The BeBox: Inside One of the Most Beautifully Overbuilt Computer of the 1990s
Late 2000. There is a grey andblue 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 bay, and the vertical-vent grille that hides two columns of green LEDs dancing with the CPU load. I paid $400 for it in two installments of $200 to a guy named Danan, about $745 inflation-adjusted to 2025. That amount of