Format Web Page "The complete SAGE software effort exceeded one million machine instructions." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title How a Government Think Tank Trained The First Generation of US Software Developers Source authors Brian Potter Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "By 1959, System Development Corporation had about 800 programmers working on SAGE." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title How a Government Think Tank Trained The First Generation of US Software Developers Source authors Brian Potter Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "RAND initially estimated that programming SAGE would require about 100 programmers." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title How a Government Think Tank Trained The First Generation of US Software Developers Source authors Brian Potter Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "IBM, MIT, and Bell Labs declined to take responsibility for the full-scale SAGE programming effort, leaving RAND to assume the production software burden." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title How a Government Think Tank Trained The First Generation of US Software Developers Source authors Brian Potter Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "IBM handled SAGE computer hardware while RAND’s System Development organization took responsibility for much of the production software effort." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title SAGE Source authors IBM Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "SAGE operators interacted with computer displays using a light-sensing gun invented at MIT Lincoln Laboratory by Robert Everett." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System Source authors MIT Lincoln Laboratory Source year 2019 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Jay Forrester developed the coincident-current magnetic-core memory system used in Whirlwind." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title Jay W. Forrester Source authors Computer History Museum Source year 1995 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Whirlwind was the first electronic stored-program digital computer to operate in real time." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title Jay W. Forrester Source authors Computer History Museum Source year 1995 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Project Whirlwind provided much of the technological and organizational foundation for SAGE." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title Whirlwind: Preparing the Way for SAGE Source authors Computer History Museum Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "SAGE is recognized as the largest computer system ever built." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Scaffolding for influence - Root Source title Largest computer Source authors Guinness World Records Source year 1963 Confidence high Importance mid
