The prototype is in the Smithsonian Institution. Because it was the first to emulate APL1130 performance on a portable, single-user computer, PC Magazine in 1983 designated SCAMP a 'revolutionary concept' and 'the world's first personal computer'. In 1973 APL was generally available only on mainframe computers, and most desktop sized microcomputers such as the Wang 2200 or HP 9800 offered only BASIC.
SCAMP emulated an IBM 1130 minicomputer to run APL1130. Paul Friedl at the IBM Los Gatos Scientific Center developed a portable computer prototype called SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable) based on the IBM PALM processor with a Philips compact cassette drive, small CRT, and full-function keyboard.
Desktop sized programmable calculators by HP had evolved into the HP 9830BASIC language computer by 1972.
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