... Experts at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California decided to turn to four backup thrusters that were last used on November 8, 1980.
"The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and *examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language,* to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said Chris Jones, chief engineer at JPL. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_successfully_fires_Voyager_1_thrusters_after_37_years_999.html -- Regards, Mark T. Regan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
