Flashback

6: The Be Computer Company


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Started by former members of Apple's leadership team, Be was formed to take on the Mac and other computers of the mid-90s. The company wrote its own operating system and shipped dual-CPU towers before failing to be bought by Apple and slowly fading away.

Links and Show Notes: Connected - Relay FM Jean-Louis Gassée – Monday Note OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ Be BeBox DigiBarn Systems: Be Box Quinn's RGB Mac Pro Overview | Build your own BeBox and run BeOS using Virtualbox | Adafruit Learning System GeekPort pinout and wiring BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X | Hackaday BeOS Operating System The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica BeOS: The 10,000-Foot View BeOS User Guide BeOS The incredible OS that disappeared (part 1) Be Operating System - YouTube BeOS The incredible OS that disappeared (part 2) Be Operating System - YouTube Dashboard – 512 Pixels BeOS and BFS, the BeOS Filing System | Low End Mac Using BeOS on a Power Mac | Low End Mac Sony eVilla BeBits - BeIA Supported Hardware Apple acquires Next, Jobs - CNET Gassée: Thank God Apple chose Steve Jobs's NeXT over my BeOS - 9to5Mac Palm buys old Apple rival, Be - Macworld UK BeOS will live on as Microsoft settles legal action Haiku Project Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor | Ars Technica Overview | Build your own BeBox and run BeOS using Virtualbox | Adafruit Learning System
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