The AN (military)/FSQ-7 (aka "Whirlwind II") intercept computer, developed by Cambridge Research Laboratory and IBM in partnership with the US Air Force, was, as its alias suggests, a modified Whirlwind (computer) computer. It was used in performing air defense command and control functions for the SAGE air defense system. The computer system was first tested by placing it at a control center in Cambridge, Massachusetts to receive data from a long-range and several short-range radars set up on Cape Cod. The key breakthrough was the development of magnetic core memory that vastly improved the machine's reliability, operating speed (×2), and input speed (×4) over the original storage vacuum tube memory. ==References== * Morton M. Astrahan, John F. Jacobs, ''History of the Design of the SAGE Computer - The AN/FSQ/7'' (''Annals of the History of Computing'', Vol. 5 (No. 4), 1983, pp. 340-349) ==External links== *[http://www.radomes.org/museum/equip/fsq-7.html AN/FSQ-7 "Whirlwind II" Intercept Computer] – From the Online Air Defense Radar Museum (by The Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association). Early computers Military computers
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The AN (military)/FSQ-7 (aka "Whirlwind II") intercept computer, developed by Cambridge Research Laboratory and IBM in partnership with the US Air Force, was, as its alias suggests, a modified Whirlwind (computer) computer. It was used in performing air defense command and control functions for the SAGE air defense system. The computer system was first tested by placing it at a control center in Cambridge, Massachusetts to receive data from a long-range and several short-range radars set up on Cape Cod. The key breakthrough was the development of magnetic core memory that vastly improved the machine's reliability, operating speed (×2), and input speed (×4) over the original storage vacuum tube memory. ==References== * Morton M. Astrahan, John F. Jacobs, ''History of the Design of the SAGE Computer - The AN/FSQ/7'' (''Annals of the History of Computing'', Vol. 5 (No. 4), 1983, pp. 340-349) ==External links== *[http://www.radomes.org/museum/equip/fsq-7.html AN/FSQ-7 "Whirlwind II" Intercept Computer] – From the Online Air Defense Radar Museum (by The Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association). Early computers Military computers
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