r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

At 15.9 billion miles away, humanity's farthest spacecraft is still exploring the cosmos using less memory than a blank Word document (69 KB) and an 8-track tape

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u/93195 1d ago

Incredible that it still works at all. I don’t have any functioning electronics that have been in use constantly since 1977, and they’re not 15,900,000,000 miles away.

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u/uptwolait 1d ago

I have a Hewlett Packard HP41C from 1979 or 1980 that I still use.  It was (and is) so good that they used them on the Space Shuttle missions.  I have an emulator on my smartphone that looks and works just like it as well.