Cold War Computing - The SAGE System

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L '(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) SAGE system was developed and built in 1950 to defend against the threat of a Soviet bomber attack on the continental United States. The system has been strongly influenced by the drawing of the MIT Whirlwind II computer (which was never completed). IBM designed and built the computer AN/FSQ-7, in the heart of the program SAGE, with companies like Western Electric (which has produced in your defense), the MITRE Corporation and System Development Corporation werealso the main contractors for the project. There have been more than twenty SAGE installations in North America unites hundreds of radar stations, Air Force fighter wing, and missile defense sites in the first large computer network communication. SAGE The network has been decentralized and there would be a group to continue to work, even if other sites were deactivated. Moved to the Soviet threat long-range bombers to attack the nuclear missiles in 1960, the SAGE system was lessof strategic importance. However, parts of the system continues to operate in early 1980. This film explains the threats to national security in 1950 and '60 that SAGE was built to defend itself, and shows the computer network according to SAGE, and SAGE would simulates how to respond to attack the United States.

Keywords: Computer, History, Museum, IBM, Cold, War, Nuclear, Soviet, Air, Force, MIT, Lincoln, Labs, Western, Electric, Bomb, Defense, Propoganda, Film

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