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| Columbo operating the SAGE computer |
Have you ever noticed the large computers in the computer operations room of movies and TV shows? They kinda of all look alike.
There is a good reason for that. These computers are remnants and copies of the SAGE A/N FSQ-7 computers, the largest computers ever built. This computer system was sold off to movie and TV productions companies and suppliers. The computer lives on in movies and TV shows.
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| THe SAGE computer on "Lost" |
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| Even on "That's So Raven"! Nothing is sacred... |
The SAGE computer was really large with a lot of parts. It's parts and copies have been used over and over in movies and TV shows. It it embodies all we envision a
really really super computer looks like.
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| The SAGE in real-life |
These pictures and many more can be found at a page called
The AN/FSQ-7 on TV and in the Movies by Mike Loewen. Lots of pics of the computer from TV and movies since the 1960's.
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| Of course - Batman had one |
They should re-commission these computers and use them at the SETI Institute to help them detect signals from ET.
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