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- catalog abstract "Redmond and Smith reveal how the development of a continent-wide advance warning system against attack by missiles and manned aircraft set the stage for 1960's computing development. SAGE's design introduced concepts related to mass data processing that would later make personal and business computing a reality.".
- catalog contributor b12311754.
- catalog contributor b12311755.
- catalog contributor b12311756.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "1. "It worked!" -- 2. The beginning of the beginning -- 3. ADSEC -- 4. Valley's discovery -- 5. Managerial misgivings vs. technical accomplishments -- 6. The problem of "internal storage" -- 7. Project whirlwind's perspectives on computer R & D and air traffic control -- 8. Do it right, cut off, or temporize? -- 9. The Bedford tests -- 10. Project Charles -- 11. Lincoln laboratory -- 12. Organizing the tasks that faced Division 6 -- 13. Planning the air defense computer -- 14. The memory test computer -- 15. IBM and the air defense challenge -- 16. Collaborating on the XD-1 -- 17. Bringing IBM up to speed -- 18. Tight schedules, slippage, and project grind -- 19. Adjustments and triumphs -- 20. Slippage, the XD-1, and the XD-2 -- 21. Technical memorandum 20 : the pattern for the future system -- 22. The Air Force decides -- 23. National policy decisions -- 24. Implementing TM20 : "Who's in charge?" -- 25. The 1953 Cape Cod system -- 26. Further R & D planning and the 1954 Cape Cod system -- 27. Problems with manpower, computer programs, and intercept testing -- 28. Design progress and administrative reorganizing -- 29. Checking out the ESS -- 30. The problem : weapons integration and systems engineering -- 31. The solution : MITRE -- 32. Epilogue.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-531) and index.".
- catalog description "Redmond and Smith reveal how the development of a continent-wide advance warning system against attack by missiles and manned aircraft set the stage for 1960's computing development. SAGE's design introduced concepts related to mass data processing that would later make personal and business computing a reality.".
- catalog extent "vii, 535 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262182017 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "History of computing".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "355.4/5/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Military research United States History.".
- catalog subject "SAGE (Air defense system) History.".
- catalog subject "UG633 .R378 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. "It worked!" -- 2. The beginning of the beginning -- 3. ADSEC -- 4. Valley's discovery -- 5. Managerial misgivings vs. technical accomplishments -- 6. The problem of "internal storage" -- 7. Project whirlwind's perspectives on computer R & D and air traffic control -- 8. Do it right, cut off, or temporize? -- 9. The Bedford tests -- 10. Project Charles -- 11. Lincoln laboratory -- 12. Organizing the tasks that faced Division 6 -- 13. Planning the air defense computer -- 14. The memory test computer -- 15. IBM and the air defense challenge -- 16. Collaborating on the XD-1 -- 17. Bringing IBM up to speed -- 18. Tight schedules, slippage, and project grind -- 19. Adjustments and triumphs -- 20. Slippage, the XD-1, and the XD-2 -- 21. Technical memorandum 20 : the pattern for the future system -- 22. The Air Force decides -- 23. National policy decisions -- 24. Implementing TM20 : "Who's in charge?" -- 25. The 1953 Cape Cod system -- 26. Further R & D planning and the 1954 Cape Cod system -- 27. Problems with manpower, computer programs, and intercept testing -- 28. Design progress and administrative reorganizing -- 29. Checking out the ESS -- 30. The problem : weapons integration and systems engineering -- 31. The solution : MITRE -- 32. Epilogue.".
- catalog title "From whirlwind to MITRE : the R&D story of the SAGE air defense computer / Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".