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Scamp

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7429872
Source-derived summary

Scamp may refer to:

Computers and engineering

National Semiconductor SC/MP (pronounced Scamp), an early 8 bit microprocessor

Single-Channel Antijam Man-Portable Terminal, part of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system

Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor, a single-chip implementation of the Burroughs large systems computer architecture

Special Computer APL Machine Portable, a prototype name for a single-user, portable computer concept made by IBM Research in 1973

Military

SS Sea Scamp, a 1943 Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport in World War II

SS-14 Scamp, the NATO reporting name for the RT-15 theatre ballistic missile of the Soviet Union

USS Scamp, several ships

USS Scamp (SS-277), a Gato class submarine (1942–1945)

USS Scamp (SSN-588), a Skipjack class submarine (1961–1988)

Transportation

Aerosport Scamp, a small biplane designed for home building

Clark Scamp, a simple, bicycle-based moped

Honda Scamp, a.k.a.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Scamp” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Scamp, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1943, 1942, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Scamp, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7429872. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1943, 1942 and 1945.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Scamp” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.