| Information: | The Scientific Computer and Modular Processor (SCAMP) was developed during 1961 and 1962. It was Hursley Labs first processor project.
One of the features of SCAMP was the read-only storage wheel, a permanent storage device used to store the microcode instructions used by the system.
The SCAMP wheel had a capacity of 1023 words of 64 bits, and the access time was approximately half a microsecond. The components were arranged in a wheel with 64 ferrite-core transformers mounted on the periphery, each transformer acting as a one-bit storage device. A 32×32 diode decoding matrix was used to select the required words from the storage wheel. |