TIME TUNNEL COMPUTERS aka ANSF-Q7 of Air Force SAGE Radar Systems Today
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2009
- This footage is of the computer panels that were used in the classic 60's science fiction series called "The Time Tunnel". Series producer Irwin Allen requested that 20th Century-Fox studios acquire the equipment specifically for his series when the Air Force offered them as surplus sometime in the early 1960s (they were being replaced by newer satellite-based radar technologies). "The Time Tunnel" series only ran one year, so these panels made appearances in other Irwin Allen 20th-Fox productions like "Lost in Space", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Land of the Giants", etc. Movies that featured these computers included Woody Allen's "Sleeper", "City Beneath the Sea" (TV-movie), "The Towering Inferno", and "The Swarm", among others.
The computer panels exist today in a Hollywood prop shop specializing in electronics. - Розваги
Thanks so much for posting!! I loved the Time Tunnel, seeing as how I was 8 y.o. when it debuted. Those years of '67 to '69 were the best for we sci-fi fans!! Lost in Space,Batman,The Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, The Invaders with Roy Thinnes!!, and of course Star Trek too!! Also thanks to those of you who are sharing personal anecdotes about these shows!!
That's pretty cool! That computer has a better acting resume than I do!!!
My dad worked on SAGE right out of the air force after the Korean war where he was stationed at Andersen on Guam. I do specifically remember him pointing at the TV while watching that show and telling us computer part numbers and names and so forth. Pretty fun to come across this video now.
Sorry, my bad. I thought that Irwin Allen purchased this computer equipment for his own personal use. However, these are fantastic. When I was up in Los Angeles for a sci-fi and comic book convention, someone brought a Burroughs computer console that was used on Lost in Space. As I recall, it was given the designation, B-205.
I love the look of these and how they have appeared in so much stuff.
This is like heaven on earth, what I wouldn't give to own that! Thanks for posting!
The lights, the colors
All that computing power used to flash light bumbs, amazing.
One day Speilberg and Howard should do(to the letter) the original Time tunnel pilot in movie form.
This stuff just looks so cool.
I think that occasionally , these have been seen at various sci-fi/comic conventions. I saw one of the Burroughs B-205 computer consoles at a convention in Los Angeles. I've always dreamed of having props such as this as my very own. Think about it as an ultimate conversation piece. I'd show it off proudly.
@Spindriftful Actually, I learned from the current owner that indeed Irwin Allen did NOT own this equipment. But it was Allen who REQUESTED that 20th Century-Fox purchase them because he needed alot of 'hi-tech' equipment for his new series, "The Time Tunnel". The father of the gentleman who currently owns the equipment purchased them from Fox when they had a big auction back in 1976 Turns out Irwin Allen had to rent them from this guy when he made "The Swarm" in 1978.
and to think, there's a 1000 times the computing power in one cell phone of today (or even a a rice sized super micro chip.. )than this monstrosity, I love seeing these props..I wonder where the astro navigator from the Jupiter II went ? you always saw the same console computers in Irwin Allen shows and batman..
These computer were once part of the SAGE systems and part of the Strategic Air Defense systems. If you do a search for SAGE computers and air defense you will be amazed at how INDEED those machines were involved in TOP secret military stuff of the 1950s! The giant units quickly became obsolete and started being sold as surplus starting in the early 60s. However several complexes with these units operated into the late 60s.
they were also in the series batllestar galactica , the original series as used on a cylon base star.
Proper designation: AN/FSQ-7
Thanks for vid BTW.
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That set-up would look so cool in my den.
Irwin Allen was a visionary, these were actually his property. He purchased these computers from the Air Force after they were mothballed. His first production, The Time Tunnel, first used on TV.
These computers appeared most recently on SUPERGIRL, in the episode "Solitude," broadcast in the U.S. on 29 Feb 2016.
This is the maintenance console for the AN/FSQ-7 S.A.G.E computer system, this is not the computer itself, it is much larger due to the fact that it was based on relays and vacuum tubes originally. Later it became a hybrid system utilizing solid state components. The system was duplex in nature. There was also a third computer, the AN/FSQ-8, it was the same as the Q-7 but programed for battle analysis and weapon control.
It's correctly labeled "AN/SFQ-7"
😅😊😅well information good show 😅
These were part of the Simplex system of the overall AN/SFQ-7, not the main units.
Funny how large scale server facilities today have racks of equipment that look a lot like that as the Hi performance Dells or other PCs or Cisco switches are stacked
Love it show more.Fox used these on everything till the late 70s.
And to think I actually worked with these while in the Air Force while at Hancock Field, Syracuse, New York; 21st Air Divison some 45 years ago.
That's just a very very small part of the entire computer. The whole thing occupied something like 22,000 square feet of floor space. Computers didn't start shrinking until transistors took over, and then they really started getting miniaturized (and more powerful) later in the '60s when integrated circuits became common.
This looks like the maintenance console, this is not all of it as there were also dot matrix printers. The Q-7 was a redundant system and toward the end it had become a hybrid system as vacuum tube components were replaced with transistorized parts, this helped to reduce the demand on the AC systems that kept it from melting down due to the huge amount of heat it generated. The Q-7 was primarily in control of tracking and identifying targets while an identical computer called the AN/FSQ-8 whose primary function was weapons control and combat analysis. I never worked directly with these computers as I was an electronic counter countermeasures tech, we in this field were stationed at long range radar sites to control the amount and quality of the data sent to the mainframes from search systems, this was necessary due to the limited system memory and processing power, the system could be overloaded with extraneous data caused by conditions like anomalous propagation and extreme weather which could lead to loss of tracking. One thing that came out of this was the light pens used on the SID consoles that led to the invention of the computer mouse we use today.
Really amazing!
very kool
pretty sure these are from earlier ibm or DEC computers and not the an/fsq-7 as it didnt have tons of the blinking panels like the office models did. they also look like they have panels from early (like 1950s) guidance computer panels.
@BlueHeavenBound Even our home computers can overheat. They do contain fans to keep them cool!
These are still being used on TV and in the movies.
thanks
Check your facts. This computers were NOT sold for surplus starting in the 60's. They provided active air defense up until the early 80's. I had the privilege of helping to remove the one at McChord.
I saw these in use on an episode of "Lost".
It is interesting to note that indeed thes
Where are the panels with the 30 inch Cathode Ray Tubes that showed those rotating spirals? They're missing. What happened to them?
all these ears and i thought they were fake blinking lights lol!
@FUBUXGEAR Did they really blink as much as that in real life or was that just rigged up for the tv cameras?
like the old bat-computer
Theres a black and white Barbera Stanwyck movie (circa 1953) where she's on the Titanic that had some of these panels in use.
It predates 1960..
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Surely you're mistaken. The SAGE system became operational in 1961.
Some of the sets in the 1953 Titanic were reused in the first episode of The Time Tunnel in 1966. The Titanic movie didn't have a computer but it did have a radio room.
I have a feeling some of the light elements didnt come from the SAGE system? @@jsl151850b
@Patti51Lynn Call the AF and thell them you want it back ASAP
so who owns this now, is it displayed someplace ?
IBM SAGE units.
hey they arent light bulbs ._. they are called vacume tubes!
Just think an IPod touch has far more power than this monster - but somehow it isn't as cool although I wouldn't like trying to balance this on my lap. It would provide a talking point on my train though.
It is not exactly. As well as the on board Apollo computer wasn't "zillion" times inferior to your iPhone in terms of performance. It is not scientifically true.
@@KRYPTOS_K5 The Apollo computer was a good one designed specifically for its task.
I don't think you understood my original comment.
Is windows 95 on them?
3.1
No... Only the grand father of MSDOS.
What is this buck rodgers wheres tweeky