[Milsurplus] SAGE- NORAD A/N FSQ-7 things! check this link out!

William Donzelli [email protected]
Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:03:22 -0500 (EST)


> As usual in our relentless pursuit of  knowledge and artifacts today's topic
> is the Military Computer the A/N FSQ-7 Norad SAGE system;
                               ^^^^^^^^^

(Hey, Robert just yelled at me, so I gotta yell at someone)

> Need any  good photos of SAGE, the associated radios used with it... (
> hardware or manuals)

There are a number of really good SAGE sights on the 'net. Check them 
out. 
 
Tech manuals? The AN/FSQ-7 and -8 manuals were probably Big Blue Binders 
(anyone that worked for IBM as a CE would know what I mean), and the 
whole set would have easily outweighed both of us combined.

The manuals are probably declassified now, but I think all SAGE stuff was
pretty tightly held (Confidential and higher), and probably did not
survive well. I have only one tiny subset of SAGE documentation - a
maintenance manual set for the AN/ARR-39 datalink receiver. Buckets of
tubes and boxes of relays, all from GE. One of the neater things about the
manual is that is outlines the protocol and formatting of ground-to-air
SAGE transmissions. 

William Donzelli
[email protected]