Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Re:Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape rec... by varjag on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:33PM (#47565255)

Any development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed.

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Re:Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape rec... by reaperducer on Sunday March 29, 2026 @02:42PM (#47565892)

Any development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed

We put a man on the moon mostly with pencils and slide rules.

Today we have massive data centers full of "AI" supercomputers, and we get… TikTok?

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Re:Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape rec... by qingcharles on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:21PM (#47569706)

Surprising fact I just noticed about the next Moon landing attempt -- it'll take up to 22 launches to get everything into space needed for the attempt.

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Re:Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape rec... by TeMPOraL on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:55AM (#47571627)

That's good, actually. We need to develop the capability to stage/assemble in-orbit, as this would relax a lot of hard constraints on size and complexity of the missions.

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