Super Combat Center
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A Super Combat Center was a planned Cold War command and control facility for ten NORAD regions/Air Divisions in Canada and the United States. For installation in nuclear bunkers, the command posts we
The CFB North Bay underground bunker had been planned for a Super Combat Center but was equipped with a vacuum tube AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central after the Q-7 successor, the solid-state AN/FSQ-32, was cancelled.
The AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, referred to as the Q7, was a computerized air defense command and control system. It was used by the United States Air Force for ground-controlled interception a
Super Combat Center
…by April 1964 included fielding 3 additional AN/FSQ-32 systems above-ground for the Albuquerque, Miami, and Shreveport sectors. (Plans for vacuum tube AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Centrals to be installed in hardened "cube" buildings were continued for 21 SAGE Air Defense Direction Centers for most of the 27 NORAD Sectors.) SCCs were to…
The AN/FSQ-7 included a Maintenance Intercom System (the phone on end of cabinet).
Situation Display console and other parts at Computer History Museum
The AN/FSQ-7 had 100 system consoles, including the OA-1008 Situation Display (SD) with a light gun (at end of cable under plastic museum cover), cigarette lighter, and ash tray (left of the light gun).
Maintenance Console