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Title: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: McVenco on April 24, 2007, 03:29:19 PM

Not really Amiga or -related, but I thought it's worth mentioning:

BeBox on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-BeBox-Dual-133-PPC-Computer-with-all-the-bits_W0QQitemZ200100226908QQihZ010QQcategoryZ140076QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: TheMagicM on April 24, 2007, 03:30:09 PM

wow.. now that was a system ahead of its time.

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: McVenco on April 24, 2007, 03:37:32 PM

WAY ahead. I remember reading about this in a dutch Amiga magazine and I totally wanted one. Too bad I didn't have any money at all back then :-(

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: kd7ota on April 24, 2007, 04:12:54 PM

"Hard Drive Capacity: 324 GB"

 :-)

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: 23703jim on April 24, 2007, 04:18:00 PM

what operating system does it use? and what make it an "unusual machine" thanks :-?

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: CannonFodder on April 24, 2007, 04:22:29 PM

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23703jim wrote:
what operating system does it use? and what make it an "unusual machine" thanks :-?

Hmmm... Be Box..... I'd hazard a guess at the Be OS. ;-)

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: Skyraker on April 24, 2007, 05:55:27 PM

What the hell is it?

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: bloodline on April 24, 2007, 05:57:27 PM

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Skyraker wrote:
What the hell is it?

It's a bebox... run BeOS 5PE on an old PC and you'll get the idea...

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: Skyraker on April 24, 2007, 06:01:37 PM

Is it good?

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: bloodline on April 24, 2007, 06:04:14 PM

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Skyraker wrote:
Is it good?

Not really... like a crap MacOS X...

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: adonay on April 24, 2007, 06:06:25 PM

dont know about that old version but the newer ones are ok,,,

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: CannonFodder on April 24, 2007, 06:15:19 PM

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bloodline wrote:

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Skyraker wrote:
Is it good?

Not really... like a crap MacOS X...

Different strokes for different folks.

MacOSX for preschoolers in comparison to BeOS.

I hate it, as it really restricts me.

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: CannonFodder on April 24, 2007, 06:16:41 PM

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Skyraker wrote:
What the hell is it?

Well, first it was to be Mac OS 10, then that fell through so it was supposed to be Amiga OS 4, then that fell though so it became dead :-)

Checkout www.haiku-os.org (http://www.haiku-os.org) for the OSS clone.

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: guru-666 on April 24, 2007, 06:36:57 PM

Ha you beat me to the punch... it was going to be the next gen amiga OS!  This was back in 1997/98 if I remember correctly...
would not have been the worst thing to happen.... well better than what happend anyway!

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: TheMagicM on April 24, 2007, 06:55:42 PM

it aint got shi7 on ToiletOS. (No pun intended)

Title: Re: BeBox on Ebay
Post by: McVenco on April 24, 2007, 08:09:57 PM

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guru-666 wrote:

This was back in 1997/98 if I remember correctly...

Even before that. The first ones came out in late 1995. AFAIK it was (one of) the first "home" computers running dual processors. I remember seeing one on a show somewhere in 1996, it was really cool how those little LED towers showed the CPU usage. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox