Rick Chipper
Rick Chipper was one of the early BeBox owners in Australia. In issue 12 of the
BeOZ Digest, he wrote a review of his BeBox (which arrived the day before a
calculus exam). Read on for Rick's first impressions of his BeBox Allanon (now
in the care of Jason Davis).
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Kevin Fenzi
Kevin Fenzi posted his impressions of 'playing with his be' in early 1996. His
comments focus on packaging and software more than the BeBox itself, but they
are still an interesting contemporary view of the buzz surrounding the BeBox.
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Robert Poole
In mid 1996, Robert Poole posted his first impressions of his BeBox (after
spending 2 weeks trying to get it to work properly). His post identifies the
exact hardware he ended up using in his BeBox, hardware he had problems with,
and his thoughts on some of the (early revision) software.
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John Norstad
John Norstad was one of the early inhabitants of comp.sys.powerpc (before there
were dedicated Be newsgroups). Shortly after the creation of the
comp.sys.be newsgroup, John posted a review of his first experiences
with a BeBox from his point of view as a long time mac user.
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Peter N Lewis
Peter Lewis was interviewed by Rick Chipper in the early days of the BeBox. You
can read a transcript of the interview to see what Peter thought of the BeBox
and the BeOS.
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Masaaki Tani
Masaaki Tani's testimonial to the BeBox is presented in a rather unique form -
a stuffed toy! Have a look at his instructions for creating your own BeGurumi.
(For those who are curious, here is a sneak peek of the end product).
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Ralph Muha
Ralph wrote a brief description in a post to comp.sys.be upon the
arrival of his BeBox in January 1996. He talks about the way his BeBox was
shipped to him (without the front bezel at that stage, of course). It's an
interesting glimpse of the early days of the BeBox.
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Andrew Welch
Andy Welch would be known to many in the Macintosh community as an awesome
developer of shareware games such as Maelstrom, Escape Velocity, and Apeiron.
Andy wrote a detailed description when he first received a BeBox, and made the
description available on his website. Andy's opinion is reproduced here with
permission.
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Callum Duncan
Callum Duncan is a second generation BeBox owner, having purchased his 66MHz
BeBox from EBay. You can read about Callum and his history with BeOS and
BeBoxen in his profile at the
BeOS Journal. Callum is also the owner of the "bebox.net" and "bebox.org"
domain names.Callum was kind enough to send me his thoughts about the BeBox.
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Jim Moy
Jim Moy was one of the original BeBox developers, (having being accepted
into the Be Developer programme on December 7th 1995). Published on his
personal website, Jim offers a timeline view of his early BeBox addiction. This
is of interest as it offers a personal, contemporary account of BeBox
excitement. Jim also published his first impressions of the BeBox a few days
after he received his.
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