Does anyone know of a BeBox for sale? I have looked about a little on eBay, and have yet to find anything. I figured I would ask around on here as I continued my search.
Thanks in advance for any info...
Quote from: "conrad"Does anyone know of a BeBox for sale? I have looked about a little on eBay, and have yet to find anything. I figured I would ask around on here as I continued my search.
Thanks in advance for any info...
I wish you luck on that one. It is on my list as well, but even harder to come by than some of the NeXT stuff. They do show up on ebay from time to time, but apparently most are sold and resold to people in the "Be community" before ever reaching ebay or the like.
Chef
Yeah, I kind of figured it was a long shot. But I had forgotten how cool they were, and a photo on a website with Das Blinkenlights in action made me start to salivate...
I've known several people with Bebox's. I think one of them has one he might be willing to sell. But be prepared to pay 2000usd + for it.
Quote from: "helf"I've known several people with Bebox's. I think one of them has one he might be willing to sell. But be prepared to pay 2000usd + for it.
I'll sell you mine for $1900usd :)
lol.. If I had 1900usd I would either be pumping it all into my car or finally upgrading my PC :P
Hmm, rent and utilities for 3 months, or a BeBox?
It's a harder decision than it seems at first glance... :)
Being a poor college student sucks sometimes. Looks like I will have to delay until I find a cheap one (hah!).
Trust me, I feel your pain. I'll be starting college in january (hopefully...) and I have a part time job. I'm lucky I could afford my car, let alone rare computers :)
Quote from: "helf"I've known several people with Bebox's. I think one of them has one he might be willing to sell. But be prepared to pay 2000usd + for it.
I might consider selling mine for upwards of a couple of grand. Mine is a dual 133 Rev 8 in almost perfect cosmetic condition.
Quote from: "blackcube"Quote from: "helf"I've known several people with Bebox's. I think one of them has one he might be willing to sell. But be prepared to pay 2000usd + for it.
I might consider selling mine for upwards of a couple of grand. Mine is a dual 133 Rev 8 in almost perfect cosmetic condition.
I have a Rev 9 [Dual Geekports] and it's in absolutely perfect condition.
$1900usd - and still ... the lowest price on this messageboard :wink:
Quote from: "kenjay"I have a Rev 9 [Dual Geekports] and it's in absolutely perfect condition. $1900usd - and still ... the lowest price on this messageboard :wink:
Dual Geekports, Rev 9?, I guess your gonna tell us it's a dual 200mhz or a quad 604E BeBox eh?
Quote from: "conrad"Does anyone know of a BeBox for sale? I have looked about a little on eBay, and have yet to find anything. I figured I would ask around on here as I continued my search.
Thanks in advance for any info...
I know where there might still be a dual 66 but it's located in the UK.
Quote from: "blackcube"I might consider selling mine for upwards of a couple of grand. Mine is a dual 133 Rev 8 in almost perfect cosmetic condition.
I reckon you'd regret it if you did, that would leave a very big hole in your collection.
Quote from: "brams"Quote from: "conrad"Does anyone know of a BeBox for sale? I have looked about a little on eBay, and have yet to find anything. I figured I would ask around on here as I continued my search.
Thanks in advance for any info...
I know where there might still be a dual 66 but it's located in the UK.
Any idea on the price for that one? My masochistic side demands I ask.
Quote from: "conrad"Any idea on the price for that one? My masochistic side demands I ask.
It's over at the BeBox Zone
*here* (
http://www.bebox.nu/forums/viewtopic.php?t=248)
Memson the seller is also a member here.
brams
I was actually looking at that last night. Probably close to a 1000 USD, including shipping. Less than Kenjay, but probably considerably less of a machine than his Dual-GeekPorted beast ;) ...
I wonder if memson would take a 12" PowerBook in trade...
Quote from: "kenjay"I have a Rev 9 [Dual Geekports] and it's in absolutely perfect condition.
$1900usd - and still ... the lowest price on this messageboard :wink:
Pictures please!
Quote from: "brams"Quote from: "blackcube"I might consider selling mine for upwards of a couple of grand. Mine is a dual 133 Rev 8 in almost perfect cosmetic condition.
I reckon you'd regret it if you did, that would leave a very big hole in your collection.
That's why I priced it at above two grand. I really don't want to sell it.
Quote from: "blackcube"Quote from: "kenjay"I have a Rev 9 [Dual Geekports] and it's in absolutely perfect condition.
$1900usd - and still ... the lowest price on this messageboard :wink:
Pictures please!
:wink: = wink
I thought that everyone would know what that [smiley] meant! I was only kidding about the Rev 9 & Dual Geekports! Then ... I saw that you were talking about it over at the BB Zone and I just couldn't let this 'myth' go any farther! I'm sorry for the 'confusion'.
Hi,
First time poster from the community of kindred spirits over at the BeBox Zone.
QuoteI thought that everyone would know what that [smiley] meant! I was only kidding about the Rev 9 & Dual Geekports! Then ... I saw that you were talking about it over at the BB Zone and I just couldn't let this 'myth' go any farther! I'm sorry for the 'confusion'.
As you'll see over at the thread on the BeBox Zone (
http://www.bebox.nu/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1097), there almost certainly was a Rev9 BeBox (I completely missed the part of your myth about 2 GeekPorts when I read the thread - that's of course far less plausible ;-) ).
Having said that, there was also much talk of creating a PCI-based GeekPort when the BeBox was discontinued, so that people with GeekPort apps could still run them on Macs and PCs. As far as I'm aware, no GeekPort PCI card was ever completed, but perhaps there are some half completed prototypes somewhere, and such a beast could be plugged into a BeBox to actually create a multi-GeekPort monster! :D
Cheers,
Andrew
Quote from: "atlamp"Hi,
First time poster from the community of kindred spirits over at the BeBox Zone.
Cheers,
Andrew
Wow! It is a great honor to see you here! ... and welcome to the NeXTWorld! :lol:
QuoteWow! It is a great honor to see you here!
Don't know that it should be an honour, but thanks for the enthusiastic welcome :-)
Be Box for sale on ebay, for any that are interested. It is a dual 66mhz model.
The ebay auction number is 290062046510
Lets all get in line now and start the bidding.
I know this is a complex question, but what is a "fair" price for this machine?
Chef
oh wow.. noone bid! I want it! :)
jeez, it went for 261.01 usd... thats super cheap for a bebox :(
Quote from: "helf"jeez, it went for 261.01 usd... thats super cheap for a bebox :(
I bowed out, since my funds are very low this month because of christmas and such. Is that really a low price? I have no experience with how much they would "normally" go for, since I have rarely seen one for sale.
Chef
Quote from: "helf"jeez, it went for 261.01 usd... thats super cheap for a bebox :(
Blast! I knew I was forgetting to do something today.
Oh well. I've already got a 133 and a 66 BeBox, but I wanted to get one for parts just in case. Double blast!
Quote from: "pergamon"Quote from: "helf"jeez, it went for 261.01 usd... thats super cheap for a bebox :(
Blast! I knew I was forgetting to do something today.
Oh well. I've already got a 133 and a 66 BeBox, but I wanted to get one for parts just in case. Double blast!
Guess you got all wrapped up in the other auction for all the NeXT stuff. From someone who has a couple of Beboxes, was that a cheap price for one?
Chef
Quote from: "nextchef"
Guess you got all wrapped up in the other auction for all the NeXT stuff. From someone who has a couple of Beboxes, was that a cheap price for one?
Well, the first one I ever used was the 66, but it belonged to a friend of mine who bought it in 1995 (or early 1996, I forget) direct from Be. It lived in my room at college while my roommates and I (though mostly the former) used it and developed on it. BeZap, mentioned in Be Newsletter 50 (
http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/aboutbe/benewsletter/Issue50.html) was developed on that box. My friend gave me that BeBox a year or two ago. That friend, incidentally, is the one who did this:
http://www.68k.org/~degs/nextkeyboard.htmlThe first one I owned (the 133) I bought used in 1996 (7?) for a bit over $1k. I was in the Be dev program and had placed an order for a brand new one from Be the day before they announced the cancellation of the BeBox, but then somehow got in touch with a guy wanting to sell his for much less and canceled my order from Be. I never did release anything I developed on it, though my roommate did test out his DHCP client on it after developing it on BeOS/Intel. That DHCP client was bought by Be and became the official BeOS one, and he later went to work for Be.
At one point, we had 3 BeBoxen on the Rose-Hulman campus, which out of about 1k students is a pretty good ratio. Rose is also where I was introduced to NeXT, but that's another story.
So that's my long way of saying what I paid for them ($0 and ~$1000), and explaining why those prices don't really mean anything today. But to finally answer your question, yeah, I think that was a pretty good price.