration, so some of this might be from my early IS.
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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2009, 11:15:38 AM »
I don't think it was necessarily due to a size limitation die to the hardware. Rather, I think it was due to needing to keep the name within the CC or Local Obs page, and typing the whole thing out would make it far too long to fit.

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Re: A faint memory of my XL?
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2009, 03:05:01 AM »
I don't think it was necessarily due to a size limitation die to the hardware. Rather, I think it was due to needing to keep the name within the CC or Local Obs page, and typing the whole thing out would make it far too long to fit.

At least they aren't using "Aerodrome".