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BeBox Dead

BeBox
KindMachine
Introduced1995
Discontinued1997
StatusDead
ManufacturerBe Inc.
ClassWorkstation
PlatformDual PowerPC 603
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The machine Be Inc. built to sell its OS — dual PPCs, geek port, blinkenlights. When BeOS went x86 the box died; the OS followed it into legend.

Created by Be Inc.
Hosted BeOS

Be's dual-603e BeBox (October 1995) existed to host BeOS — two PPCs, the GeekPort GPIO header, and the famous dual-CPU blinkenlights. ~1,800 sold.

When Apple passed on BeOS for NeXT, Be ported to x86 and discontinued the hardware (1997); the BeBox became a collector's icon — the machine an OS company built because no one else would.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox