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<div dir="ltr">Greetings Guy,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">This is a fascinating subject — I suggest reaching out to CT Bartlett, archivist at BAE Systems (Formerly Elliott Automation). Bartlett was, himself, a junior engineer at Marconi-Elliott in the 1960s, and he is very knowledgeable on this — he
provided the technical reports and photographs for my paper, “Visions of Control: The Head Up Display, Perceptual Labor, and a Lesson for Augmented Reality.” He can be reached at<span> bartlettct@gmail.com.</span><span></span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Guy Fedorkow via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 12, 2024 10:13:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> members <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] ADIS cold-war air defense</font>
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<div>Greetings SIGCIS,<br>
The SAGE air defense system in the US, built in the late 1950's, is well known among Cold War historians-of-technology.<br>
But there was a competition prior to the awarding of the contract that became SAGE, to Lincoln Labs and IBM.<br>
The competing system was "Air Defense Information System", developed at the University of Michigan's Willow Run Laboratory, in the early 1950's. That, in turn, was based on a system developed in the U.K., by Elliott Automation, for naval air defense, as outlined
in Simon Lavginton's excellent book, "Moving Targets".<br>
I know the ADIS system was very different from MIT / Lincoln Labs' digital-computer proposal, but, other than being based on analog techniques, I know little about how ADIS works, and have not found a repository of technical reports.<br>
Is there anyone on this list who might have run into ADIS previously, and might be able to suggest where to search for a description of the ADIS technical approach?<br>
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Thanks<br>
/guy fedorkow<br>
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