Rod Coleman's personal history of founding, building & running SAGE

[Mike Loewen]

    I also had the opportunity to visit the UGC, but after operations had moved 
aboveground. The followup to SAGE, the AN/FYQ93 (ROCC, SOCC, JSS) equipment
was still in place, but powered down. This was in 2007. I had previously 
worked on both SAGE and the ROCC at McChord AFB as a computer maintenance 
tech.

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:

> North Bay is not on the DEW line the DEW line is above the arctic circle and 
> while North Bay may seem like the far north to some it is a long way below 
> the arctic circle is actually at about the level of the Pine Tree Line.  CFB 
> North Bay was the SAGE site for the 22nd NORAD region.  The SAGE site was 600 
> ft under ground in a cavern carved out of solid rock.  I had the good fortune 
> of going on a tour of the underground while the AN/FSQ-7 computers where 
> still operating.
>
> Paul.
>
> On 2021-01-02 10:08 p.m., Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
>>  For one exciting moment there I thought that you were talking about the
>>  Semi-Automatic Ground Environment - which a friend of mine was a tech on
>>  in North Bay, ON, part of the DEW line!
>>
>>  I was getting ready to up stakes and hop off to Philadelphia!
>>
>>  cheers,
>>
>>  Nigel
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
>>  Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
>>  Skype:  TILBURY2591 nw.johnson at ieee.org
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  On 2021-01-02 8:44 p.m., Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
>>>  On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 7:11 PM Liam Proven via cctalk
>>>  <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>  This may be old news -- it was new to me, though.
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>  https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer
>>>>
>>>>  I'm not really familiar with SAGE machines. They were not as
>>>>  well-known in the UK, I think, being upmarket from the Apple ][ and
>>>>  IBM PC, both of which were eye-wateringly expensive by UK standards of
>>>>  the time.
>>>>
>>>>  Also, they were terminal-based things and even back then I was
>>>>  interested in boxes with graphics. :-)
>>>>
>>>  There is a SAGE II at Kennett Classic.  When I give tours I like to
>>>  compare
>>>  and contrast the SAGE with the IBM PC, Motorola 68000 vs Intel 8086.
>>>
>>>  If anyone is in the Philadelphia area stop by and we can fire them up.
>>>  Pascal.
>>>
>>>  Bill
>>> 
>
>

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