At 07:29 PM 6/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
>::>I know my memory's been failing, but I do believe I read about Alpha Micro
>::>back in '77. Was there another model before the AM100?
>::
>::No, the AM-100 was their initial product. There were a number of models
>::that followed, and in fact AlphaMicro is still in business today.
>
>The Salvation Army used them, and may still use them now. AMOS was a very
>irritating OS sometimes, especially with that [x,y] method of accessing
>partitions and files. AMOS BASIC was also a pain in the butt. The ones I
>used were 68K systems.
It was also used by Brunswick (the Bowling people) as the back-end core of
their "Brunswick 2000" automatic scoring system. They even used the
VCR-Data backup unit.
-jim
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