They fixed Voyager 1. I can't even fix stuff that I can touch.
@Dane @elbutterfield Can you imagine trying to hire programmers for this project? Must be proficient in a forgotten assembly language. Code was written before you were born. Mustbe proficient at desk-checking code - IDE and debugger experience not considered useful.
@elbutterfield @Dane I think the definitive answer was that the onboard systems are written in assembler. I had an 8K PDP-8E in the early 70s. There was a Fortran IV compiler for it, but all my Fortran programs had to be heavily overlaid, with overlays coming from DECtapes. On a subsequent Nova, I was able to code a discrete hadamard transform in 16 machine instructions, leveraging auto-increment/decrement locations and other tricks. Assembler was my forte for years.
@peterquirk @Dane @elbutterfield they don't need to hire, they have vats with clones of the original programmers. The grey aliens gave us that technology.
It may sound crazy but it's more plausible than any other scenario.