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Cold War Computing – The SAGE System

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The SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) System, was designed and built in the 1950s to defend against the threat of Soviet bombers attacking the continental United States. The system was much influenced by the design of MIT’s Whirlwind II computer system (which was never completed). IBM designed and built the AN/FSQ-7 computer, the heart of the SAGE program, with companies such as Western Electric (who produced In Your Defense), The Mitre Corporation and System Development Corporation were also major contractors on the project.

There were more than twenty SAGE installations located across North America linking hundreds of radar stations, Air Force fighter wings, and missle defense sites in the first large-scale computer communications network. The SAGE network was decentralized and would allow a unit to continue operation even if other sites were disabled. As the Soviet attack threat shifted from long-range bombers to nuclear missles in the 1960′s, the SAGE system became less strategic. However, parts of the system continued operation into the early 1980′s.

This film explains the national security threats of the 1950′s and 60′s that SAGE was built to defend against, shows the SAGE computer and network in operation and simulates how SAGE would react to an attack on the United States.

Duration : 0:23:20

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25 responses. Wanna say something?

MokomaSusi
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

“I”m sure who were …
“I”m sure who were pacifist and against the war from the very beginning”

Simply not true and i claim that you cant show any evidence for this.

“And all were civilian /not-military? targets. ”

Simply not true. There were plenty of soldiers and war industry in both cities.

“These were civilian cities, not battleships. ”

So there were no factories making war amterials in these cities? Not true.

MokomaSusi
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

“hilter had hitler …
“hilter had hitler youth training to fight ”to the bitter end” — they did not”

There is lot of evidence to say otherwise.

“no tmuch 15 year? old boys can do”

I guess you din”t know that even children were being trained to fight against americans? Read more books.

“i”m sure many civilians in those cities were opposed to the war”

Japan back then wasn”t some kinda hello kitty land.

Play less games and read more books.

MokomaSusi
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

“and drop nukes on …
“and drop nukes on them,even? women, children, the elderly”

And? Japanese did same things. Worse things actually.

“Oh, snap, wait, the US government did it first. 600,000 dead. ”

600.000? Where did you get that figure?

MokomaSusi
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

“been involved in …
“been involved in more wars than any other country ”

lol, all this coming from british guy.

shutup735
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

fuckin” windows …
fuckin” windows 51!

26highstreet
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

the biggest threat …
the biggest threat to america has always come from within.
They were paranoid to the extreme of russian a attack that never happened.
The usa has more serial killers and terrorists and has started or been involved in more wars than any other country

snedie69er
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

@onionofdeath

And …
@onionofdeath

And did it occur to you that the attack on pearl harbour was the outcome of a pre-emptive strike based on reliable evidence that the USA was increasing the strength of it”s military forces in preperation for an attack on a foreigh nation?

snedie69er
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

@onionofdeath

I …
@onionofdeath

I am sure they would feel the same way if the tables where turned. Watching as the skin is litterally evaporated from your mothers skin, her blood begins to boil instantly and her nervous system goes into shock resulting in the most horrific pain possible. At 4 seconds, she would likely be dead, along with the other 300,000 in her town.

Civians die at the hands of a few power hungry men and woman. If we had no governments that could control an army, we would have no major wars.

snedie69er
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

Sorry, I bow down …
Sorry, I bow down to you experties in killing civians with nuclear weapons.

MokomaSusi
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

#10

“military forces in …
“military forces in preperation for an attack on a foreigh nation? ”

I guess chinese and koreans were also planning to invade “Nippon” since japanese were killing people in those both countries too…

MokomaSusi
May 26, 2010 at 12:19:06

#11

“. At 4 seconds, …
“. At 4 seconds, she would likely be dead, along with the other 300,000 in her town.”

It takes less than a blink of an eye when you die from nuclear blast… if you are in gorund zero. You dont have time to see anything.

Did you learn that from “grave of fireflies”?

“300,000 in her town.”

300.000? Bombing in Nagasaki killed 80.000+ and in Hiroshima 100.000+

Of course big figures… but pale if compred to what japanese did in places like Nanking.