The Burroughs AN/GSA-51 Radar Course Directing Group was a United States Air Force air defense command, control, and coordination system, part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system. It was intended to replace vacuum tube IBM AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Centrals. Developed under Electronic Systems Division's 416M Program, in 1962 Burroughs "won the contract to provide a military version of its D825" modular data processing system for the AN/GSA-51 to be used at "BUIC II radar sites" (follow-on to the initial Back-Up Interceptor Control System, BUIC) BUIC II was 1st used at North Truro Z-10 in 1966, and the Hamilton AFB BUIC II was installed in the former MCC building.
The first D825 computer was originally built for the Navy Research Laboratory with a designation of AN/GYK-3(V). The D825 contained between one and four 48 bit central processor/arithmetic units, up to 16 memory modules and up to 20 IO modules. The BUIC systems used "two computer modules, six memory modules and three input/output modules". The computer was designed for high availability and could still operate if any one of its modules failed.
References
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A SAGE component, a 64 x 64 magnetic core memory ... SAGE direction center. This installation is located at Stewart Air Force Base in New York state. ... combined direction-combat center was located at Syracuse, New York.
NOTE: Schaffel's history uses the same name as "The Emerging Shield: The Air Defense Ground Environment," Air University Quarterly Review 8, no. 2 (spring 1956). - DeWerth, John P. ...Sage Memories (personal notes) (Report). SMECC.org. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
Senior Director's keyed console...fire button
"[AN/GSA-51]". SMECC.org.BUIC ... Burroughs...D825 ... McChord AFB...August 1983
"Phoenix Air Defense Sector". SMECC.org.Luke AFB...February 1984
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"BUIC II radar sites would be capable of incorporating data feeds from other radar sectors directly onto their radar screens.
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A number of Super-SAGE Combat Centers (AN/FSQ-32) were planned, but none was built.
(T. E. Page cites: "Shield of Faith" by Bruce Briggs (Simon and Schuster, 1988.) - ^ Anderson, James P.; Hoffman, Samuel A.; Shifman, Joseph; Williams, Robert J. (1962). "D825 - a multiple-computer system for command & control". Proceedings of the December 4-6, 1962, fall joint computer conference on - AFIPS '62 (Fall). pp. 86–96. doi:10.1145/1461518.1461527. S2CID 1186864.
- ^ "BUIC Fact Sheet". Burroughs Corporation. Archived from the original on July 29, 2003. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- Thompson, Rankin N. & Wilkinson, John A. (1963). "The D825 automatic operating and scheduling program". Proceedings of the May 21-23, 1963, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '63 (Spring). AFIPS '63 (Spring). pp. 41––49. doi:10.1145/1461551.1461558. S2CID 16688308.