SAGE

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 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.

SAGE computer

IBM AN/FSQ-7

June 10, 1959 Newspaper article Eugene Register Guard

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

The blockhouse that housed the computer

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