ORANGE COUNTY EARNINGS : Alpha Microsystems Posts $29,000 Profit for 1st Fiscal Quarter

Alpha Microsystems, the Santa Ana computer hardware and software company posted a profit of $29,000, or 1 cent a share, for its latest quarter.

The figure, which includes a tax benefit of $58,000, contrasts with a loss of $1.3 million, or 44 cents a share, for the same period a year earlier. Revenue for the company’s first fiscal quarter, which ended May 30, declined 19%, to $9.5 million from $11.8 million.

The company attributed the drop to the continuing decrease in hardware revenue in the United States and the elimination of the company’s Italian and French subsidiaries in the second quarter of the previous year.