10 May
1999
10 May
'99
1:36 p.m.
Is anyone out there familar with the Motorola Power PCs? I spotted
several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC 604
and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and what kind
OS they run?
Joe
10 May
10 May
12:54 p.m.
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5:38 p.m.
At 02:54 PM 5/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
Hmmm. I don't think it's a Mac clone. The two that are working are
running Windows NT. Version 3.51 I believe. BTW how the hell do you find
out anything about the system such as the hard drive size using NT??? FWIW
they have 32 Mb of RAM and are using a SCSI-II bus.
Is anyone out
there familar with the Motorola Power PCs? I spotted
several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC 604
and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and what kind
OS they run?
This was one of their Macintosh clones, it would be a decent enough system,
and is upgradable to a G3 processor. Not sure how well current/future
versions of MacOS will support it.
Not sure about the DataServer 4000 though, I suppose these things might also
run AIX, but that and Linux would be about the only other OS's supported.
OK thanks.
Joe
5:45 p.m.
At 02:54 PM 5/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
Hmmm. I don't think it's a Mac clone. The two that are working are
running Windows NT. Version 3.51 I believe. BTW how the hell do you find
out anything about the system such as the hard drive size using NT??? FWIW
they have 32 Mb of RAM and are using a SCSI-II bus.
HUH? Wow, they're a bit of an oddity then. I know the StarMax 4000/160
and 4000/200's are listed as being MacOS clones. I suppose it's possible
they'll run either, but it is more likely it's at least a change out of the
ROM's. I've never even seen a PPC running NT (did know there was a port,
but wasn't support dropped after 3.51?).
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Is anyone
out there familar with the Motorola Power PCs? I spotted
several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC 604
and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and what kind
OS they run?
This was one of their Macintosh clones, it would be a decent enough system,
and is upgradable to a G3 processor. Not sure how well current/future
versions of MacOS will support it. 
5:08 p.m.
At 02:54 PM
5/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
Hmmm. I don't think it's a Mac clone. The two that are working are
running Windows NT. Version 3.51 I believe. BTW how the hell do you
find out anything about the system such as the hard drive size using
NT??? FWIW they have 32 Mb of RAM and are using a SCSI-II bus.
HUH? Wow, they're a bit of an oddity then. I know the StarMax 4000/160
and 4000/200's are listed as being MacOS clones. I suppose it's possible
they'll run either, but it is more likely it's at least a change out of
the ROM's. I've never even seen a PPC running NT (did know there was a
port, but wasn't support dropped after 3.51?). Is anyone
out there familar with the Motorola Power PCs? I spotted
several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC
604 and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and
what kind OS they run?
This was one of their Macintosh clones, it would be a decent enough
system, and is upgradable to a G3 processor. Not sure how well
current/future versions of MacOS will support it.
11 May
11 May
4:07 a.m.
At 09:08 PM 5/10/99 -0500, George wrote:
Yes NT4.0 does support the PPC. Can't remember if
NT5 is
supposed to. I vaguely remember that it was, but my memories
been slipping lately ...
I have a Motorola PPC (604/100) machine designed specifically to
run NT, it's a CHRP/PREP/WATEVR machine that was supposed
to, eventually, be able to run either NT or MacOS. It's in quite a
sad state right now (I'm not even sure exactly where it is right now).
I also have another PPC machine (again 604/100) made by a
company called FirePower that was formed by a bunch of old NeXT
guys (the ones that were working on the multiprocessor 88100
NeXT box :( ) and eventually bought by Motorola. I currently have it
running NT4.0 and SQLServer 6.5, both native. Cool little box,
uses OpenFirmware (as does the other Mot).
That sounds like it might be what we have. It's in a Motorola box.
What is OpenFirmware? I've never heard of it. They are 604/100s.
Perhaps the DataServer machine is such a CHRP/PREP beastie?
You can run the disk administrator application (in the administrative
tools folder) to find out about the drives.
I didn't see an administrative tools folder.
Joe
7:50 a.m.
Yes NT4.0 does
support the PPC. Can't remember if NT5 is
supposed to. I vaguely remember that it was, but my memories
been slipping lately ...
I have a Motorola PPC (604/100) machine designed specifically to
run NT, it's a CHRP/PREP/WATEVR machine that was supposed
to, eventually, be able to run either NT or MacOS. It's in quite a sad
state right now (I'm not even sure exactly where it is right now).
I also have another PPC machine (again 604/100) made by a
company called FirePower that was formed by a bunch of old NeXT
guys (the ones that were working on the multiprocessor 88100
NeXT box :( ) and eventually bought by Motorola. I currently have it
running NT4.0 and SQLServer 6.5, both native. Cool little box, uses
OpenFirmware (as does the other Mot).
That sounds like it might be what we have. It's in a Motorola box.
What is OpenFirmware? I've never heard of it. They are 604/100s.
Perhaps the DataServer machine is such a CHRP/PREP beastie?
You can run the disk administrator application (in the administrative
tools folder) to find out about the drives.
I didn't see an administrative tools folder. 
10 May
10 May
1:32 p.m.
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4:15 p.m.
On 10 May 99 at 15:32, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
::Is anyone out there familar with the Motorola Power
PCs? I spotted
::several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC 604
::and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and what kind
::OS they run?
I have an Apple Network Server 500 sitting kitty-corner to me. It's a 604e
running AIX.
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10 May
10 May
3:04 p.m.
Is anyone out there familar with the Motorola Power
PCs? I spotted
several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC 604
and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and what kind
OS they run?
Just ordinary Mac clones - can / should Run Mac OS, althrough
not powerful anymore (but depending on the exact board used
possibly updatable to higher frequencies and/or newer CPUs
(G3)). There is also a Linux for the PPC systems and some
can run AIX.
Gruss
H.
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11 May
11 May
12:59 a.m.
Is anyone out there familar with the Motorola Power
PCs? I spotted
several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC 604
and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and what kind
OS they run?
The Starmax is the Motorola clone of the Mac, they run Mac OS up to 8.5.1,
and can be upgraded to G3. Very nice systems, I have (2). They are worth,
between $250 and $500 depending on details as usual, but due to being
different sometimes go for $25 when people are clueless. Try to get the
purchase paperwork if at all possible, as the warranty is to the first
purchaser only, but then its 5 years. Many units with problems are refurbs
with 90 days (long expired).
If they are cheap enough I would be interested in a couple more just for parts.
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