OT - Voyager 2 is Still Alive

I'm glad they got in touch with it again- I heard about the 2 degree mis-command
I think it's got the equivalent of a Commodore 64 on board?
 
xr650rRider said:
Windows sure gets a bad rap in certain circles but we ran control system software for years on Windows NT based servers.
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You must not have done the upgrades either.

Ok, I apologize to any Windows users who have been perfectly happy over all the years and all the versions of code. I admire you. Really. I wish you a long and virus free life.
 
Winegrower said:
You must not have done the upgrades either.

Ok, I apologize to any Windows users who have been perfectly happy over all the years and all the versions of code. I admire you. Really. I wish you a long and virus free life.
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Been auto updating since 1995, even had an update server. Stay off the porn sites and the virus's associated with them.
 
cross thread said:
Remember that old Star Trek movie where Voyager landed on some alien planet ? And when it landed the Vo got dirt on it , and the aliens thought it was a god named yeager .
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IIRC it was vger or something similar. Supposedly part of the nameplate had been obscured so the aliens who "restored" the probe mis-named it.

Funny. I recently watched that old movie on Comet.
 
Windows has been used to operate submersibles.



Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded.
 
I know of a press big enough to stamp out most of a car body with one stroke. 3 stories below ground, 3 stories above ground. 1500 gallon hydraulic reservoir. Runs on Dos 1.
 
I've read about some of these deep space vehicles running off X86 Intel processors, even when they were obsoleted in the public domain decades earlier. Reason being, NASA has a very deep understanding of these processors, and trusts them.
 
xr650rRider said:
Most of Windows problems are Windows users. Windows sure gets a bad rap in certain circles but we ran control system software for years on Windows NT based servers. Most of the problems with Windows crashing is badly written software and poor hardware.
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Surely you’re joking.
 
I know it is fun to joke about Windows and DOS on early spacecraft but the reality is these were custom built computers. Probably more like a process controller than what we think of as a Computer. I think I read that they wrote the program(s) in Fortran and then compiled it to run on the controller/computer (3 sets of two). Resources would be way to scarce to waste on a MS DOS layer. Every Bit counted.
 
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