Post #2299459
2024-04-23 07:24 UTC
Someone did point out to me https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/data/733100114 , which says the JPL archive has 17 cubic feet of documents under the rubric "Voyager Computer Command Subsystem Document Collection, 1967-1977". Which is only one of the three computers, and probably contains a lot of chaff like invoices from the contractors and the like, and also there's some demoralizing words about review and clearance being required for "foreign release", which is me :(
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-04-23 07:28
But if one of the other collections has stuff on the FDS and AACS as well, and the clearance thing turns out to be mostly boilerplate (come on, they're computers from the early 70s when CMOS was a newfangled thing, there can't _possibly_ be security implications left at this point), I would absolutely fly out to Los Angeles and go find datasheets. I'll even bring my own paper for the photocopier, you can't say fairer than that! ... But I'd also take a pdf of the current docs... JPL? pls?