Is this about the expense or the transport? Has anybody reached out to him officially on behalf of VCF? I think "we're a nonprofit dedicated to... _mission_ that doesn't have a BeBox, and this would be a key part of our collection. It would be very appreciated."  Is a compelling point to make for someone who clearly cares about his collection.  I don't go down there often, but my sister lives in the Baltimore area if I'm ever there when something comes up I might be able to ferry things back up to NJ at least half way. Man, do I really want a 4000 one of these days.. especially a 4000T eventually..  this collection is... :O --MS On Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 10:09:39 PM EST, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Someone please get it for us!! We don't have one. :( On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:08 PM Christian Liendo <cliendo@gmail.com wrote:

That guy has a BeBox.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 5:06 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

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I saw this on Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/208724552490319?view=permalink&id=273220578347...

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. The BeBox was pretty unique in that it had a really cool set of IO ports including midi in/out, RCA audio in/out, a 37 pin D-Sub geek port that provided DIO and fused DC power for building random projects. I think it had 4 RS232 and parallel port. Pretty stacked IO wise out of the box. It was a dual PPC 66mhz or 133mhz motherboard, and it might be mostly AT sized but the unobtanium IO sub-board plugs into the main board via a PCI like connector and screws directly into the back of the box. Apple evaluated Be and NeXTStep as the replacement for OS 9 and chose NeXTStep which became OS X. I think BeOS might of been the first platform where the music DJ tools first showed up where the DJ uses a vinyl record that has a time encoding and the computer follows along super accurately, chasing the vinyl record playing a digital audio file. That is how a lot of the DJs do it now, laptop has music but still use physical turntables as the control surface. There were some demos that were amazing in it's early days but it mostly faded. A friend bought a 133mhz and was given a 66mhz, then gave me the 66mhz. I think when Be did upgrades from 66 to 133 machines, they had the end user move the IO board and plastics over, thus the shortage. The front case doesn't look as cool as a SGI, but it does have two LED bar graph things that go all the way up the front that indicate the CPU load of the two processors.

I wonder if this is the same one I gave away a few years ago.

-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:09 PM To: Christian Liendo Cc: Evan Koblentz; vcf-midatlantic Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] NeXT(s) f/s in Maryland

Someone please get it for us!! We don't have one. :(

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:08 PM Christian Liendo <cliendo@gmail.com wrote:

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That guy has a BeBox.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 5:06 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

...

I saw this on Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/208724552490319?view=permalink&id=273220578347...

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I'd kill for the TT030

Oh I have one. They're odd. I have an incomplete BeBox as well. Need the front plastic part and the IO card.