Hobbit Bebox

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Hi,

I took some picture of my hobbit powered bebox.
they are aavailable here :
http://homepage.mac.com/softkid/PhotoAlbum4.html

Ludovic

[Super Dave Osbourne]

Post by Ludovic Hirlimann
Hi,
I took some picture of my hobbit powered bebox.
http://homepage.mac.com/softkid/PhotoAlbum4.html
Ludovic

Damn right! Wow, that is nice, maybe a little more photos
and some technical information about the box. I have two
dual PPC beboxen, and many multi processor x86 bebox systems
(of course they are 3rd party, not Be Inc) and have some pages
up at

http://sdo.dyndns.org

along with some other BeShare morons pages (some of which are
pretty nice folks, but mostly morons) with their configurations

http://sdo.dyndns.org/configurations

as well as my quad intel PP200mhz based system with BeOS
R5.0.3 on it running just lovely

http://sdo.dyndns.org/configurations/sdo/sdoquad/index.html

and many many more of other folks machines.

Thanks for your posting, great to see one of the few Hobbit
boxen around. What did you pay for it, and how much do you
guess it is worth on hte open market now. I would give you 500
USD for it :) hehehehe

Regards,

SDO

[Jeff Hellige]

Post by Super Dave Osbourne
Damn right! Wow, that is nice, maybe a little more photos
and some technical information about the box. I have two
dual PPC beboxen, and many multi processor x86 bebox systems
(of course they are 3rd party, not Be Inc) and have some pages
up at

Your BeOS configuration pages are an interesting read. It's nice to
see what configurations other people are running for BeOS. Your
quad-CPU machine sounds really cool.

I've got two PPC BeBoxen myself. Unfortunately one is having issues
with the bootrom and doesn't get very far into the boot process.

Post by Super Dave Osbourne
Thanks for your posting, great to see one of the few Hobbit
boxen around.

I also have one of the Hobbit's and it, along with Ludovic's machine,
are currently the only two Hobbit's listed on the registry at
BeBox.nu. It'd certainly be interesting to know just how many there
are out there, as well as any other info still available. There are a
number of images available at BeBox.nu of the Hobbit's, inside and
out. I purchased mine from someone who bought a pallet of stuff at
the Be Inc. auction and it was included with it.

Jeff

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Post by Jeff Hellige
I've got two PPC BeBoxen myself. Unfortunately one is having issues
with the bootrom and doesn't get very far into the boot process.

Jeff what viedo card is in the box ?

[Jeff Hellige]

Post by Ludovic Hirlimann

Post by Jeff Hellige
I've got two PPC BeBoxen myself. Unfortunately one is having issues
with the bootrom and doesn't get very far into the boot process.

Jeff what viedo card is in the box ?

When I got the BeBox it already had known problems. I've swapped most
things out of it, including the PSU. Even used a known compatible S3
Trio64 video board out of my other one. It doesn't progress past the
RAM tests, as indicated by the front LED's. It doesn't even try to
access the floppy drive, so can't even try to reflash the bootrom.

Jeff

[Jeff Hellige]

Post by Jeff Hellige
I also have one of the Hobbit's and it, along with Ludovic's machine,
are currently the only two Hobbit's listed on the registry at
BeBox.nu. It'd certainly be interesting to know just how many there
are out there, as well as any other info still available. There are a
number of images available at BeBox.nu of the Hobbit's, inside and
out. I purchased mine from someone who bought a pallet of stuff at
the Be Inc. auction and it was included with it.

Nice find, what did you pay for it? That has to be one of the rarest
of all computers I know in existance other than mega million dollar
PDA prototypes I have seen running Smalltalk (saw one in 2000, 15 million
a pop cost in development, like 3 were made, 45 million in dev costs
total)

It was one of those things where I saw it for sale and couldn't
believe what I was seeing. I wasn't convinced until I got it home and
opened it up. It cost me $50.00. Since nobody can quite decide how
many of them were assembled or how many still exist, it's hard to say
if it's rarer than say the likes of the Apple I or Lisa I, or even the
mythical Amiga 3000+. Too bad the Hobbit machines are considerably
less well known than any of those three. Still a very interesting
machine though. Mine is a much earlier and more raw example than
Ludovic's. It boots to only a terminal window and the kernel carries
a date in March 1992. It also lacks all the additional expansion
cards that his has, mine having only the video card installed.

Jeff

[Todd Nathan]

Post by Jeff Hellige

Post by Jeff Hellige
I also have one of the Hobbit's and it, along with Ludovic's machine,
are currently the only two Hobbit's listed on the registry at
BeBox.nu. It'd certainly be interesting to know just how many there
are out there, as well as any other info still available. There are a
number of images available at BeBox.nu of the Hobbit's, inside and
out. I purchased mine from someone who bought a pallet of stuff at
the Be Inc. auction and it was included with it.

Nice find, what did you pay for it? That has to be one of the rarest
of all computers I know in existance other than mega million dollar
PDA prototypes I have seen running Smalltalk (saw one in 2000, 15 million
a pop cost in development, like 3 were made, 45 million in dev costs
total)

It was one of those things where I saw it for sale and couldn't
believe what I was seeing. I wasn't convinced until I got it home and
opened it up. It cost me $50.00. Since nobody can quite decide how
many of them were assembled or how many still exist, it's hard to say
if it's rarer than say the likes of the Apple I or Lisa I, or even the
mythical Amiga 3000+. Too bad the Hobbit machines are considerably
less well known than any of those three. Still a very interesting
machine though. Mine is a much earlier and more raw example than
Ludovic's. It boots to only a terminal window and the kernel carries
a date in March 1992. It also lacks all the additional expansion
cards that his has, mine having only the video card installed.
Jeff

Sweet price and find! Have to say, that is a cherry and very rare
example of Dot-Plot-Bomb expenses :) I wish I was you, only for the
beboxen hobbit style. Nice catch... It is hard to believe the fortune
(and responsibility) you now have upon you. If you decide to find it a new
home, email me. :) I'm a quality adopting gardian.