Late 2000. There is a grey and blue tower PC on my dorm-room desk like nothing anybody who walks into the room has ever seen. The Be logo on the front, a 3.5″ floppy peeking out the bottom of the drive bays, and the vertical grille that hides two columns of green LEDs (blinkenlights) dancing with the CPU load.  This was a dual-PowerPC workstation running an operating system you didn’t see in the wild. I was studying computer science at … Continue reading The BeBox: One of the Most Beautifully Overbuilt Computers of the 1990s