Motorola Mainframe????

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com>
Date: Wed Feb 13 13:55:12 2002

Thanks for the info... hey if anyone out there has one for sale/trade,
please let me know, thanks.


Curt


----- Original Message -----
From: "r. 'bear' stricklin" <red_at_bears.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Motorola Mainframe????


> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Curt Vendel wrote:
>
> > I saw one of these last year, I was I had bought it, kinda look like a
stack
> > of Micopolis HD cases in dark grey.
> >
> > Anyone know anything about those units??? History, OS, h/w and such.
>
> Not a mainframe. I don't know too much, but it was a modular workstation
> based around the PPC 603. I believe it was implemented as a reference
> platform of some sort (PReP, maybe). It would've run Windows NT or
> Solaris, or perhaps a custom flavor of Unix, and was the most visually
> striking of the Motorola workstation hardware of the time.
>
> This is what I remember from having seen one about six years ago, and
> should be taken as apocryphal, or at least anecdotal.
>
> ok
> r.
>
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