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uhoh
uhoh
19:17
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact
Erin Anne
Erin Anne
wow. Remote retrocomputer support has to be the worst
geoffc
geoffc
19:40
@ErinAnne My dad uses a IBM XT all in one model, 20 Meg MFM hard drive, not even IDE... And he runs WP5.1 and Quicken 6. And I have to remote support him. It is not fun.
Voyager, on the other hand, has me beat hands down by orders of magnitude in distance and age.
Erin Anne
Erin Anne
19:56
wow I would've thought ancient WordPerfect and Quicken would be an absolute beast. just unstoppable
geoffc
geoffc
20:30
@ErinAnne They just keep running. Chugged through Y2K nary a peep. I have a full spare box, just not the MFM hard drive. Gonna try and buy one of those 8 bit IDE controllers, they sell as solder your own kits. Wanted to do it at VCF East this past weekend but could not make it. In case his drive ever dies.
8 Mhz 8086 and 640K of RAM... Keeps on trucking.

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