SAGE: Difference between revisions

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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.

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"

includes articles and maps

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

IBM AN/FSQ-7

June 10, 1959 Newspaper article Eugene Register Guard

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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 ==
 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]
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 includes articles and maps
+Learning about Camp Adair lead me to wondering about the SAGE computers.
 == SAGE computer ==
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 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19590610&id=ofxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7uIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2744,1757915
-=== The blockhouse ===
+=== The blockhouse that housed the computer ===
 http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/focus/article_566b4731-6403-5f94-8f07-b0a55dec56ef.html