Motorola Powerstack E PowerPC

Hi everyone, I've got a rare, almost borderline classic-cmp system that I found 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). Its called a PowerStack because you can add drive chassis by stacking them on top and adding power and scsi chain cables. In effect, you can make this a low profile computer by removing the section that contains the dat drive, currently. Motorola PowerPC 603e, 100mhz, 64MB ram. SCSI is onboard SCSI-2, with two one inch high removable media device bays, one one inch high non-removable bay for disk, and the scsi expansion enclosure. This particular model is loaded with a thin profile CDROM, floppy drive, 4 gig harddrive, and DAT tape drive (unknown size; 1 or 2g?). It has all kinds of interesting ports on the backside. Video is on a PCI card (Cirrus Logic?), and audio is onboard. There are three PCI slots on a riser board. This system is in distinguished company: It has an actual removable key to start and stop the system. I'm including the system manual, very useful to find out how to assemble/dissasemble the system to get to the insides. Included are the cables to connect the expansion bay scsi. I will also ship the original copy of Sun Solaris 2.5 Beta that was inside the Powerstack when I got it and the CDs with the debian linux ppc I was planning to install. I did not complete the install of debian linux, so it does not boot into the OS; there are some configuration issues to work out- I'd recommend a fresher and newer version of Debian anyhow, as this one is at least 3 years old. Here's the auction link, if you think you're interested: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2742423893&categ… If you have any questions, please ask away.