OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21594/BeOS_Treasure_Chest_up_for_Bids_on_eBay Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:52:13 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com I find myself wanting this http://osnews.com/thread?366517 http://osnews.com/thread?366517 I don't even have any special attachment to BeOS, but I want it. I've actually thought it would be fun to have a geek-oriented restaurant like the Hard Rock Cafe that's full of computing memorabilia. If everyone who read OSNews lived in the same town, then I think it would be a good business move. Since that's not the case, though, I'm afraid it's just a pipe dream. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments Why Why Why http://osnews.com/thread?366520 http://osnews.com/thread?366520 Why doesn't the seller ship it worldwide? ;)

I for one would mind paying the S&H expenses... Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Xeon3D) Comments RE: Why Why Why http://osnews.com/thread?366521 http://osnews.com/thread?366521 He states its because of insurance... Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (big_gie) Comments The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366523 http://osnews.com/thread?366523 These things belong to the Computer History Museum. People who buy it, or the owner, should donate the tablet and/or the BeBox to the Museum.

I did so for my rare items. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments Thom, buy this stuff! http://osnews.com/thread?366524 http://osnews.com/thread?366524 Is lovely... why is on first page? We talk about an OS which dies 9 years in the past... and we still imagine it as a such a great dream on to continue our life.

At least as OS News site title, I would think that EEE-PC running Android is a much more important new. Why don't advertise the first PC? Or Windows 2? All are stupid things today, and all nostalgic persons will go for them... Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ciplogic) Comments RE: Why Why Why http://osnews.com/thread?366528 http://osnews.com/thread?366528 I won't ship worldwide because of insurance and tracking. I've had SO many issues when sending to places other than Canada or the US since we can't reliably track it. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366529 http://osnews.com/thread?366529 They already have a BeBox and some of this donated my Michael "Minox" Paine. :-) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE[2]: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366534 http://osnews.com/thread?366534 I saw the BeBox when I visited a few years ago.

That place (the CHM) was awesome. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bryanv) Comments RE: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366538 http://osnews.com/thread?366538 not that your bias or anything. :-X ;-) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sn0n) Comments My computer donation... http://osnews.com/thread?366541 http://osnews.com/thread?366541 Hardware:

Dual 66Mhz BeBox w/ Keyboard & Mouse (very low S/N from Jeremy F)
Dual 133MHz BeBox w/ Spare faceplate
BeIA Prototype webpad
RangeLan 802.11 Access Point
MO44 - Designed for BeOS Midi Device

Software:

BeBox Floppy Disks
All Pre-Release BeOS versions
2 copies of BeOS PR2
8 copies of BeOS R3 w/ Install Guides
2 copies of BeOS R3 PPC
1 copy of BeOS R3 Intel
BeOS R4 Retail box
BeOS R4 mailer pack
BeOS R4.5 Retail box
4 copies of BeOS R4.5 (1 is open)
BeOS R4.5 Demo CD
BeOS R4.5 mailer pack
BeOS R5.0 Retail box
BeOS R5 signed by the GoBe team
BeOS R5 updates to R5.0.3
Unreleased BeOS x86 software
Zeta Deluxe Edition
BeIA disc Images
BeIA Developers Kit
T-Racks
Krillo
Groove Maker
Corum III
Wildcard Designs "Last Chance" CD (All the games they ported to BeOS)
BeOS BuzzCD - from LeBuzz.com
Gobe Productive 3
Civ: Call to Power signed by the porting team / company owner
GoBe Productive 2 signed by the GoBe team
Tune Tracker Radio System - Pre-Release Signed by Dane Scott - (Owner) TuneTracker Systems

Books:

MP3 the Definative Guide by Scott Hacker
BeOS Developer Guide
BeOS Advanced Topics
Programming the BeOS
BeOS Porting Unix Apps
BeOS Pro 5 User Guide
7 Spiral Bound BeBox Developer Guides
BeOS Bible signed to Minox (BeShare Admin) from Scott Hacker

Media:

3 BeIA promo flyers
3 GoBe Productive 2 promo flyers
3 BeOS 5 promo flyers
3 GoBe Productive 3 promo flyers

Other:

"Be In Your Senses" Pin
2 laser cut vinyl bumper stickers I had custom made
Be Inc CD Case w/OS CDs inside Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Minox) Comments Speaking of donations... http://osnews.com/thread?366544 http://osnews.com/thread?366544 I just donated my entire OS/2 collection (version 1 to eComStation) to WarpStock for their event this year. Since moving, I've come across another box full I'm sending them, btu yeah, I do donate to the cause. :-D I should just open a museum.... Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE: My computer donation... http://osnews.com/thread?366557 http://osnews.com/thread?366557 An amazing collection. I still have my BeBox, software, books and stuff too. Still works fine, just dont use it anymore. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jteg) Comments RE: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366579 http://osnews.com/thread?366579 Eugenia, would you happen to know if they have a copy of the October'97 "MacUser" magazine?... It came with a copy of BeOS PR1 attached. I'd be willing to donate 1 of the 2 unopened copies I kept. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FurryOne) Comments RE[2]: My computer donation... http://osnews.com/thread?366581 http://osnews.com/thread?366581 Still works fine, just dont use it anymore.

I still have a computer loaded with Zeta 1.21, and while I'm not too keen on YellowTab's stuff, I prefer BFS for storing my MP3s because I think its more stable than HFS+ in spite of Dominic's work on it. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FurryOne) Comments RE: Speaking of donations... http://osnews.com/thread?366593 http://osnews.com/thread?366593 /me smacks kancept

you didn't give me first dibs on the bebox?! ;) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments Wow http://osnews.com/thread?366600 http://osnews.com/thread?366600 If I had the money id dump at least $1000 on this in a heartbeat ;) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (computrius) Comments RE[2]: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366602 http://osnews.com/thread?366602
Eugenia, would you happen to know if they have a copy of the October'97 "MacUser" magazine?... It came with a copy of BeOS PR1 attached. I'd be willing to donate 1 of the 2 unopened copies I kept.



I don't have the mag. If it's won, I can put you in contact with who wins the auction. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE[3]: My computer donation... http://osnews.com/thread?366603 http://osnews.com/thread?366603 Doesn't network well enough for me to reply on it to store those. I totally love the BFS and it's attributes, it just doesn't work for my networking needs is all. I wish some ZETA items were backported to R5 or Dan0, but they made it so it wouldn't be. Oh well. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE[2]: Speaking of donations... http://osnews.com/thread?366604 http://osnews.com/thread?366604
/me smacks kancept

you didn't give me first dibs on the bebox?! ;)



I still have the MediaTrix audiocard if you want it for your NeXT. :-) Send me an address and shipping and you can have it. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE: I find myself wanting this http://osnews.com/thread?366607 http://osnews.com/thread?366607 I agree. It'd be cool to have all alt OSes and such all jacked into the net. Surfing in DOS or on a C64 (yeah, it can be done). Have a BeBox and NeXT and amigas all in there. OS/2 and some SGI gear. Just nothing but a world of what Microsoft has destroyed. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments DT300 Web pad http://osnews.com/thread?366633 http://osnews.com/thread?366633 I used to own a DT300!!! Qubit branded... brilliant bit of kit, but BeIA is a total dead end in development terms. Even with a leaked version of the dev kit (the full one, though no source, just R5 hosted compilers and tools) it was buggy as heck. It was extremely hard to expand the OS as the file system on the beta I had was buggy and would not create a partition larger than 64MB. The OS could be compressed and the executable "crushed", but doing this made it extremely hard to add new executables. Often, the symbolic dictionary needed to be updated to handle the new executables and I have no idea how that would be practical in the field. I did manage to port some stuff to it though. The API had odd things missing from the R5 API though, so it was very hit or miss.

Having said that; Thom, the DT300 is basically what you could build out of an Atom reference board these days. It's a low powered Intel compatible CPU, running off of a CF card (which is absolute hell to get to, by the way, involving literally taking the device apart and looking at the bare motherboard, then prising the CF card out scraping a couple of chips on the way out.. scary stuff!!) with an 800 x 600 touch screen. That is about it. The wireless is next to useless as it's based on the RangeLan and is completely incompatible with any modern hardware. There was a later version for the DT3xx series (320?) with a second external slot and using 802.11a (b?) and that would almost be useful today.

A 66MHz BeBox struggles *seriously* to run BeOS 5.0. It is only just workable. I sold my BeBox a while back, but I kept a Mac 9500 with dual processors that basically runs BeOS R5.0 really well. It made the BeBox look stupidly slow in comparison.

Kancept.. so what is on the "source" CD's? ;-) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments wow! http://osnews.com/thread?366639 http://osnews.com/thread?366639 Holy cow that's a lot of stuff! Brings back many memories of the good ol' days.

I've still got a "We Be Geeks" BeOS pocket protector and a (working, I think) BeOS pen... I should really pass those on to someone who's still enthusiastic about the OS that could have been.

- chrish Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chrish) Comments RE: wow! http://osnews.com/thread?366642 http://osnews.com/thread?366642 Wow, Chris Herborth!! Cool :-) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments RE[3]: Speaking of donations... http://osnews.com/thread?366644 http://osnews.com/thread?366644 oh man, I totally forgot you had that! yeah, I want it ;) I'll email you. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments RE[2]: I find myself wanting this http://osnews.com/thread?366646 http://osnews.com/thread?366646 And it would be called "Electric Cafe", of course. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE[2]: wow! http://osnews.com/thread?366649 http://osnews.com/thread?366649 AM NOT!

- chrish Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chrish) Comments I still have one of those gray t-shirts http://osnews.com/thread?366659 http://osnews.com/thread?366659 Gray t-shirt girl size=small with Be logo on it. Never used. Got it at a info meeting in France.

If i can find it in my storage maybe i should put it on ebay. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments RE[3]: wow! http://osnews.com/thread?366672 http://osnews.com/thread?366672 In the words of Ken Ray, Chris - YOU ROCK! ;-) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments RE[3]: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366681 http://osnews.com/thread?366681
"Eugenia, would you happen to know if they have a copy of the October'97 "MacUser" magazine?... It came with a copy of BeOS PR1 attached. I'd be willing to donate 1 of the 2 unopened copies I kept.


I don't have the mag. If it's won, I can put you in contact with who wins the auction. "

Um, sorry, but I was referring to the Museum, not to the winner. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FurryOne) Comments RE[4]: The right thing to do http://osnews.com/thread?366817 http://osnews.com/thread?366817 I think Minox has more of an idea what they have at the museum since he has spoken with them and sent items over than Eugina has. Buzz him. ;-) Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments RE: Wow http://osnews.com/thread?367068 http://osnews.com/thread?367068 You and me both, buddy!

Looking at the various photos is REALLY getting me excited. Selling off a BeBox and a BeIA tablet in one go... I think that's never even been done before! It's like a once in a lifetime opportunity and indeed something I would have without a doubt opted for if I had the money.

I'm still cherishing my "Be in your senses" pins (I have 2), my collection of ZETA releases and I wonder what my BeGeistert T-shirt collection would be worth! ;-) Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eddyspeeder) Comments