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Wow, I haven't seen this video in a long time.

Buying a BeBox was one of the best things I ever did. I took out a loan for about $2,000 from my bank to get one and start writing apps. Not a lot materialized out of it financially but the experience was invaluable. I met a lot of people from the community that I still chat with to this day.

Be, Inc had some really good ideas.

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Still got your BeBox? I turn mine on every now and then to make sure it still works - I don't think I can ever bring myself to sell it, but I'm still at a loss as to what I will do with it.

Which model?

Rev A, 66mhz. I bought a new PC instead of upgrading to the 133mhz model, and ran NextStep on it, then BeOS .. then Linux. ;)

I do! A Rev A 66, IIRC.

I owned a dual 66mhz back a few years ago. Hands down the coolest piece of computing hardware I've ever purchased. I regret selling it at least once a month. I will never find another one.

It still blows my mind how good the OS was. Could deadlock the entire system, but I'll be damned if your CD was going to stop playing perfectly. Not even a skip.

I did a lot of experiments writing C++ to lock up resources in an effort to try and crash the system. It was very hard to do. It was amazing to be banging on the system and my tunes were still humming away! It is funny to hear others say this too.

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