Mainframe Computer Peripheral, Light Gun for the IBM SAGE (AN/FSQ-7)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This light-sensing pointing device, called a "light gun," was used with the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer, part of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system. At the time of its operational deployment in 1958, the AN/FSQ-7 was the first large-scale, real-time digital control computer supporting a major military mission. The AN/FSQ-7 design, including its architecture, components, and computer programs, drew on research and development programs throughout the United States, but mostly on work done at MIT's Project Whirlwind and at IBM. The first AN/FSQ-7 was installed in 1958, and a total of twenty-four FSQ-7 systems were in operation - some as late as 1983.
label: Description
content: This light gun is from the SAGE system that was once at Fort Lee Air Force Station in Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, Air Defense Tactical Air Command (through Lt. Col. Joseph H. Gerard)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0298.11
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0298.11
label: accession number
content: 1983.0298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Peripheral
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 4 cm x 16.5 cm; 7 3/32 in x 1 9/16 in x 6 1/2 in