23 Aug
2007
23 Aug
'07
6:21 p.m.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Ensor wrote:
Funnily enough....I've just been eating my way
through the entire series of
"The Time Tunnel".
This discussion got me wondering whether any of the "computers" in the
background were real machines, or are they all props (as I've always
assumed)?
Oh they were real, all right. The "computers" in the Time Tunnel were
sections of the maintenance consoles and radar inputs panels from the
AN/FSQ-7 (SAGE) computer from the late 1950s. See my web page for more
than you ever wanted to know about SAGE on screen:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Q7/
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/