BeBox

The BeBox is a multiprocessing personal computer that was briefly sold by Be, Inc. to run the company's own operating system, BeOS. It has dual PowerPC CPUs, its I/O board has a custom "GeekPort", and the front bezel has "".
The BeBox Dual603-66 made its debut on October 3, 1995. The processors were upgraded to 133 MHz for the BeBox Dual603-133, which was released on August 5, 1996. Production was halted in January 1997, following the port of BeOS to the Power Macintosh and Power Computing clones, so that the company could concentrate on software. Be sold around a thousand 66 MHz BeBoxes and eight hundred 133 MHz BeBoxes.The BeBox, General, FAQ, How many BeBoxes were sold before they were discontinued? Be, Inc.
Be, Inc. founder Jean-Louis Gassée did not see the BeBox as a general consumer device, warning that "Before we let you use the BeBox, we believe you must have some aptitude toward programming — the standard language is ."
==Configurations==
Initial prototypes are equipped with two processors and three AT&T 9308S s.https://www.hirlimann.net/Ludovic/beos/hobbitdoc/intro1.jpg
Production models use two 66 MHz PowerPC 603 processors or two 133 MHz PowerPC 603e processors to power the BeBox. Prototypes having dual 200 MHz CPUs or four CPUs exist, but were never made publicly available.
===Main processor board===
* 2x PowerPC 603/66 MHz or 603e/133 MHz processors
* 8x 72-pin SIMM sockets
* 128 KB Flash ROM
* Three PCI slots
* Five ISA slots
* Internal SCSI connector
* Internal IDE connector
* Internal floppy connector
* External SCSI-2 connector
* Parallel port
* Keyboard port, AT-style
* Three GeekPort fuses
* I/O Board connector
* Front panel connector
* Power connector
==="Blinkenlights"===
Two yellow/green vertical LED arrays, dubbed the "blinkenlights", are built into the front panel to illustrate the CPU load. The bottommost LED on the right side indicates hard disk activity.	
===I/O board===
* Four serial ports (9-pin D-shell)
* One mouse port, PS/2-type
* Two joystick ports (15-pin D-shell)
* Two MIDI out ports
* Two MIDI in ports
* Three infrared (IR) I/O ports (4-pin mini DIN)
* One internal CD audio line-level input (5-pin strip)
* One internal microphone audio input (4-pin strip)
* One internal headphone audio output (4-pin strip)
* Two line-level RCA inputs (L/R)
* Two line-level outputs (L/R)
* One microphone input 3.5 mm stereo phono jack
* One headphone output 3.5 mm stereo phono jack
* 16-bit stereo sound system capable of 44.1 and 48 kHz
* One "GeekPort" (37-pin D-shell)
** An experimental-electronic-development oriented port, backed by three fuses on the mainboard
** Digital and analog and }} connector, 37-pin connector on the 
** Two independent, bidirectional 8-bit ports
** Four A/D pins routing to a 12-bit 
** Four D/A pins connected to an independent 8-bit 
** Two signal reference pins
** Eleven power and ground pins:
*** Two at +5 V, one at +12 V, one at -12 V, seven ground pins
==References==
==See also==
* (MESS) — able to emulate the BeBox Dual603-66 and Dual603-133
==External links==
*The BeBox Dual603 datasheet and comprehensive specs at Be, Inc.
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*BeBox photo gallery by Joseph Palmer (Be hardware engineer)
*BeBox Dual603-66 and 133 at Progetto EMMA
*BEBOX at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
*GeekPort pinout at Pinouts.ru
* at Wikipedia
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