Be Gear Up For Auction

Well, if you live near the Menlo Park, CA area you should join what's evidently a number of slashdot readers at the Be, Co. auction. With the merger and dissolution of Be, all of their remaining hardware/furniture will be up for auction.

What about the code?

[anthony_dipierro]

Are they also auctioning off the copyright to the code?

Re:BeBox

[Rude Turnip]

A long time ago (1996 to be exact) Be actually made their own computers. The BeBox was a blue, stately-looking computer that ran dual PowerPC 66MHz procs (and later dual 133). The most notable feature of the BeBox was that the front has two Greco-romanesqe columns jutting out that featured vertical LED's that bounced up and down to indicate each CPU's load...aka "Das Blinkenlights." The back of the computer was loaded with all sorts of ports, serial, parallel, SCSI, MIDI and the GeekPort, which is some type of analog interface for hobbyists.

When PC's became more affordable and proliferated throughout the market, Be decided to stop making the BeBox.