local demolition of SAGE building

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> At 02:15 PM 7/19/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >    Here are some shots of the SAGE blockhouse at Stewart, as of 2001:
> >
> >http://radomes.org/museum/recent/StewartAFBNY.html
> >
>
> I'm following the links from radomes.org and reading with interest about SAGE.
> At mitre.org it says:
>
> -When complete, the AN/FSQ-7 weighed 250 tons, and required a 3,000kW
> -power supply and over 49,000 vacuum tubes. When SAGE became fully
> -operational, it relied on 24 AN/FSQ-7s; they remained in service
> -until the Air Force ended the SAGE program in 1983.
>
> Is this TRUE? Did they actually use  vacuum tube computers up untill 1983?

Yes.

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