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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: finger weather is discontinued
Message-ID: <18417@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 00:59:40 GMT
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In article <14784@helios.TAMU.EDU> kurt@photon.tamu.EDU (Kurt Freiberger) writes:
+Tsk, tsk, tsk.  Bill, I'm surprised at your naivete!!  They are charging you
+for the SERVICE of providing this valuable information!  After all, it
+probably takes the equivalent of a bank of Crays to process this so it can be
+sent to all the radio and TV stations so that they can come up with their
+authoritative weather predicions.  We mere mortals cannot be trusted with
+this raw information.  It might upset the balance of civilization as we
+know it!

There is a magazine titled, 'Weather', which has a number of gizmos
to pull down weather maps which are broadcast on some frequency or
another, I can't recall specifically. The results can be displayed
on the ubiquitus PC or the like.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu