Mar 16, 2012 - No. No one ever built an explicit Turing machine until modern times when it became feasible for interested hobbyists, artists, and others to make them as novelties. The Turing Machine is an idea used to inquire about what is possible with computer systems.
Feb 19, 2012 - A strange game... The only winning move is not to play. (WOPR, "War Games")
Was the strange light gun device the ancestor of the Vectrex light pen?
Feb 3, 2012 - Ah, the good old days when you could actually buy real computers that had the smell of diesel and that came bundled with missile launchers for an extra fee. Sure beats playing World of Warcraft on your laptop...
Jan 17, 2012 - The answer is "yes", it could. But when I worked in SAGE in the late 70s, the BOMARCS and other missiles were decommissioned; only fighter interceptor aircraft remained to engage an unknown or target. My memory is that all such intercepts were ultimately under manual voice control from the weapon controllers based at the SAGE sites, who tracked everything using the SAGE-digitized radar presentations. In a general peacetime environment, this would be the safest way to identify a plane.
Jan 17, 2012 - The SAGE computer relied on raw radar input data from multiple ground sites to determine the aircraft's location and track. No satellites used.
Jan 17, 2012 - LOL! I worked in SAGE a long time ago. The Windows Paper Clip would have been super, yet just as annoying as it was in the 1990s! I think we would have turned it off.
Jan 17, 2012 - I remember well the SAGE (semi-automated ground environment) system. In 1978 I was assigned to be a weapons controller at the 21st NORAD Region at Hancock Field, NY, an air defense site. I got to do what you see the guys at the radar consoles doing. The SAGE computer took up an entire floor of the blockhouse.It was big. Today, a desktop PC would work. I think it ran an antiquated (even in '78) operating system called JOVIAL.Considering this was technology from the 50s it worked surprisingly well
Jan 16, 2012 - @lexvalesa
I'm sorry, I can't really follow what you're trying to say. There was never any standing policy to shoot down commercial aircraft that deviated from their flight plan.
Jan 15, 2012 - They said it could. Although, luckily, we never had to find out if it really worked on an enemy vehicle. It also could direct interceptor aircraft to the incoming vehicle, using FDDL abd TDDL (Freqeuncy Division Data Link and Time Division Data Link). Eventually AWAACS negated the need for these command posts. (I never worked on actual warfare computer programs, mine was in the area of reporting and analyzing outages of all the black boxes in the system.
Jan 14, 2012 - Bingo, we have that insane policy, and funny thing, it was "tested" in an exercise exactly that morning but not on the real targets. This led to a convenient "confusion" in the defense system and voila, here we are in Iraq and Afganistan :D... lol.
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humbleradio Says:
May 16, 2012 - Anyone know who the narrator is? I've heard his voice on many radio dramas and dubbed films, like Hercules Unchained, etc.
warvad Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - Look at how mechanical the technology was back then. Blows my motherfucking mind man.
Kg277 Says:
Apr 7, 2012 - 0:05 Dammnn.. That thing is bouncing like my gramma's titties!
cryptnotic Says:
Mar 16, 2012 - No. No one ever built an explicit Turing machine until modern times when it became feasible for interested hobbyists, artists, and others to make them as novelties. The Turing Machine is an idea used to inquire about what is possible with computer systems.
sdhubbard Says:
Mar 5, 2012 - Anyone else seeing this and thinking of Skynet from Terminator?
tomp2008 Says:
Mar 4, 2012 - this could still be in use today
KCRascal Says:
Feb 20, 2012 - @TheRoninkin. 74
TheRoninkin Says:
Feb 20, 2012 - Not to be mean but....How old are you? lol.
AerialTheShamen Says:
Feb 19, 2012 - A strange game... The only winning move is not to play. (WOPR, "War Games") Was the strange light gun device the ancestor of the Vectrex light pen?
TopOnTheAndroid Says:
Feb 14, 2012 - That thing even has a cigarette lighter!
unapologeticmind Says:
Feb 3, 2012 - Ah, the good old days when you could actually buy real computers that had the smell of diesel and that came bundled with missile launchers for an extra fee. Sure beats playing World of Warcraft on your laptop...
dapete Says:
Jan 19, 2012 - I had no idea Tom Hanks was so old.
swizzletik Says:
Jan 17, 2012 - The answer is "yes", it could. But when I worked in SAGE in the late 70s, the BOMARCS and other missiles were decommissioned; only fighter interceptor aircraft remained to engage an unknown or target. My memory is that all such intercepts were ultimately under manual voice control from the weapon controllers based at the SAGE sites, who tracked everything using the SAGE-digitized radar presentations. In a general peacetime environment, this would be the safest way to identify a plane.
swizzletik Says:
Jan 17, 2012 - The SAGE computer relied on raw radar input data from multiple ground sites to determine the aircraft's location and track. No satellites used.
swizzletik Says:
Jan 17, 2012 - LOL! I worked in SAGE a long time ago. The Windows Paper Clip would have been super, yet just as annoying as it was in the 1990s! I think we would have turned it off.
swizzletik Says:
Jan 17, 2012 - I remember well the SAGE (semi-automated ground environment) system. In 1978 I was assigned to be a weapons controller at the 21st NORAD Region at Hancock Field, NY, an air defense site. I got to do what you see the guys at the radar consoles doing. The SAGE computer took up an entire floor of the blockhouse.It was big. Today, a desktop PC would work. I think it ran an antiquated (even in '78) operating system called JOVIAL.Considering this was technology from the 50s it worked surprisingly well
MightySaturn5 Says:
Jan 17, 2012 - very well said
Sylderon Says:
Jan 16, 2012 - @lexvalesa I'm sorry, I can't really follow what you're trying to say. There was never any standing policy to shoot down commercial aircraft that deviated from their flight plan.
KCRascal Says:
Jan 15, 2012 - They said it could. Although, luckily, we never had to find out if it really worked on an enemy vehicle. It also could direct interceptor aircraft to the incoming vehicle, using FDDL abd TDDL (Freqeuncy Division Data Link and Time Division Data Link). Eventually AWAACS negated the need for these command posts. (I never worked on actual warfare computer programs, mine was in the area of reporting and analyzing outages of all the black boxes in the system.
ngwro Says:
Jan 15, 2012 - American ads of that time were no different from Soviet ads! lmao!
lexvalesa Says:
Jan 14, 2012 - Was the system functional ? I mean, could it really track and shoot down a slow bomber only with radar guidance, as advertised ?
lexvalesa Says:
Jan 14, 2012 - Bingo, we have that insane policy, and funny thing, it was "tested" in an exercise exactly that morning but not on the real targets. This led to a convenient "confusion" in the defense system and voila, here we are in Iraq and Afganistan :D... lol.
askquestions Says:
Jan 14, 2012 - hm, something unknown on the radar... what to do, what to do... i know, let's blow it up!