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SAGE (Semiautomatic Ground Environment System)
Description: Sage(Semiautomatic Ground Environment System). : 1957-1980? An Air Defense electronic air-surveillance and weapons control system. Data-processing center evaluated and developed information into an air situation and issued weapons guidance orders. Initially it provided guidance for manned interceptors, and was later modified to work with the BOMARC missle. The computer had 50 display consoles for a football field sized computer with 60,000 vacume tubes (now about 256k). The SAGE Direction Center building contained power generation and computing equipment, operational area (over 100 staff), office and maintenance facilities. There were about thirty centers throughout the US and each center was responsible for a sector. The Direction Center for the Boston Sector (Maine to NYC) was at Stewart AFB (BOMARC at Suffolk) and the ___ Sector (Maine to ?Chicago) was at Hancock Field AFB (BOMARC at Niagara Falls).
County: Orange County
City, State: Newburgh, New York