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

Sun, 3 Feb 2002 09:17:57 -0700

William, Will have to try to find a set or part of a set... yea remember
those blue ce books! if you can scan a pic of the receiver that would be
great!
We have a sage logistics manual here it is small...... ed!
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Donzelli" <[email protected]>
To: "ed sharpe" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] SAGE- NORAD A/N FSQ-7 things! check this link out!


> > 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
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