10 Jan
2004
10 Jan
'04
10:55 a.m.
At 09:49 AM 1/10/04 +0100, you wrote:
That was the impression that I got but I couldn't find anything
definite. I opened the 2nd box (the one with the slightly rounded top. The
metal RF shield inside has the cutout of the card access slot and the card
is in place too. The only difference seems to be the plastic shell. The
funny thing is that the box with the accessible expansion slot has a hard
drive in it but the one without the expansion slot doesn't! No, it doesn't
appear that the drive was removed.
Anybody have any suggestions for a particularly suitable use for them?
Apparently they'll run Linux, AIX or Windows NT.
Joe
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:46:08 -0500
Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
Both of these are E series machines with the PPC 604/166 CPUs in the
grey desktop boxs. Model number EX-604E-166.
I picked up two of these yesterday. I searched
the net but didn't
find
much information about them but I did find enough so that I know what
they are.
There are many different variants of "PowerStack" boxen. I have
a
"PowerStack I" and a "PowerStack II". They are PeeCeeish looking
minitowers. There is a PReP architecture PCI/ISA mainboard with PPC604
inside. However one of the ones that I have doesn't
have the rounded top.
Instead the top is flat and it has a rectangular opening in it and a
circuit board sticking up into the opening. It looks like it was made
for an expansion chassis to mate with. Anybody know more about that?
Seems you have
one of the older VME based machines. Well, as the name
Power_Stack_ implies, you can stack an expansion chassis on top. --
tsch??,
Jochen
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