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ORAC
No, both the T84 and T85 were based on the Ops site and fed directly into the R30 Ops block. Remote radar sites only started coming back in with the e introduction of the T90 and T91 radars in the 1980s - necessitating the use of a DPAVC* to convert their digital output to analogue in order to interface with the current consoles until UKADGE came on-line.
Which is another story of vanishing blips and data buffer overloads…
*Digital Plot to Analogue Video Converter.
Yet another story of UK Air Defence System computers not being good enough to do the job. I saw DPAVC getting installed at Bishops Court in mid 1990. Never saw it work as they closed the base before it was commissioned (Plus the Type 93 there was always U/S). I would love to know how they intend to get a TPS-177 into the remaining site at Neatishead.
Still remember Duncan Campbell's program about British Air Defence Computer screw ups.