BUIC FACT SHEET

Courtesy The Charles Babbage Institute
Center for the History of Information Technology
211 Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota

The following is from a memo in the Burroughs Corporation Collection, Product Literature (CBI 90), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

FROM:

BURROUGHS CORPORATION
Detroit, Michigan 48232
Phone: 875-2260, Ext. 2234
or contact:
Richard J. Brady
Defense, Space and Special Systems Group
Paoli, Pennsylvania
Phone: NIagara 4-6962

FACT SHEET

AN/GSA-51 Radar Course Directing Group for the Back Up Interceptor Control System (BUIC)

FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION:
BUIC is a semi-automatic backup to SAGE which provides for conduct of the air battle in the event that portions of SAGE become inoperative. Burroughs Corporation is providing the AN/GSA-51 Radar Course Directing Group which functions as the central control for Air Surveillance and Weapons Control for the BUIC system and includes the following general capabilities: