15 Epilogue
SAGE, and particularly the development of AN/FSQ-7, was clearly one of the biggest adventures in the history of computing and will always be remembered not only as such, but also as one of the most fertile projects of all time. It also demonstrated the amount of innovation possible on a basically unrestricted budget – a direct result of the Cold War – together with a healthy environment of open recognition of errors –something next to impossible in today’s cost driven environments:
“We built that big memory, and we didn’t go to the steering committee to get approval for it. We didn’t go up there and say, ‘Now, here’s what we ought to do, it’s going to cost this many million dollars, it’s going to take us this long, and you must ...
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