6: The Be Computer Company

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