Stuart Henderson: > not available new from the > manufacturer, but I see various > machines and boards (used and unused) > on ebay at fairly reasonable prices.
We're lucky to have the second-hand market, a new device becomes second-hand anyway the second you get it. APU3 becomes 30 year old Mercedes S-klasse real quality. > mSATA storage is a bit harder to find > now than it was but possible, there's > also https://github.com/florolf/apu-m2 Like the net5501, the APU3 also accepts one 2.5” SATA SSD. Christian Weisgerber: > IIRC, the problem wasn't the sales > side but the supply side: > The CPU vendors can't be bothered to > deal with such small companies. > > Soekris's death blow was the Intel > hardware failure that caused _all_ > net6501s to die sooner or later. Thank you, I did not know this. It's so crazy a tiny company failing on one bad bet. My net5501 is still chugging along, 100M Ethernet vr(4) and sis(4) is still good in 2025! Kudos to OpenBSD still keeping i386. R
