From shop haul No PowerSupply or outer case.

The Motorola StarMax 4000 captures a strange but important moment in Apple history: the brief mid-1990s era when Apple officially licensed Macintosh clones to outside manufacturers. As Motorola’s higher-end StarMax model, it showed how clone makers could offer Mac-compatible systems with more standard PC-style features and aggressive pricing, but it also became part of the experiment Steve Jobs shut down in 1997 when Apple ended the clone program.

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