These aren't as rare as you would think. I've passed up at least four in
the last couple of years.
Peace... Sridhar
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Louis Florit wrote:
> Hi everyone, I've got a rare, almost borderline classic-cmp system that
> is very interesting up for auction on ebay. I'm hoping a gentle soul
> will take it in and give it some play time.
>
> Pictures of the boombox stereo looking system:
> http://www.hudat.com/~florit/20030624-MotorolaPowerstack/
>
> Getting to the mid-90s there was a lot of evolution in processor designs
> taking place; there was a question as to which company would lead the
> way into the future; some big players at the time were MIPS, Digital's
> Alpha, The IBM/Motorola/Apple consortium led PowerPC, and of course,
> Intel's x86 line. There was plenty of doubt at the time, because
> Microsoft, who was just then putting out Windows NT 4, supported all of
> these processors! We all know how the face off ended up.
>
> The system I have here is a Motorola Powerstack. It is super rare, I've
> only seen one other on ebay in 3 years. Its in great shape. I can run
> a myriad of operating systems: IBM's AIX, WinNT 4, Linux PPC and
> aparently a beta version of Solaris 2.5 for PowerPCs. As I understand,
> this system runs the PReP Openfirmware (replaces functions of PC's Bios
> is a more clean manner).
Received on Mon Jul 21 2003 - 22:34:00 BST