looking for Motorola PowerStack manuals, info, Any model

[g-wright at att.net]

 The  systems I have where  used for software  development  mostly.
Since  NT was to run on a many  different processors, a lot of software
companies had to test there software on all system.  I would believe
 quit a lot of money was spent trying to cover all of the  Processors
and systems. One of mine has a "X86 on RISC engine"  with   many 
software tools.  These are the PC looking Mini tower and  low profile
desk tops.  133 mhz.   Theses where quit fast in the time.  (12 years ago).
The later systems where mainly use for Severs. Look like a "Bose Radio"
but taller.


One thing to watch for is the boot screen. this may not be setup  right..
These have a lot of  setup options.  I finally  just install another drive, 
made a 10 meg FAT partition from the startup menu and loaded NT4.0.
It loads very quickly, makes the NT partition,   looks just like a PC install. 

 When it finished I could  see what the bios setting where and then reinstalled 
the original drive . Make any needed partition changes and away it went..

I installed the original  drive on a Intel NT box  (second drive) and backed up
the drive first.  Theses have both a FAT and NT  partitions. It uses
the FAT partition  to get it going.  It can also have other OS partitions also. 
The boot screen has a lot of options that have to be right in order for it to boot.
 Mine had lost  there configuration info so it defaulted to bad settings. These will
boot from a NT  Cdrom,. install NT , Load the  "FAT"  partition with the 
needed   boot files. When finished it reloads the  boot menu  system Cmos with
 the needed path statements.  I used a password tool on the Intel box to 
change the administator Passwd on the Motorola drive.

So If you got a drive with it ??? look at the drive first, best on another
machine, to see if anything is on it.  Your not going to find much for these
any longer.  So make the best  of what you have.   The FDOS  program
which is in ROM,  wont help any if  the boot partition info is bad.   This gives
you many of the MS-Dos  type commands to access and or copy files
with out booting the system

 If not then re-load NT,  AIX or  some other unix variant

- Jerry
 -------------- Original message from Michael Lee <mikelee at tdh.com>: --------------


> So, been reading the thread on the PowerStack and not sure what the 
> different models are.  I recently acquired a couple of the "Motorola 
> PowerStack which supposedly runs a flavor of NT and AIX.  The only 
> information I found was they are PPC604 (or around there) models.  What 
> is the 88k?
> 
> How uncommon are these systems?  The ones I got were from an ex-Motorola 
> employee who "rescued" them years ago from the HQ.  The only information 
> I have is what he has shared with me, as there is very little 
> information online.  They aren't that old, and debatable vintage at this 
> point, but was interesting enough to add to the collection.  Are there 
> any online resources for these?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> g-wright at att.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I have been looking for a long time and it seems these are
> > not easy to find ???
> >
> > - Jerry 
> >
> > Jerry Wright
> > JLC inc
> > g-wright at att.net
> >
> >
> >
> >