"Dennis Ferguson" wrote:

I've been trying to figure out who would have enough
money to buy, and the talent to make use of, the 1960's
computing resources needed to do real-time Morse
decoding in any volume. The list of possibilities is
really, really short.


I believe the whole thing, at least at that facility, was an Air Force
project. My father maintained the equipment (I don't think he had anything
to do with collecting information). There were perhaps a dozen (at most,
perhaps less) other guys working there. I never saw all of the people at one
time, so that's just a guess. At least three of those were civilians (or at
least I never saw them in a uniform). It was probably related to SAC
(Strategic Air Command), because that's where my father worked just before
and after that duty assignment. A few years later, he went to a similar (he
said) facility in Korea and, still later, another in Greenland. He mentioned
once where the information went to, but I only have a vague recollection of
that and no idea today where he said.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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