Jump to: Official Resources | User Groups and SIGs | Other General Sites | Software Vendors | Hardware Vendors and VARs
The official Alpha Microsystems home page. Enquire here for AMOS support, buying the AlphaCD distribution for updates (around $230, last I checked), or asking for a hardware VAR recommendation.
For questions specific to AMOS, ask on the AMOS Inquiry Form.
Sales and services in Belgium, with a smattering of data sheets for review.
A web-based bulletin board for users and support staff. Lightly trafficked but still a good place to start for support questions.
A massive collection of product announcements, data sheets, hardware and product manuals and even some third-party support stuff. Worth mining even if you have an old unsupported system as there are quite a few legacy items mixed in, and even a fair bit of the new hardware and software documentation is still broadly applicable.
AMUS at one time was one of the biggest, most important user support groups for AM owners. Consultant and president Jeff Kreider informs me that he is considering options for resurrection. For now, if you are a former member, your login will still get access to the downloadable items available.
It's Wikipedia. What's not to love, vandalize and shower with donations?
This is not only a very useful and interesting emulator, but Mike also helpfully offers AM-100 AMOS ready to go and a nice stack of documentation files. VAM is in fact the only Alpha Micro-approved emulator available.
Old-Computers.com usually manages to come up with something on just about anything.
Eric has some notes on a couple models.
I am a regular exhibitor at the Bay Area Vintage Computer Festival, and a couple of years an AM-1000 turned up with two terminals to play with, owned by Bob Fowler.
Maintained by old AM luminary Rod Hewitt, COOL.STF has a selection of small freeware tools plus their flagship commercial product ZTERM, which emulates an Alpha Micro terminal on Windows -- even Windows CE! (It will also run under WINE.)
Among other commercial offerings, MicroSabio offers the inventive A-Shell package which acts like an AMOS simulator: a collection of standard commands, VUE, even the dot prompt, and a full implementation of the AlphaBASIC compiler and runtime. This means you can take your legacy software with you to a modern operating system without rewriting it from scratch. A-Shell runs on Windows, AIX and Linux/x86 (with packages for Red Hat and CentOS).
VPSi offers their commercial VersiCOMM-Plus AMOS serial communications package to use your AMOS system as a terminal itself, and Z/Archive, a commercial archiving and compression utility that generates self-extracting archives.
U.A. Systems offers a variety of commercial connectivity products, including terminal emulations, and their commercial AlphaDOC system for medical office management.
Starr offers commercial AMOS and Java-based professional multi-user accounting software systems.
BDS is now the parent company for Alpha Micro ... so of course they sell Alpha Micro boxes! BDS offers nationwide on-site service, consulting, and hardware and software sales.
The same Jeff Kreider at AMUS (above), JNE offers hardware and software upgrades, contract programming and technical support from their offices in Hesperia, CA.
Based in New York, Island offers turn-key hardware and integrated software solutions for retail and clinical veterinary applications, along with wholesale distribution, payroll and real estate packages.
Based in the Los Angeles area, Val-Mac is an AM VAR also specializing in vertical market software development and integration, founded in 1981.
UBCS is a Canadian AM VAR offering custom software development, hardware sales and support, installation, data transfer and training.
Jim-Barry Behar, Inc. is an AM VAR in the North Miami Beach, FL region offering AMOS legacy support among other business hardware.