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The BeBox was a short-lived dual processor PC , offered by Be Inc. to run their own Operating System , BeOS .

The BeBox made its debut in October 1995 (BeBox Dual603-66). The processors were upgraded to 133 MHz in August 1996 (BeBox Dual603e-133). Production was halted at the end of 1996, following the port of BeOS to the Macintosh , in order for the company to concentrate on software. Be sold around 1000 66 MHz BeBoxes and 800 133 MHz BeBoxes.


HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS

Initial prototypes were equipped with two AT&T Hobbit processors and three AT&T 9308S DSP s.

CPU Load Meter s on the front of the unit (dubbed the " Blinkenlights "), and the GeekPort in back allowed for experimentation.

  • Two PowerPC 603 Processors running at 66 or 133 MHz powered the BeBox. Prototypes having dual 200 MHz CPUs or four CPUs exist, but these prototypes were never publicly available.

  • GeekPort: a digital and analog I/O and DC Power connector, 37-pin connector on the ISA Bus .

  • --- Two independent, bidirectional 8-bit ports

  • --- Four A/D pins routing to a 12-bit A/D Converter

  • --- Four D/A pins connected to an independent 8-bit D/A Converter

  • --- Two signal Ground reference pins

  • --- Eleven power and ground pins:

  • -- Two at +5 V, one at +12 V, one at -12 V, seven ground pins.



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