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).