Talk:AN/FSQ-32

message: The SAGE system, from what I recall, was removed in the early 1980s to be replaced by the AN/FYQ-93 Joint Surveillance System (which I worked on at the Northwest Air Defense Sector, currently called the Western Air Defense Sector).  The removal of the statement would leave a hole I'm unsure of how to fill, however. Murasaki66 (talk) 22:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching this. You are correct. Please check what I've written for accuracy according to your recollection. I was on the USAF Q-32 team at SDC from early 60s to 69. The Q-32 was intended to replace the Q-7 in SAGE, but I don't recall why they changed that direction. Thanks. Afaprof01 (talk) 00:51, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds right, though my own experience is simply from talking to other techs who worked on the SAGE before it was replaced.  My only experience is with the Q-93, other than seeing a few pictures and bits of the old SAGE equipment sitting on some older technicians' desks. Murasaki66 (talk) 03:24, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I joined SDC in 1969.  The prototype Q-7 was still in operation at SDC then, though I was told that it took 1/3 of the power of the City of Santa Monica to run it and that Edison had to be told in advance when it was turned on or off.  I remember walking **through** it--carefully guided--once when it was running.  Some years later--can't say exactly when--I saw stacks of vacuum-tube-based parts just sitting on our parking lot as scrap.  It is my understanding that only one Q-32 was built.  As it was said to be a transistorized Q-7, its design would have been obsolete when it arrived at SDC.LM6407 (talk) 09:20, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  SAGE "abolished" in the 1960s statement is incorrect 

message: I used this system at SDC in 1968, and I want to add that time sharing was by means of at least 30 ASR-33 teletypes scattered around the building and probably in remote locations. The primary programming language was TINT (Teletype INTerpreter), a BASIC-like interpreted language. It also had a small number of vector graphics displays with lightpens, and someone had written a tic tac toe game for them. I know all this to be factual but have not met the Wikipedia level of verification.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betamarx (talk • contribs) 00:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timesharing used ASR-33s 

message: * Wohlman, John. "Computer-Generated Map Data: An Aid to Command and Control." Air University Review. http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1968/jan-feb/wohlman.html. Accessed: 6/20/2006.
Above talks about the displays used in SACCS but does not seem to mention this computer? So I am moving it here until we can link it to the topic. W Nowicki (talk) 22:07, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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