That paper is what led me to asking the Smithsonian if I could see the Joe George collection (since in their inventory of documents, they listed said 1974 "Overview of SCAMP" paper, so theirs is the only place I've seen a copy of it - marked as ZZ20-6426 of the Palo Alto Scientific Center (largely an IBM internal document at the time, other than that - I'm not sure what the intended publication audience was). Kitty Price was apparently an IBM 1130 expert, helping Patrick Smith host that system using PALM (so they were figuratively "tied at the hip" figuring out that integration). Kitty was hand writing advise about this (aspects of shadow memory and improving floating point precision), right as she was departing for maternity leave in Winter of '73 (per the journal notes).
Curious Marc once mentioned the SC/MP largely contributing to his early interest in computing - it was a later 1970s kit, right? But altogether unrelated to the 1973 IBM SCAMP. On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > While we're here, another note: on the SCAMP, they emulated the IBM > 1130's > > version of APL (so I may have misspoken earlier - it wasn't an IBM S/3 > they > > had trouble sourcing, but rather during the SCAMP dev it was an IBM 1130 > > they had trouble finding to borrow/lease). This SCAMP was the prototype > > leading to the IBM 5100 (where in the IBM 5100, they switched to using an > > S/360 based APL). > > > > > > On an off-chance of any IBMers out there, I'm still looking for Kitty > Price > > or Patrick Smith (two known experts of the PALM processor, they wrote a > > paper referring to it in 1974). In the appendix of that paper, they > refer > > to a "1130 PALM Simulator" (i.e. before the PALM was available to them, > > someone had developed a simulator of it on the 1130). Then in the next > > section, they refer to a "1130 Simulator which runs under VM/370". > Finding > > any of that software would be incredible. > > > > > <SCAMP/IBM_SCAMP_1of3_May1974_AnArchitecturalAndDesignOverviewOfScamp_PatrickSmith_KittyPrice_Part1.pdf > > at main · voidstar78/SCAMP > > < > > > https://github.com/voidstar78/SCAMP/blob/main/IBM_SCAMP_1of3_May1974_AnArchitecturalAndDesignOverviewOfScamp_PatrickSmith_KittyPrice_Part1.pdf > > > > > > > > > > > A whole other topic that gets little attention is the SC/MP processor, but > I digress. > > Where would the SCAMP / PALM paper have been published? I can check. > > Bill >
