The
Complex Operations room as it appears today. Not much left
really, though the remains of the Launch console can be seen at
left. The raised flooring has been mostly removed, leaving the
supports. The raised floor allowed for the routing of conduit
and cabling under the equipment which kept it out of the way. As
this room had so much equipment in it, it tended to get rather noisy,
so this room was outfitted with acoustical baffling in the ceiling.
On
the other side of the upper level of the Control Center was the
Communications Equipment room that contained the phone, alarm,
intercom and other comm systems equipment used in the Titan I.
Bell
& Howell, AT&T, WECO (Western Electric CO), Stromberg Carlson
and a host of other telco and communications companies' systems were
installed to make the site functional. As the Titans were so
large in scale, they required a very complex comm system and were
outfitted with systems similar to what a college campus might have had
in 1960.
All
work areas needed to be in contact with each other in case they needed
to contact, or be contacted by any other if there was a need to do
so. This meant there were phones everywhere-- there were phones
on the surface, phones at the guard shack, phones at the launchers and
phones at the antennas; there were phones in the control center on
each level in multiple locations, there were phones throughout the
Power House (though I wonder if anyone could hear them), phones
in the entry portal, main tunnel and phones in the fuel terminal; each
equipment terminal had phones on all 4 levels and the silos themselves
had phones at each level of the cribwork and at the personnel tunnel;
there were phones in the propellant terminal and the LOX bay and even
in the air handling facilities. In short, there were a SH*TLOAD
of phones!