[GreenKeys] TTYs in use at SAGE

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat May 30 16:30:53 EDT 2015


On Sat, 30 May 2015, Rodger Casey wrote:

> I don't know what those upper 'displays' might be.  This was early in 
> the 1950s!

Hmmm...  A ploy to spook the Russkies, perhaps?  It's beyond the realms of 
possibility that they would've seen that issue of the mag.

> I have attached what purports to be a picture of some fielded SAGE 
> hardware.  I suspect that the fuzzy photo may have shown a conceptual 
> facsimile for a future display system, perhaps with a 'vaporware' upper 
> display or a static map.

Yeah, the boxes are the same, but those screens?

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