wtb: BeBox

[jonhutchings]

Any model, even non working, but since I live in the UK costs can't be too high given the cost of shipping. Any ideas very gratefully recieved

Many thanks
Jon

[brams]

Any model, even non working, but since I live in the UK costs can't be too high given the cost of shipping. Any ideas very gratefully recieved

Many thanks
Jon

You'll be lucky mate, it cost me nearly a 1000 dollars to get one of eBay in the US and import it into the UK. 685 purchase price, 140 shipping and about another 120 bucks duty/VAT in the UK.

Best of luck tho :-)

[CP/M User]

brams wrote:

> You'll be lucky mate, it cost me nearly a 1000
> dollars to get one of eBay in the US and import it
> into the UK. 685 purchase price, 140 shipping and
> about another 120 bucks duty/VAT in the UK.

> Best of luck tho :-)

Why, are these machines rare in the UK or something?

Just wondered.

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

brams wrote:

> You'll be lucky mate, it cost me nearly a 1000
> dollars to get one of eBay in the US and import it
> into the UK. 685 purchase price, 140 shipping and
> about another 120 bucks duty/VAT in the UK.

> Best of luck tho :-)

Why, are these machines rare in the UK or something?

Just wondered.

CP/M User.


Why, d'yall have an excess of 'em in Oz?

--T

[CP/M User]

Terry Yager wrote:

> Why, d'yall have an excess of 'em in Oz?

LOL! We wish! :-)

CP/M User.

[brams]

brams wrote:
> Best of luck tho :-)

Why, are these machines rare in the UK or something?

Just wondered.

CP/M User.

Big time, there are not many BeBox's period, say about 2000 maybe 2200 of which about 800 are dual MPC 603e @ 133mhz, the rest are dual MPC 603 @ 66mhz, There are a handful of various prototypes, ATT Hobbit BeBox, plus about 8 or less PPC BeBox with dual 117, 120 or 200mhz MPC 603 CPU's, there is/was a (maybe more) quad 604e BeBox prototype.

I was looking to buy one for about 8 or 9 years, that was after trying out the BeOS Preview CD that was on the cover of a MacWorld UK magazine, I was hooked on BeOS after that.

There are some pics of it here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21699268@N00/sets/1779642/

They are rare full stop, even more so in the UK, I've only ever seen one on eBay UK and that was about 1999 maybe a bit earlier. They are rare when they come up on eBay COM. I've only ever seen a handfull come and go on eBay.

[CP/M User]

brams wrote:

> Big time, there are not many BeBox's period, say
> about 2000 maybe 2200 of which about 800 are dual MPC
> 603e @ 133mhz, the rest are dual MPC 603 @ 66mhz,
> There are a handful of various prototypes, ATT Hobbit
> BeBox, plus about 8 or less PPC BeBox with dual 117,
> 120 or 200mhz MPC 603 CPU's, there is/was a (maybe
> more) quad 604e BeBox prototype.

> I was looking to buy one for about 8 or 9 years, that
> was after trying out the BeOS Preview CD that was on
> the cover of a MacWorld UK magazine, I was hooked on
> BeOS after that.

> They are rare full stop, even more so in the UK, I've
> only ever seen one on eBay UK and that was about 1999
> maybe a bit earlier. They are rare when they come up
> on eBay COM. I've only ever seen a handfull come and
> go on eBay.

It sounds suprising that these machines are rare - cause for
some reason the name of it - "BeBox" sticks out - as does
BeOS. Perhaps I picked up a computer magazine or something &
read about it at the time - may well be they were dubbing it
as something which would replace IBM compatables.

Do you know when this machine was released?

Anyway - sounds amazing their quite rare.

CP/M User.

[brams]

Hi

They where released about a decade ago, in fact I think it was round about this time in 1996, when the first PPC BeBoxes landed on the scene, IIRC the Hobbit BeBox occured much earlier, I think the prototypes for that would be about 1992-93 time frame. The reason they'd used the AT&T Hobbit CPU is that the hardware developer at Be, Steve Sakoman, was the same guy that had done the prototype Newton at Apple, and that used the Hobbit CPU, thus he'd be familier with the CPU at the time.

I think rumors spread like wildfire about the BeBox, I can't recall why, maybe it was the LED columns on front panel, or just we where more receptive too other platforms at that time, Amiga, ST, Acorn/BBC, etc where still active then, not just the Windows/Mac/Linux world we have today.

Also there was the X86 and PPC Macintosh versions of BeOS that where released later on.

Yeah the BeBox is very cool to own, I'm not sure exactly how much use it is, but I get pleasure from playing with it. The NeXT's I have are more developed though, BeOS is still a bit raw really.