Q32 (ANFSQ-32) was a computer made by IBM (International Business Machines) in 1960 and 1961 for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC). Three units were built and installed at SAC headquarters in outside Omaha, Nebraska, March Air Force Base, Riverside, California and System Development Corporation (SDC) headquarters, Santa Monica, California. A computer is a device or machine for processing information according to a program — a compiled list of instructions. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... Information regarding the film Strategic Air Command may be found under a separate article The Strategic Air Command or SAC was the branch of the United States Air Force in charge of Americas bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal, as well as the infrastructure necessary to... System Development Corporation, based in Los Angeles, California, was spun off from RAND Corporation in 1957. ...

The computer words were 48 bits long and the main core memory was 256K words. The memory bank was oil and water cooled.

The computers were part of the SAC command and control system. SDC developed the system software using JOVIAL (Jules Own Version of an Algebric Language), one of the first high level complied programming languages.