A rare archival video tour of JPL Building 230 from the 1980s showcases the computers that powered the Voyager space program. A NASA employee recorded the facility before it was replaced, capturing early Univac and IBM machines, punch card writers, Univac debug panels, massive tape drives, and improvised hardware hacks. These machines, primitive by modern standards, were responsible for guiding the first man-made objects to leave the heliosphere back in 1977.

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