For one exciting moment there I thought that you were talking about the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment - which a friend of mine was a tech on in North Bay, ON, part of the DEW line!
I was getting ready to up stakes and hop off to Philadelphia! cheers, Nigel Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TILBURY2591 nw.john...@ieee.org On 2021-01-02 8:44 p.m., Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 7:11 PM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> This may be old news -- it was new to me, though. >> >> >> https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer >> >> I'm not really familiar with SAGE machines. They were not as >> well-known in the UK, I think, being upmarket from the Apple ][ and >> IBM PC, both of which were eye-wateringly expensive by UK standards of >> the time. >> >> Also, they were terminal-based things and even back then I was >> interested in boxes with graphics. :-) >> > There is a SAGE II at Kennett Classic. When I give tours I like to compare > and contrast the SAGE with the IBM PC, Motorola 68000 vs Intel 8086. > > If anyone is in the Philadelphia area stop by and we can fire them up. > Pascal. > > Bill >