Thirty years tracking faint whispers from space

"Yet the bank of computers that would look at home in black-and-white episodes of Doctor Who cannot be junked. Housed at the Tidbinbilla space tracking station, outside Canberra, the 1970s hardware is now our world's only means of chatting with two robot pioneers exploring the solar system's outer limits."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/thirty-years-tracking-faint-whispers-from-space/2007/08/31/1188067368154.html