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That question jogged my memory and I remembered the name AN/UYK. Googling that, I found they were the computers used by the US Navy. All advertisements in the mid-1970s for that computer were for assembly language programmers. With about 4K of memory, they certainly were programmed only in assembler.

Googling for Semi Automatic Ground Environment, that was a network of 27 computers across the US that were connected to radar sites that scanned the skies for incoming Russian bomber fleets. The vacuum-tube IBM mainframes had a max of 64K of memory. You could be sure that they were too programmed in Assembler.

While SAGE gave the order to launch the missiles, the missiles themselves were controlled by on-board computers with 4K of memory. You could be pretty sure nothing would fit in that memory except assembly language programs.

As the missile fleet was modernised, I am sure the US Department of Defense moved to ADA. Perhaps now, it is in C or C++.

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