neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall) (08/29/89)
In article <8908271818.AA08296@jade.berkeley.edu> D0MUND01@ULKYVX.BITNET writes: >I keep hearing of data being spooled to the tape recorder for later >transmission to earth. Surely they don't use a conventional mag. >tape drive. Wouldn't something solid state like a large array of >eeprom be more robust? Remember: the Voyagers were built with 1975 technology....our "bag of tricks" did not include anything like eeproms in 1975! The Voyager's recorder is an 8-track mag-tape drive...reel to reel! Neal