30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
8:54 a.m.
On Oct 30, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Additionally a QSL Card from Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt to hang in the Ham Shack would be
nice.
Jerry
wb9mri
On Oct 30, 2015, at 5:29 AM, Liam Proven
<lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
?Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages
To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know
FORTRAN and assembly languages.
?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-e…
Neat. I would think that a large fraction of the membership of this list is qualified
for that job. Assembly language programming, on a machine with such large memory as 64k?
Sure. Fortran? Algol? Even those who don't know can likely learn it easily.
The key requirement is the mindset needed to work on old computers, with (by today's
standards) slow execution and small memory. That's something most of us have, either
from actually doing it, or from being interested in it.
paul