13 May
2025
13 May
'25
11:39 p.m.
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 <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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
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.
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