6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
1:01 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2012 Jun 5, at 8:21 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
According to Radomes:
http://www.radomes.org/museum/sagedocs.html
...the first SAGE site to be decommissioned was Beale AFB in August of
1963. The equipment from Beale was a likely candidate to end up at either
Fox or Vectrex.
Decommissioning dates:
Beale AFB, CA 08/01/63
Minot AFB, ND 08/15/63
Larson AFB, WA 09/01/63
Grand Forks AFB, ND 12/01/63
K.I.Sawyer AFB, MI 12/15/63
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
Panels from the SAGE computer were used as props in that movie:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/scifi/Analyst/
(.. yes, I did recognise them)
What I always wondered about those SAGE consoles used in the movies is how
the props people wrested them out of the Air Force so early. SAGE had barely
become fully functional when they got them (from your pages Fox obtained them
in 1966; from the MITRE site SAGE was fully functional in 1964). Sure, some
of the production was some years older, but not very.