X*Press X*Change reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dwerva · 2021-10-21 02:44 Anyone remember [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X*Press_X*Change)? My modem connected to our satellite's LNB and would download info packets at certain times of day. ​ https://preview.redd.it/uqkvuqcavpu71.png?width=720&format=png&auto=we bp&s=6b948ab26963d333e5c124d74c48e4d31bad4bea https://preview.redd.it/ogblwvcavpu71.png?width=720&format=png&auto=we bp&s=1802335e3ecf27456407029894ab16d28865e9b0 https://preview.redd.it/6hmlupcavpu71.png?width=720&format=png&auto=we bp&s=19730def825e71cb4b8990ca0db9fce30b8107e7 https://preview.redd.it/tdnupqn2q1v71.png?width=720&format=png&auto=we bp&s=e4a8117c993b1e92e25d2943c37b854e68517857 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2021-10-21 04:00 Whoever came up with the light grey on blue with bright yellow highlights really was a genius. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScootyPuff-Sr · 2021-10-21 04:18 No, but I did come in to the Canadian air traffic system in the final days of FWGS (FSS Weather Graphics System?), which was a similar concept for broadcasting files over satellite to receive-only terminals consisting of a dish and, if I remember right, a 386 PC running some flavor of Unix. The satellite signal broadcast text weather reports and forecasts, and graphics of weather conditions, and kept the last couple of hours worth of files available for retrieval so they could be displayed or printed for pilots doing flight planning. By the time I came along though (2007), that meant it was doubly obsolete: the data products were available more easily on a website, and flight planning had been consolidated from air traffic sites to call centers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SunosUnix · 2021-10-21 22:21 Kinda a thing still with othernet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dwerva · 2021-10-21 23:41 Using [Dishpointer](https://www.dishpointer.com/) for SUS-2, I might actually be able to get a signal. Thanks for this, I didn't even know it existed!