ALTRAN Translator for the Bendix G-15 Computer
date: label: date made
content: 1962
name: label: maker
content: Bendix
notes: label: Description
content: ALTRAN is a programming language developed for the Bendix G-15 computer that translated programmer commands with alphabetic operation codes into optimized G-15 machine language commands. It precedes the language also called ALTRAN developed in the mid-1960s at Bell Laboratories and designed for the manipulation of algebraic functions (this second language was a modification of FORTRAN). This reference manual was published by Bendix in January of 1962 and has Bendix reference number APR-01621. This copy has annotations on the title page (not the cover) and on p.135.
label: Description
content: The document was received with a Bendix G-15 computer - for information on it, see acquisition 1988.0435.
label: Location
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: 1988.3106.49
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3106.49
label: nonaccession number
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