Info about Alpha Micro 1021, HP terminal, 8" floppy - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Nov 1999

Don't know about the 1021, but I've got an Alpha Micro 1042E.  Got it from
an automotive parts business that used it for inventory and order desk: it's
got a raft of RS-232 ports on the back to timeshare an office full of
terminals.  The 1042E is an S-100 box (but BIG enough to hold its 8"
Winchester) with a 68K cpu card and an unusual tape backup interface card
(it uses a modified videocassette recorder).  So I suspect it would be worth
digging inside to see if the 1021 is likewise S-100.

The operating system is AMOS which is somewhat like DEC's RT-11.

I don't have any documentation.  I can't figure out how to get code into it:
it has no floppy drive.  Maybe Alpha Micro distributed everything on
videotape (charging extra for New Releases or Oscar winners?).

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  -----Original Message-----
 From:	McFadden, Mike [SMTP:mmcfadden@cmh.edu]
 Sent:	Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:17 AM
 To:	Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
 Subject:	Info about Alpha Micro 1021, HP terminal, 8" floppy

 Any info on these mature computer components?

 I was looking in a stack of  pallet sized boxes at the local computer
 surplus and I came across a Alpha Micro 1021 computer.  It appears to be
 about 2' by 2' by 1.5' with a series of DB25 connectors on the back. I
 couldn't move the top box to gain access to the lower box. I couldn't see
 much more than the exterior.  
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