The SAGE series. In 1959 a classified massive computer with 24 building size processing units spread across North America came online. Called SAGE its goal was to detect Russian nuclear bombers and fire missiles in a semi-automatic way to shoot them down. It was operated by thousands of military personnel and computer scientists watching oscilloscope screens. One day in 1966 in the underground bunker in North Bay Canada, the large projection screen, instead of displaying a map with dots for aircraft, progressively showed a series of images, icons and eventually letters. It was as if an alien intelligence was learning to communicate with humans by reading the knowledge in the computer. (fiction) See full story at https://www.patreon.com/posts/sage-anomaly-22775973 There is a secret message in the last frame.
