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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 | After WWII they started to build a BOMARC missile base | ||
and a building to house a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment SAGE computer] | and a building to house a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment SAGE computer] | ||
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includes articles and maps | includes articles and maps | ||
Learning about Camp Adair lead me to wondering about the SAGE computers. | |||
== Other SAGE blockhouses == | |||
# SAGE DC-21, Luke AFB, Phoenix Arizona: https://www.smecc.org/sage-__phoenix_air_defense_sector_&_4629_support_squadron.htm | |||
== SAGE computer == | == SAGE computer == | ||
IBM | 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 | June 10, 1959 Newspaper article Eugene Register Guard | ||
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19590610&id=ofxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7uIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2744,1757915 | 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 | |||
Latest revision as of 23:50, 21 January 2022
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
- 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
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
Bomarc
Project notes
I have a folder in Documents/Projects/Nike_and_SAGE/
I downloaded a bunch of KML files and merged them together
