Alaska / Alaska Artic Power servers (Mexmal Mayorista, Dinastía International)

"Alaska" was a computer brand sold in Mexico in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Its server line was called "Alaska Artic Power." The brand belonged to Mexmal Mayorista S.A. de C.V. and Dinastía International Corp., a computer distribution group based on the Laredo, Texas and Monterrey, Nuevo León border, founded around 1990 by Patrick Wong and Alfredo Flores. The Alaska Artic Power 2U rackmount server is a rebadged Chenbro RM21200 chassis.

A narrative write-up of this material is at serialport.org/blog/the-alaska-server. The same files are also available as a repository at gitlab.serialport.org/hardware/alaska-server.

Index terms: Alaska server, Alaska Artic Power, Alaska Artic Power 2U, Mexmal, Mexmal Mayorista, Dinastía International, Chenbro RM21200, ALASKA drive sleds.

Contents of this directory

research.html: the identification, the Alaska brand, the server models, the company, the collapse, and the litigation. Source text: RESEARCH.md.
sources.html: an index of the primary sources and recovered materials in this archive. Source text: SOURCES.md.
images/: recovered Alaska, Mexmal, and Dinastía imagery, including the Alaska Artic Power server photographs, brand logos, the Dinastía superstore, and product photographs.
court-documents/: the two United States federal court opinions from the Mexmal / Dinastía litigation.
newspapers/: Laredo Morning Times clippings, 1997 to 2003.
intel-chenbro/: Chenbro RM21200 product pages and datasheets, and the Mexmal / Intel "Servidores Alaska" training deck.
trade-press/: Mexican IT trade press articles.

Related materials on this server

Intel SCB2 / Chenbro RM21200 compatibility sheet Chenbro documentation