I first lived on Ent and then moved to Peterson when they closed Ent.
Oh, yeah, I had lots of friends in Tech Control. In the 90s, they put tech control into the comm-computer field, as circuits became imps and then routers in milnet and siprnet. By the time I retired in 98, I was also a tech controller—by way of the combined AFSC only! But I did get my NT 4.0 MCSE...
But yeah, I actually went out on the little rowboat in the lake. My best friend was an electrician and had to maintain the water gauges therein.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Philco computers. They were the ones running the space operations center —Delta, and Missile warning—425L. Fornicator, as we called in (four and a quarter). They were old then—I think the original systems from the early sixties.
They were the only ones I could remember.... I was more concentrated on dual route missile warning circuits, frankly.
I was a 30770 at the time... The fastest circuits then were DSTE around 300 baud....much of everything was still analog.