Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

[Bill Freeman]

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> > It is a La Crosse WS-3610.
> 
>   Looks like it's OEM'ed by these people:
> 
> http://www.heavyweather.info/new_english_us/3610set.html
> 
>   The software spec sheet claims it only works with Win 98 or later,
> and needs 128 MB RAM.  If that's true, and that software is the same
> software you have (and not some new generation), chances are it's not
> going to run on Win 3.x or that 486 at all.

All true.  But I think some of those requirements are for the GUI and
publish to the world stuff, and I'm hoping that there's a smaller daemon
process that collects the data into a file (that the GUI looks at), all
on the theory that it is an outgrowth of an earlier DOS product.

In any case, I'm confident that, once I reverse engineer the protocol,
I'll be dumping WFW for a small Linux and custom daemon, with WiFi (or
maybe ethernet) connectivity to the house network.  Weather data is,
after all, just numbers.

Or I'll come up with another use for this laptop.  Like my old DOS based
uses a PC for a display, using a serial port, oscilloscope.