Talk: SAGE

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Actually, SAGE was a centralized, automated air defense system developed by the U.S. in the 1950s to counter a perceived (but largely imaginary) Soviet strategic bombing threat. The BOMARC antiaircraft missile was only one of the weapons systems included in the SAGE system.

By the time it was fully operational the Soviet bomber threat had been replaced by the Soviet missile threat, for which SAGE was entirely inadequate. Nevertheless, SAGE was tremendously important; it had an immense influence on the development of interactive computing, computer networking, and computer hardware and software.

IBM's role in SAGE was the design and manufacture of the AN/FSQ-7 computer, a vacuum tube computer with ferrite core memory based on the Whirlwind. This experience was an important factor leading to IBM's domination of the computer industry.

USENIX: SAGE: System Administrator's Guild

Do we need a disambiguation page to refer to the USENIX special technical group SAGE? (As a computer nerd this was my first associate with the link I saw RecentChanges).

collecting aircraft?

SAGE, the Semi Automated Ground Environment, was an automated control system for collecting, tracking and intercepting enemy bomber aircraft Is this the official description? If not, it should be rewritten- surely the USAF aren't collecting bomber aircraft - they're much too large to keep on a closet shelf. -FZ 13:17, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)