SAGE

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I'm working from time to time on mapping SAGE and NIKE bases.

I lived in Corvallis and saw the blockhouse at Camp Adair and started wondering what the heck that thing was.

Camp Adair, Oregon

Article from Corvallis Gazette Times on the current state of the blockhouse building.

http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/focus/article_566b4731-6403-5f94-8f07-b0a55dec56ef.html

After WWII they started to build a BOMARC missile base and a building to house a SAGE computer

Look here and then search for "adair"

http://www.radomes.org/museum/documents/

includes articles and maps

Learning about Camp Adair lead me to wondering about the SAGE computers.

Other SAGE blockhouses

  1. SAGE DC-21, Luke AFB, Phoenix Arizona: https://www.smecc.org/sage-__phoenix_air_defense_sector_&_4629_support_squadron.htm

SAGE computer

IBM AN/FSQ-7

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FSQ-7_Combat_Direction_Central

June 10, 1959 Newspaper article Eugene Register Guard

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19590610&id=ofxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7uIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2744,1757915

Manual: AN-FSQ-7 Central Computer System Theory of Operation http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/sage/22-00001_Central_Computer_System_Preliminary_Sep55.pdf

Nike

http://www.ed-thelen.org/

Bomarc

Project notes

I have a folder in Documents/Projects/Nike_and_SAGE/

I downloaded a bunch of KML files and merged them together