According to the above, the software was written in FORTRAN.
There’s probably at least one warehouse somewhere full of green bar sprocketed teletype / dot matrix paper with the source code on it, if not also magnetic tapes. And that assumes they haven’t archived it in other places and formats in the last ~50 years.
70kB though. That’s a huge amount of memory for 1977. Low-end personal computers were still selling with less than that 10 years later.
That said, the article doesn’t distinguish ROM and RAM, so I wonder how much of that is ROM. ROM is and was far cheaper.
Also, that 70 might be a rounding up of 65536 bytes, which is 64k, so you might be spot on with your guess there.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-computers-command-data-attitude-control/
According to the above, the software was written in FORTRAN.
There’s probably at least one warehouse somewhere full of green bar sprocketed teletype / dot matrix paper with the source code on it, if not also magnetic tapes. And that assumes they haven’t archived it in other places and formats in the last ~50 years.
70kB though. That’s a huge amount of memory for 1977. Low-end personal computers were still selling with less than that 10 years later.
That said, the article doesn’t distinguish ROM and RAM, so I wonder how much of that is ROM. ROM is and was far cheaper.
Also, that 70 might be a rounding up of 65536 bytes, which is 64k, so you might be spot on with your guess there.
Ive never heard of ROM, what is it?
Read only memory