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Old 5th Jan 2022, 23:00
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First became aware of SAGE as a kid reading up on fighters like the F-106 but never realized it was such a huge and expensive undertaking - $Billions from 1958 - when the UK was still using WWII type map tables and backwards writing with chinograph in the 1970s !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-A...nd_Environment





1970s RAF recruiting film:

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