Monitor and Keyboard for an Alpha AM100 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Data Terminals Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This object number covers the monitor and attached keyboard by Data Terminals Corporation used with an Alpha AM100 microcomputer.It has serial number 7015308. Introduced in 1977 by Alpha Micro Systems, the Alpha Micro 100 was an ambitious attempt to break out of the Intel 8080 mold of the late 1970s and to offer a true multi-user, multi-tasking microcomputer based on S-100 bus technology. The machine was expensive, and was targeted for sale to commercial firms or successful professionals. Ultimately, the entire (and quite extensive) commercial sector that was based on the S-100 bus machines (and the CP/M operating) collapsed in the face of the competition from the IBM PC and Microsoft's DOS
label: Description
content: The Alpha AM 100 contained a WD1600 processor that ran at 2 MHz. It used Alpha Micro Operating System (AMOS).
label: Description
content: The Alpha AM 100 represents the early attempt by the industry to move beyond the limited 8-bit technology of commercial use. From this arose a class of expensive and higher performance machines based on the S-100 bus and CP/M operating systems. The Alpha Micro 100 was the first proper multi-user microcomputer available and was first available in kit form.
label: Description
content: For the microcomputer, see 1998.0634.01. For other parts, see 1998.0234.03 and 1998.0234.04. For documentation see 1998.3072.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Larry Fransler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0234.02
label: accession number
content: 1998.0234
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0234.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: monitor: 33.2 cm x 40.4 cm x 40 cm; 13 1/16 in x 15 7/8 in x 15 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: keyboard: 7.5 cm x 45 cm x 21.5 cm; 2 15/16 in x 17 11/16 in x 8 7/16 in