Astronomy / Space Know FORTRAN? NASA needs you!

[Heavensburn]

Attention old school Commanders:

Many you have talked of the great days of Elite '84. When 8 galaxies could be squished into kilobytes not gigabytes. Days of lore when your skills of FORTRAN and Assembly were cutting edge.*

Time to crack open the books and brush up! The last Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 engineer has announced his retirement and NASA needs you:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-engineer/

*Sorry, but they are looking for internal candidates first. Explains why we fly 200 year old ships in the 34th century. Legacy costs are just too great, so no more technology advancements.

 

[MottiKhan]

I noticed that they need assembly writers too. It's nice to code at the machine level. You could do some pretty cool stuff with not a lot of memory.

But that was 1982/83 for me. The last time I needed assembly was 1994. Don't know if my brain can time shift that far.

It's nice to see that they're still working on the VGERs though. Reuse, recycle and reduce as they say.

 

[Fost]

64K - Hmm... you know what would fit in there....