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QUEASY(ID:105/que001)

NOTS autocode for IBM 701 

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Country: United States
Designed 1955
Published: 1955
Genus: Low-level Autocoders
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet

for Quick and Easy, but also for queasy because the programmers might get seasick!

(Sometimes spelled QUESY)

Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) Inyokern (later China Lake Station) interpreted autocode for the IBM 701. QUEASY was used by Harley Tillet et al to build the first ever (1953) information retrieval system on a general purpose computer

According to the IBM 701 page, the machine at China Lake was delivered on Aug. 27, 1953, and was "Used to calculate rocket and missile performance and to simulate flight conditions of these devices at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake"

However Bemer 1957 says that QUEASY was operational June 55.

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References:
  • Fleischman, A. M. and Oldfield, B. G. (1955) Fleischman, A. M. and Oldfield, B. G. "QUESY coding system", Report No. 5075-10 Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, 1955
  • Bemer (1957) Bemer, R. W. "The Status of Automatic Programming for Scientific Problems" Abstract Extract: Summary Extract: IT, FORTRANSIT, SAP, SOAP, SOHIO
          in [Armour] (1957) "Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Computer Applications Symposium" , Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1957
  • Bemer (1958) [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library August 1958]
          in [Armour] (1957) "Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Computer Applications Symposium" , Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1957
  • [Bemer] (1959) [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library May 1959] Extract: Obiter Dicta
          in [ACM] (1959) [ACM] CACM 2(05) May 1959
  • Carr (1959) Carr, John W III; "Computer Programming" volume 2, chapter 2, pp115-121
          in Crabbe et al (1957) E. M. Crabbe, S. Ramo, and D. E. Wooldridge (eds.) "Handbook of Automation, Computation, and Control," John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1959.
  • Bemer, R (1962) Bemer, R "ISO TC97/SC5/WGA(1) Survey of Programming Languages and Processors" December 1962
          in [ACM] (1963) [ACM] CACM 6(03) (Mar 1963)
  • Tillett, Harley E. (1983) Tillett, Harley E. "The 701 at the U.S. Navy China Lake Installation, Inyokern, California" pp198-200
          in [AOHC] (1983) Annals of the History of Computing, 05(2) April-June 1983 IEEE (IBM 701 Issue)
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