Geek Jokes Volume 0b10
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BrokenSkunk said:
In reality the typing pool is much more tetchy about being stereotyped?
Tell that to the Softies who have just coded round a hardware failure and have got Voyager 1 working again. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/voyager_1_r...
(Joking aside, that is absolutely awesome isn't it!)
Clockwork Cupcake said:
BrokenSkunk said:
In reality the typing pool is much more tetchy about being stereotyped?
Tell that to the Softies who have just coded round a hardware failure and have got Voyager 1 working again. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/voyager_1_r...
(Joking aside, that is absolutely awesome isn't it!)
20 TURN ON
30 PRINT WOOHOO
40 STOP
Clockwork Cupcake said:
BrokenSkunk said:
In reality the typing pool is much more tetchy about being stereotyped?
Tell that to the Softies who have just coded round a hardware failure and have got Voyager 1 working again. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/voyager_1_r...
(Joking aside, that is absolutely awesome isn't it!)
)? Not bad when a message takes 22 hours to get there and a response 22 hours to get back...tangerine_sedge said:
I read that earlier and it's amazing that something made/launched nearly 50 years ago is still functioning. I believe that they had to poke in a new instruction to break out of a an output loop of nonsense (turned out to be a full memory dump which was probably very handy )? Not bad when a message takes 22 hours to get there and a response 22 hours to get back...
Yes indeed. A truly amazing feat for sure. )? Not bad when a message takes 22 hours to get there and a response 22 hours to get back...The memory dump would have indeed been a big bonus, I would imagine.
And, since this is a joke thread and I don't want the inevitable complaints, I will add:
"In space, no-one can hear you poke"
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