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 | | SDC grew out of the Rand Corp.'s System Research Laboratory (a USAF think-tank) and an MIT Lincoln Labs project - SAGE(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), an air defense system. |
 | | SAGE was the "first computer-based, real-time, online, manmachine system;" and "it revolutionized the information industry by spanning the prehistoric computer era of serial batch processing and the modern world of interactive systems;" (The System Builders, p.20) |
 | | Contains the records of the SDC, including a history file with information about the RAND Corporation, the System Development Division, and the SDC; Also contains correspondence, meetings and minutes, symposiums and presentations, poduct literature, technical iterature, reports, and a subject file; unpublished inventory available from the repository; Forms part of the Burroughs Corporations Records. |
| www.libsci.sc.edu /BOB/ISP/sdcorp.htm (130 words) |
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