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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 15, 2011, 11:47:22 PM »

The XL is from Warren, PA.
:-)

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 15, 2011, 08:48:45 AM »

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I noticed you have $70 for shipping. To my knowledge the parts you are shipping don't weigh more than 10lbs. The entire chassis perhaps would cost around $60-70 to ship since that weighs arouns 50lbs.
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I see your point, I was thinking about how heavy the other one was, and you are right, most of the weight of the other one is in the chassis, so I have lowered the shipping to $25

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 14, 2011, 10:25:48 PM »

Iceliaco, it's alright if you cannot get the graphics off! All emulating is for me is a pure hobby and nothing more. I actually want to apologize if I sounded a little greedy, but it's unfortunate that I cannot claim this XL to be my own since my parents do not have the money. Good luck to whomever gets it!

Hey dont worry, I bet more and more of these will turn up as more cable companies go HD, so dont give up hope.
You never know..

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 14, 2011, 10:19:33 PM »

Well, after thinking about trying to make a project out of these, I have decided to let them go. I have already made a deal with one of the members here for the XL in the rackmount case, and will be shipping that out tomorrow, but I have decided to put the other one on Ebay, so if anyone wants to get it, here is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/WeatherChannel-Weatherstar-XL-Receiver-SGI-O2-/330577276966?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf7f0f026#ht_1973wt_1108

I should mention that this one stopped working on me today, it was working right along with the other one, but now it is throwing an error message, so be aware of that if you bid. (the other one still works fine BTW)

Zach, thanks for the interest in the graphics, but I can't really get them off, and hopefully the other forum member (you know who you are) that is getting the working XL can help you out with them.
You guys have been a help figuring out what to do with these, and I wish you all the best!
:-)

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 10, 2011, 11:56:54 AM »

When it boots up, on the saga output, I can see that it is trying to FTP out and I assume get data... I wonder if I could get inside and change the FTP IP t o one on. Y own server, that way I could feed it anything I want.

Easier to find out the IP it wants, then build a dummy network to your server with that IP.

I see what you mean, so if I could figure out the formatting, I could set it up to scroll news and weather data from XML feeds. That could be a lot of fun.,

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 10, 2011, 11:00:37 AM »

Well, if I can get the graphics off, I will just give them to whoever wants 'em, but I meant the machines, I might want to keep one of them to play with, but what should I do with the other one?
They both work, but one isn't inside a cabinet.

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 10, 2011, 09:20:39 AM »

When it boots up, on the saga output, I can see that it is trying to FTP out and I assume get data... I wonder if I could get inside and change the FTP IP t o one on. Y own server, that way I could feed it anything I want.
I could even make it public, and then stream the output, so anyone could send data to it.
Maybe make it an online weather station with a bunch of random people feeding data to it?
Or maybe turn it into some kind of a message system and again stream the output.
That should be reasonably easy I would think..

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 10, 2011, 12:47:16 AM »

I checked out the emulation, and that's pretty cool you can do that. Is it for displaying your own weather station info? I mean is that why people make the emulations?

So what should I do with them? Play around, or just dump 'em on eBay?
What do you think?

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 09, 2011, 10:32:43 PM »

How would I get them off? Looks like unix or Linux to me, but I don't have anything with SCSI anymore....

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 09, 2011, 10:26:51 PM »

Well I hooked it up to a tv, on video and after it boots I get these



http://www.flickr.com/photos/straypoetry/5817105000#

http://www.flickr.com/photos/straypoetry/5816537685#

And then I hooked the svga port up to a monitor and got this:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/straypoetry/5816537793/#in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/straypoetry/5817105556/#in/photostream

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General Discussion / Re: Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 09, 2011, 09:49:12 PM »

Well I am a little hesitant to say where, because I don't want to get anyone onto trouble. How do I know what version of graphics it has?

Here is a picture of them on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straypoetry/5817025804/#

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General Discussion / Old Weatherstar XL

« on: June 09, 2011, 09:31:51 PM »

I have a Weatherstar XL, that was recently taken out of my local head-end, I know a guy that works there, and I saved it from the dumpster.
It has also another computer unit that goes inside the big rack mount box, so its actually two of them.
I have been thinking of trying to hook it up and see what it will do, and clues on how to do that?

Also, what would I do with something like this?
Could I put another kind of 'auto render program' on it or something?
Is it worth anything?