Websites

Check out two pages from the Computer History Museum. “A SAGE Defense” covers the machine itself and “How Big was SAGE?” discusses its uses and context.

Read the “SAGE” article from the History of Computers for a longer, narrative history and description of the computer system.

Videos

This film on SAGE from the 1960s covers the necessity of the system, its  components, the institutions that collaborated on SAGE, the teams that interacted to control SAGE, and a ‘simulation’ of how an attack on the US would be prevented by SAGE.

Articles

IEEE: “History and Design of the SAGE Computer – The AN/FSQ-7, Morton M. Astrahan, John F. Jacobs. This article discusses the design of the SAGE computer and the software systems that went into it. Beginning with pre-SAGE systems and the need for SAGE, it goes on to discuss the plans for SAGE and  the innovations introduced by the computer.

Books

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, 148-152