Alpha AM100 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Tei Inc.
label: maker
content: Alpha Microsystems
notes: label: Description
content: The Alpha AM100 represents an attempt to improve on the Altair 8800 and IMSAI microcomputers using an S-100 bus, the CP/M operating system, a 16-bit CPU, and special support chips. It was quite expensive - this example was used by a software systems developer. Some were used by several people symultaneously. Successor machines include those of Dynabyte and Cromemco, with the IBM PC and Microsoft's DOS displacing it entirely. The object has a beige case with a power cord. It has a bag of spare parts and eight internal boards.
label: Description
content: This example was used by a Colorado software systems engineer, Larry W. Fansler.
label: Description
content: For related objects, see the monitor and keyboard by Data Terminals Corporation (1998.0234.02), the disk drive by Industrial Micro Systems (1998.0234.03), and the NEC Spinwriter printer (1998.0234.04). For documentation, see 1998.3072.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Larry Fansler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0234.01
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0234.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0234
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.75 cm x 43.3 cm x 48.5 cm; 4 7/32 in x 17 1/16 in x 19 3/32 in