Cuban-born journalist and author Alex Abella was allowed exclusive access inside the RAND Corporation to view their archives. What he discovered was a plot driven by mad scientists, behaviorists, and generals who were intent on starting world war three and fleecing the American people in the process. Once he was a skeptic on the subject of conspiracy theories and the new world order, but after his work with the RAND Corporation he is now convinced that this top secret think tank has been pulling the strings of American government for at least 60 years.
Were all the bastard children of RAND and we dont even know it, remarks Abella, as he charts how RAND started off as an organization centered around building new weapons for the military but ultimately expanded into politics, science, history and economics and was closely allied with the Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations. RANDs decision in the 50′s to re-model the globe towards a new world order changed everything, with the development of rational choice theory, which turned people from being citizens into consumers, as rights and responsibilities were replaced with choices and peoples lives slowly came to be dominated not by integrity or what they stood for, but by what they spent their money on.
RANDs ultimate goal was to have technocrats running every aspect of society in pursuit of a one world government that would be administered under the rule of reason, a ruthless world where efficiency was king and men were little more than machines, which is why RAND studied the social sciences because they were at a loss to work out how to deal with people and how human beings did not always act in their own predictable self-interests. There is no place for love, empathy or selflessness in the new world order that RAND and the Ford Foundation are working to create, and patriotism and altruism are adversarial to their aims.
Getting back to the IBM 1800, it appears that it's the main hub for the entire network.
The other one I recognized as a computer is the IBM 360/75.
When I was in the Air Force, my (now ex) wife (girlfriend at the time) worked at the SAGE building on base and this looks like what they used there in the mid 70's.
Maybe some of the computer experts here can make more sense of this diagram than I can.