[Faust]

A BeBox has been one of my last remaining "White Whales" that I have been hunting for my collection. Given the history behind it alone it's something I have been desperately looking for some time now.

I have heard of some people having some that they might sell down the line but I haven't heard anything from them since. It would be awesome to get a proper lead on one.

[nevyn]

Sounds like they may be a bit too long in the tooth to be practical to setup and use, but even so I'd still love to get my hands on one just for the tick list. Meanwhile I just go around installing Haiku onto everything that will take it >.<

[jteg]

A BeBox has been one of my last remaining "White Whales" that I have been hunting for my collection. Given the history behind it alone it's something I have been desperately looking for some time now.

I have heard of some people having some that they might sell down the line but I haven't heard anything from them since. It would be awesome to get a proper lead on one.

I have one of the original BeBoxes that I am finally ready to part with.  I can send photos if you are interested.

[Irinikus]

I have one of the original BeBoxes that I am finally ready to part with.  I can send photos if you are interested.

If you don’t come right with @Faust and don’t need to sell it immediately, I may be interested (depending on the machines condition), but I’m committed to another big purchase for now, so this would have to be queued.

[Raion]

Hey guys,

Just a reminder you can't offer things outside of the marketplace. jteg, I encourage you to list it per our rules. If you need a silicon image account to host images, let me know.

[Dr Slump]

Sorry if I make the entrance to the effect and go slightly OT, but I wanted to share with you the replica of the bebox that I made during the covid period
I leave you the video of the construction process (from the ripping of an old PC case to the finished product)

If you think it is appropriate, I open a separate thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYPzebgbtXI

[TruHobbyist]

Impressive, Dr Slump! Felicitazioni

[moire]

yes, I've got one. I don't feel like parting with it though...
So far, I have not been successful at reinstalling the machine. It booted a few years ago, but the disk was dangerously noisy and I always do a clean install if possible. Then I noticed that someone fitted a Matrox Millennium graphics card, which isn't supported by the basic box, so you get no output when you start up the machine. Turns out that hardware support is difficult. Two weeks ago I finally got a proper card, an old S3 with an 864 chip. I hope that I can reinstall this machine in the near future.
If anyone has links to proper documentation, I would be grateful.

Dual 133 MHz BeBox owner here. Mine came from the factory with a Matrox Millenium PCI card and works great. As far as I know, that is the best supported PCI video card in BeOS. If you search for "BeOS compatability" on archive.org, you will find a page on frizbe.net that has an extensive hardware compatability list. Hopefully you don't have an issue with the PCI bus. Maybe just that Millenium is defective. Do you get any video output with the S3 card?

Someone mentioned compatibility issues with the keyboard and mouse - I must say that USB keyboards work fine for me using adapters from USB --> PS2 --> AT. The issue is that you need to use a serial mouse, which is a bit funny. The DIN ports that look like PS2 are not PS2.

Slightly OT but if anyone is wondering, BeOS R5 runs perfectly on Dell Latitude CPi laptops (the 233, 266, and 300 MHz models). Even sound works by default. Again, consult the frizbe hardware compatability list. It's not hard to configure a Pentium II desktop that fully supports BeOS. It also runs perfectly on certain macs.

Since the BeBox is PPC, you need to find PPC binaries to run on it, which can be found in the pulkomandy BeOS archive if you search for "ppc".

I also know that it is possible to install an SSD into a BeBox using certain adapters (I think you need two), but unfortunately the person who discovered that will not tell me which adapter(s) he used. I believe they may be expensive.

I disagree with anyone who thinks BeOS is cumbersome to use. I'm running Firefox, Thunderbird, and VLC on BeOS R5 on a Pentium II 300 MHz with 128 MB of RAM. BeOS is really fast. I can't run those x86 binaries on the BeBox, but everything I've run on the BeBox has been responsive. I haven't really gotten into Haiku yet, but that only requires a Pentium I and 256 MB RAM.

If anyone has any BeBox or BeOS questions, please feel free to ask me.