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For 7 years of my young life as an Airman, I was a maintenance man on the NORAD SAGE Computer System (IBM Q-7). Well, yesterday I had a nice conversation with an old Master Sergeant that I used to work with at the 24th NORAD Region in Great Falls, MT back in the 70s. Mike is now in his 80s and long since retired. I had looked him up to inform him that another former co-worker who is still in Great Falls just had to have a leg amputated due to circulation problems.
As we were talking and reminiscing about the good old days, he told me that he and another Msgt who was also retired but still living in the area were invited to the final shut down of the old NORAD SAGE Computer at Malmstrom AFB (circa 1980-ish). Turns out Mike had the distinct honor of pushing the button that shut down the power from the SAGE computer for the last time. The old "block house" that housed the SAGE System is still there but has been turned in to offices.
This conversation caused me to do some searching on the internet about the SAGE system and, while on the Lincoln Labs/MIT site, I learned something I did not know:
As we were talking and reminiscing about the good old days, he told me that he and another Msgt who was also retired but still living in the area were invited to the final shut down of the old NORAD SAGE Computer at Malmstrom AFB (circa 1980-ish). Turns out Mike had the distinct honor of pushing the button that shut down the power from the SAGE computer for the last time. The old "block house" that housed the SAGE System is still there but has been turned in to offices.
This conversation caused me to do some searching on the internet about the SAGE system and, while on the Lincoln Labs/MIT site, I learned something I did not know:
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