Alpha Micro AM-1000E and AM-1200

The author's Eagle 300 server suffered a board fault, prompting a temporary switch to a ColdFire-based Eagle 450. The article introduces two vintage Alpha Micro systems—a 1982 AM-1000E and a 1987 AM-1200XP—that need refurbishment to determine if they can boot into AMOS or must be sent to storage. It also provides historical context on Alpha Micro's origins, tracing back to Dick Wilcox's PDP-11 real-time OS work and Alvin Phillips' founding of General Digital.