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Ross Sponholtz
Dec 21, 2015, 10:39:10 PM12/21/15
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I recently picked up an Alpha Micro AM-1200 and I wanted to reach out to see if anyone had some hints In getting it up and running.
The first computer I used was an Alpha Micro at my highschool computing lab - probably an AM-100 as I graduated in '83. They had several terminals and a couple of teletype machines hooked to it, and a huge removable platter disk drive. After learning BASIC, as an extra credit project my teacher suggested I learn about Alpha Micro Pascal and then teach it to him. Well that was about 30 years ago!
Anyway, my machine does have a hard drive but doesn't boot. I did the self test process, and It's flashing 91/11 for a while, but then goes on to get stuck at 96, and I can't find any info on that. Does anyone have a service or owners manual for an AM-1200?
I was wondering how I'd get AMOS onto it since I don't have any distribution media, and the machine doesn't have a floppy! I've read that the standard SASI disk is somewhat of a precursor to the SCSI disk interface - it would be cool if I could hook up a SCSI to IDE or SATA adapter and use modern media. Do you have any suggestions here? Would it be possible to get an AMOS video tape backup somewhere and restore that on my machine?
I've tried to reach out to the alphamicro.com folks hoping to get AMOS from them, but haven't gotten a response - do you know if there is anyone or anywhere I can get an OS distribution from? Can anyone give me a disk, cd or backup file?
Thanks for your help!
Ross
The first computer I used was an Alpha Micro at my highschool computing lab - probably an AM-100 as I graduated in '83. They had several terminals and a couple of teletype machines hooked to it, and a huge removable platter disk drive. After learning BASIC, as an extra credit project my teacher suggested I learn about Alpha Micro Pascal and then teach it to him. Well that was about 30 years ago!
Anyway, my machine does have a hard drive but doesn't boot. I did the self test process, and It's flashing 91/11 for a while, but then goes on to get stuck at 96, and I can't find any info on that. Does anyone have a service or owners manual for an AM-1200?
I was wondering how I'd get AMOS onto it since I don't have any distribution media, and the machine doesn't have a floppy! I've read that the standard SASI disk is somewhat of a precursor to the SCSI disk interface - it would be cool if I could hook up a SCSI to IDE or SATA adapter and use modern media. Do you have any suggestions here? Would it be possible to get an AMOS video tape backup somewhere and restore that on my machine?
I've tried to reach out to the alphamicro.com folks hoping to get AMOS from them, but haven't gotten a response - do you know if there is anyone or anywhere I can get an OS distribution from? Can anyone give me a disk, cd or backup file?
Thanks for your help!
Ross
rjle...@gmail.com
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