I've got a dual 133 MHz BeBox I'm working on fixing up. I bought it from a local guy, it had been bricked some time in the 90's by a bad firmware update. Another BeBox owner on #vc IRC got me the flash rescue floppy for BeOS PR1, and that's gotten it as far as being able to actually boot the NetBSD 8 installer. Apparently the floppy rescue is often unreliable though, I don't get the Be logo on startup, and BeOS doesn't want to finish booting. It is indeed very interesting hardware, with an interesting OS to go with it. Growing up, a friend of mine had one -- his dad worked for TWA as a programmer and had convinced them to get him a 66 MHz BeBox. When the 133 MHz version came along, my friend got the old 66 MHz one. Thanks, Jonathan On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:10 PM Glenn Holmer via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

On 1/17/19 10:43 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

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For those not familiar, Be was a company launched by Jean Louis Gassie (spelling) of Apple. He I believe was the guy behind Apple's 55% profit margin (Source the Jim Carrolton book.)

Be was pretty good multimedia wise, good multitasking, was not decaying in that it was cleanly designed that updates and upgrades never harmed the root OS files I believe. It existed for the BeBox which was a dual PPC machine, Mac and PC hardware.

And it lives on in Haiku!

https://www.haiku-os.org/

-- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."