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The story of fixing #Voyager is absolutely amazing: youtube.com/watch?v=YcUycQoz0z

This team diagnosed and fixed a bug in an ancient system dead in the water, billions of miles away, without complete documentation (and what they did have had typos!), without reference hardware, without the software, without any software tooling, without access to the people who wrote the original system, and where a single mistake could brick the thing forever

Un-freaking-believable

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Yes, the two Voyager spacecraft each carry an 8-track reel-to-reel digital tape recorder (DTR) for storing data collected by the Plasma Wave System (PWS).

Capacity: ~67 Mbytes
Tape width: 1/2 inch
Tape length: 328 m

The DTR on Voyager 2 is no longer used because a PWS part failed in 2007.

And after 47 years in space, the DTR and many other instruments on Voyager are still ticking!

DTR info: hackaday.com/2018/11/29/inters
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Trying to watch #StarTrek #Voyager and while it's still one of my personal fav treks, I 100% get people who can't get into it. The start is very rough and it very much calls for a "skip list".

The Doctor is top tier and Tuvok and Janeway are favorites. Shame about Kes and Neelix. I guess you can start with the episodes with Seven of Nine if you really want, gets a lot of the bleh outta the way.

I kinda appreciate Kim a lot more. He's a failure but v relatable