(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) The air defense system developed in the 1950s for the Cold War. SAGE combined computer systems and a sophisticated radar and communications system to track U.S. air space and send the data to 23 installations around the country. Each installation had its own computer and backup system. SAGE used CRTs, and a light pen was used to hone in on a suspicious blip on the screen.
SAGE never intercepted enemy aircraft because there were none, but the companies that built the machines, such as IBM, gained extraordinary experience that was brought to bear in later development. The SAGE computers evolved from the Whirlwind computer at MIT (see Whirlwind).
The Whirlwind I
The Whirlwind was developed at MIT and became the prototype for the SAGE air defense computers. The use of CRTs and light pens were developed for the Whirlwind and became critical parts of the user interface. You could touch a blip on screen to get more information. (Image courtesy of The MITRE Corporation Archives.)
SAGE never intercepted enemy aircraft because there were none, but the companies that built the machines, such as IBM, gained extraordinary experience that was brought to bear in later development. The SAGE computers evolved from the Whirlwind computer at MIT (see Whirlwind).
The Whirlwind I
The Whirlwind was developed at MIT and became the prototype for the SAGE air defense computers. The use of CRTs and light pens were developed for the Whirlwind and became critical parts of the user interface. You could touch a blip on screen to get more information. (Image courtesy of The MITRE Corporation Archives.)
 | Reproduced with permission from Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Copyright (c) 1981-2008 The Computer Language Company Inc. All rights reserved. |
Additional Resources
- Sybase rides growing database business into mobility innovation, says Chen at user conference
- Sybase rides growing database business into mobility innovation, says Chen at user conferenceYet another closed SQL database.They only exist cause companies insist on keeping their stuff locked down. However, more and more people are switching to open formats. So i personally think their time is limited.Intergy, software from...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- rTools Reporting Software for Sage Accpac ERP (zip)
- rTools is a Microsoft Excel based reporting software for Sage ACCPAC ERP like none other. All reports are completely auto-generated using powerful, automatic layout and formatting. As you use rTools, your preferences are automatically stored generating more insightful and meaningful reports each time you use the rTools Reporting Wizard. During...
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyGoogle earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyAnd the ship starts to sink...I hope no one was expecting them to have a good quarter considering their lack of innovation, discontinuing services, and their prized possession of search...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Sage Order Importer 2008 (exe)
- Sage Order Importer is an application specifically designed to integrate your e-commerce Web site with your Sage Line 50/Sage 50 Accounts software. It has the ability to download your Web site orders data and save it to Sage in the form of invoice or Sales Orders SOP depending on your...
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of Linux
- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of LinuxPlagiarism, Jason? :-)Exactly my thoughts, in a Talkback some time ago:http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10535-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=46338&messageID=858549&start=0Greeting, Pjotr.Planet DietsYou forgot to mean the lean but mean Mars Ubuntu, and of course the sweet Venus Ubuntu versions just to get back to the basic...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Bubble thinking
- This story from Don Dodge is almost guaranteed to get the bubblehead bar-room investment experts speculating about whether we are in an investment bubble and whether it is in what Don describes as stage two where: Stage Two is more dangerous. Many people agree that we are in a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"
- Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security researcher Russ McRee has purchased our certifications, see http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com. God is good and created YouTube for laughs...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Sales Force Automation Comparison Guide
- Businesses of all sizes can benefit by automating all aspect of their sales processes with an SFA Sales Force Automation solution. But due to the sheer number of features that most SFA solutions contain, researching your options can be a time-consuming task. Inside CRM has done a lot of the...
- White papers 2008-05-15
- European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?
- Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- LendingTree insiders leak customer data
- LendingTree, an online loan referral service owned by IAC, has informed select customers that their confidential data has been leaked to "a handful of lenders" by company insiders. An email to customers that may have been impacted by the breach refers folks to an FAQ that's basically...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Delta Credit Manager (zip)
- Stores debtor details and invoices. Issues reminder letters. Issues County Court claims. Calculates court fees and statutory interest. Enters judgment Issues enforcements including warrants, the High Court Sheriff and Statutory Demands. Prints all legal forms; Chases by email. Network versions available. Stores images of invoices and legal documents. Import CSV...
- Software downloads 2008-03-20
- The media center keyboard Apple should have made
- The media center keyboard Apple should have madeYou left off the obvious choice.A Media Center PC which runs rings arround all of the choices you listed.perfectHalf way through this article I called my friend who has a mac desktop tower hooked to a HDTV in his living room. This...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- News to know: Microsoft's Hyper-V and reorg; NetSuite; Cisco patches; MacBook Air diary
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice Dana Gardner: Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center Dan Kusnetzky: Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky? Former Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- NetSuite bullish on saas business, swipes at SAP, Microsoft and Sage
- During the first earnings conference call following its IPO, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson was in bullish mood, summarizing 2007 as "The year of the suite. By any measure...the move to the on-demand imperative became inevitable." International revenue doubled and now international revenues account for 18 per cent compared to 14...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Sage (xpi)
- Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. Features include: Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds, Feed Discovery, Integrates with Firefox's bookmark storage and Live Bookmarks, Imports and...
- Software downloads 2008-02-07
- Forget predictions, get a wishlist
- At this time of the year, pundits of all stripes seek to grab attention by appearing sage and wise by making predictions for the coming year. Heck, I've done it myself - and lived to regret such pretensions. This year I prefer to pen an enterprise wishlist because that's...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Sage - not a piece of cake, but powerful and open
- Sage - not a piece of cake, but powerful and openHow does it relate to RI know - R is a different kind of program. But I just wondered how the two are linked or are not linked as both seem to be powerful open source tools for math.Thanks anyhow...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Sage - not a piece of cake, but powerful and open
- Developed at the University of Washington, with contributions from mathematicians worldwide, Sage is a relatively new open-source tool designed to supplant proprietary mathematical analysis programs like Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica. All of these programs are mainstays of most mathematicians' toolkits, but have recently come under scrutiny because of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Don't weep for underappreciated enterprise software
- For weekend entertainment and attention, Robert Scoble used the word "sexy" in a headline, referencing a LiveSide.Net interview with Bill Gates where he said that the press naming the Wall Street Journal doesn't appreciate that Microsoft's enterprise/business software is underappreciated and at the heart of the company's vast riches....
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
Neighboring Terms
Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
- Intel IT Data Center Efficiency Initiative - Going Green
-
"See how Intel is consolidating down to 8 global data center hubs through the use of consolidation, virtualization and standardization. The initiative is expected to save Intel $1.8B by project completion.
- See how Intel plans to save $1.8 billion >>
- Visit the all new ZDNet Enterprise Mobility Hub sponsored by Verizon Wireless. It has the latest news, commentary, and resources for your mobile strategy development.
- Read the latest from Matthew Miller's The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog
- Five steps to protect mobile devices anywhere, anytime
- Watch a video about Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
- Learn how you can fetch your email from anywhere
- All this and more on the ZDNet Enterprise Mobility Hub
