Not super S100 focused but, in the early 80s, I used an Alpha Microsystems S100 multi-user system with a WD16 processor. Later, the company I worked for, a video production company, upgraded to the 68000 based Alpha Micro. The whole company ran on that thing, accounting, writing and I even wrote a small program allowing it to control a Chyron Scribe video character generator in the edit suite.
I remember liking the system very much but admit that I didn't have much with which to compare it. I thought their OS, AMOS and AMOS/L, was great.
Someone I know who knew Bill Gates fairly well at that time told me that Alpha Microsystems was a company that truly scared Gates.
In 1986, I met Dick Wilcox, one of the Alpha Microsystem founders as he was buying a Pitts S2B at the Auburn, WA airport.
That was almost 20 years ago now, I don't know how much of their business actually survives. They have a website live still, but it seems quite non-functional: http://www.alphamicro.com/
I spent many hours coding purchasing and inventory systems for our company in the late 80's on our AM-100/L.
I tried to get it working again just for fun in the early 2000's but it had some hardware issue and Alpha Micro was less than enthusiastically interested in helping me with technical information. Ah well.
It's still sitting in a storage room to this day. Probably hopelessly defunct, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it.
I remember liking the system very much but admit that I didn't have much with which to compare it. I thought their OS, AMOS and AMOS/L, was great.
Someone I know who knew Bill Gates fairly well at that time told me that Alpha Microsystems was a company that truly scared Gates.
In 1986, I met Dick Wilcox, one of the Alpha Microsystem founders as he was buying a Pitts S2B at the Auburn, WA airport.