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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981 (www.livescience.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's probably not too far off. The ground station probably uses the same antenna, the computer running it is probably relatively new, but I'm sure there's some kind of emulation for the control software. Like a Fortran emulator, not like WINE or an old DOS VM.