This 1956 film was produced by IBM's Military Products Division to promote two of their systems - SAGE and BRANE. SAGE stands for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment and consisted of a number of command centers throughout the US that collected and analyzed data on aircraft and deployed defensive aircraft. General Electric produced the AN/FPS-6 Height Finder Radar and the AN/GKA-4 Flight Control Data Link. BRANE stands for Bombing RAdar Navigation Equipment and was a predecessor of General Electrics Airborne Warning and Control radars. Although decommissioned in 1984 the Syracuse SAGE building still stands near Syracuse's Hancock Airport and bonus material consisting of newspaper articles and photographs of that installation follow the IBM film in this video. While the description of IBM's SAGE computer as state-of-the-art seems curious now, the film is a good insight into early computer technology in the 1950's.
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