Jul 30th, 2006
BeBox Edition
Well, I’m finally home from Tennessee. I appologize for not updating the site in a while, I’ve been busy between running around with my friends and working on my new web site.
Anyway, my new toy came in Friday. A just-like-new, 1 in 700, 1996 BeBox. Mine has dual 67mhz powerpc processors, 16mb ram, 1gb scsi drive, a cd drive, and more ports on the back than you can shake a dongle at. It also came with BeOS R4 installed with extra software. To top all of that off, I got a ton of BeOS cd’s including: AA, PR2, and both Intel/PPC R3 releases.
Hopefully, I can locate an R5 Pro disk to upgrade to. This will allow me to run BONE hopefully. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. More can be found here.
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So where’s the BeOS screenshots? Damnit cody, I expect more from you than this. We need a review of your BeOS experience + screenshots.
One thing that I am a bit curious about is the Motorola stamp on the CPUs. Afaik, PPCs sported IBM logos.
Dragoniz3r: There are some BeOS screenshots in the link I gave to the rest. As for the Motorolla logos, they also made some early PPC chips. This is now done at Freescale Inc. though.
I only saw two, of questionable worth, as far as getting a feel for BeOS is concerned.