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Weather forecasting apparatus

  • US 4,218,755 A
  • Filed: 06/19/1978
  • Issued: 08/19/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for producing weather forecast information in response to supplied information, said apparatus comprisinga housing dimensioned so that it can be held in the hand,keyboard means disposed in said housing and includinga first plurality of manually operable keys upon which current weather information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different types of weather,a second plurality of manually operable keys upon which current wind speed information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind speeds,a third plurality of manually operable keys upon which current wind direction information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind directions,a fourth plurality of manually operable keys upon which current season of the year information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing diffferent seasons of the year,first address means responsive to the operation of said first plurality of keys for producing a first partial address,second address means responsive to the operation of said second plurality of keys for producing a second partial address,third address means responsive to the operation of said third plurality of keys for producing a third partial address,fourth address means responsive to the operation of said fourth plurality of keys for producing a fourth partial address,display means carried by the housing for producing a visual display of weather forecast information in response to receipt of weather forecast data,read only memory means having a plurality of memory locations for storing weather forecast data and for supplying weather forecast data to said display means from memory locations each specified by an input address, andmeans for combining the partial addresses to produce an input address for application to said read only memory to identify a location in the memory from which weather forecast data is to be read.

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