Old stuff survey

[MauryG5]

Welcome and congratulations on the many Power-based machines!

[ClassicHasClass]

Martin's here! Now the party can start!

[Borley]

I once had a single core POWER laptop (Powerbook G-something) as a hand me down. It sucked, and Debian Jessie dropped support for the architecture part way through my ownership of the device. No loss though as I'm not much of a laptop guy.

[MPC7500]

Debian (sid) is still available for big-endian systems.

[Borley]

Debian (sid) is still available for big-endian systems.

Thanks but I've since discarded the device. It really was barely powerful enough to use for anything beyond novelty.

[ClassicHasClass]

Haven't picked up anything new, but I have been testing things as I move them into storage, and my beloved "SR-7100" (Power Mac 7100/66AV with a 400MHz Sonnet G3, max RAM and HPV card) still works just great. That was a nice find.

[lepidotos]

Basically just an Xbox 360 and my childhood Gamecube and Wii. I used to have a PS3 but it got sold off at some point. Would love to get an RS/6000 at some point to play with... or a Thinkpad PS.
Apparently at the offices someone I know works at, they have Freescale-based PowerPC desktops for... something.
Now for the fructiferous power:
2x Power Macintosh (one Sawtooth, one Mystic, both G4s @450), 2x iBook (one G3/900, one G4/1.42), 1x iMac (G5, 1.6GHz).

[ClassicHasClass]

Were they actually Freescale-branded??

[lepidotos]

Yeah, sticker on the front of the case and all.

[ClassicHasClass]

Interesting. Do you know the CPU, or even the model number? I know about the Motorola-branded desktops and servers, but didn't know Freescale branded any.

[MPC7500]

I'm only aware of RDBs. Something like the QorIQ T2080 Reference Development Board.

[MPC7500]

This is really nice. It's from IBM, Zurich: 32x NXP QorIQ T4240

[lepidotos]

Interesting. Do you know the CPU, or even the model number? I know about the Motorola-branded desktops and servers, but didn't know Freescale branded any.

Unfortunately, no. I'm not aware of any of the details, besides that they were (there were a handful of them) seeming full ATX or Micro ATX midtower using midtower cases, with optical drives in front.

[ClassicHasClass]

Maybe a Sandpoint system?

[mparnaudeau]

@lepidotos I am really curious about these Freescale-based PowerPC desktops ... if there is no secret there, could you get information and tell more about them?