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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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