Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Network Temperature Protocol Message-ID: <7688@gollum.twg.com> Date: 1 Aug 90 01:34:36 GMT References: <9007261314.AA24893@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Jul26.144406.19495@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 25 In article <1990Jul26.144406.19495@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kline@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline) writes: >craig@NNSC.NSF.NET writes: >>I've had this fantasy for about two years now that I'd someday convince >>someone to take this sort of weather info (or perhaps satellite weather data >>which some sites make available) >The code was homegrown here in the cornfields. The weather data comes >from Alden Electronics, a reseller of government weather data. It all >comes out in the WMO format, with which I struggle every day. There's a fairly inexpensive box available for Amiga which encodes and decodes the transmission formats used to send pictures from satellites, and used by the wire services on shortwave-TELEX. One of these hooked to an Amiga sitting on ether (ether has been available for years, along with TCP/IP & NFS) could grab current weather maps from satellite and make them available over NFS. Then when Craig gets one of his fantasies again his software can just get the picture from wherever it was stashed by the Amiga. No need to buy the data from Alden either.. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!