ALGO Algebraic Compiler for the Bendix G-15 Computer
date: label: date made
content: 1961
name: label: maker
content: Bendix
notes: label: Description
content: This screw-bound document is a programming manual for the ALGO algebraic compiler for the Bendix G-15 Computer, prepared by the Program Development Group of the Application Section of the Bendix Computer, and approved by T. Yamashita. For more information agout it, see 1988.3106.41 to 1988.3106.45. The document was received with a G-15 computer having acquisition number 1988.0345.
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content: The T. Yamashita who approved the publication was most probably Tak Yamashita (b.1917), a Japanese-American raised in Crystal Cove, California whose family moved to avoid internment during World Wat II, settling first in Cedar City, Utah and then Crowley, Colorado. Crowley obtained a BS from the University of Colorado's College of Engineering and soon thereafter was drafted into the US Army, as the country was at war with Korea. He received advanced training in guided missiles as well as the programming and operation of high speed computing devices. In particular, he was assistant chief of the computation laboratory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, where he worked under Werner von Braun. After honorable discharge from the Army in 1955, he returned to California, completing courses at UCLA and USC's Graduate School of Business. He worked as an executive for Bendix and then for Northrop Corporation.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry D. and Velma R. Huskey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3106.46
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content: 1988.3106.46
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content: 1988.3106
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm