Second Most Beautiful Computer ... Ever.
Posted: 14-Apr-2008
Thom Holwerda over at OS News has nominated his top-ten most beautiful computers.
Amongst worthy company such as the SGI O2 and the NeXT Cube, it's great to see
the BeBox right up there at number two. (First place went to the
PowerMac G4 cube)
Thom notes:
The PowerPC BeBox' most distinctive feature was its front bezel,
designed by Mark Brinkerhoff. Brinkenhoff said in an interview: "[Be, Inc.]
wanted a bezel designed that had, ah, a look of power, as well as one that
displayed both CPUs running."
And so it did: the two columns at the sides of the bezel represent the power
element Gassee was after. These two columns also house two series of LEDs
(the Blinkenlights), one in each column, that indicate processor activity.
Each of them was connected to a processor, and the series of LEDs would light
up according to actual CPU activity. You cannot seriously say you would not
want that on your machine.
While Thom's nomination of the BeBox in the number two spot was not without
controversy, we here at the BeBox Zone totally agree with you, Thom. The BeBox
really was a ground-breaking design for a personal computer in the mid-nineties.
Good to see the BeBox is still on people's radars, even almost 13 years after its
public launch.
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