Random purchase from eBay

Another one of my saved searches on eBay is for BeOS related things. Unfortunately these days  this search seems to pull back Bang and Olufsen stuff - which I definitely cannot afford but every now and again, something properly BeOS pops up. 


This little beauty came up for auction and was listed at £4.99. Within the last 30 seconds, it still had no bids, so I put one in for £4.99 and waited. I wasn't too bothered if someone else bid on it but I thought it would look cool in my CD wallet, next to other obscure software CDs. Turns out I won the auction so I paid and a few days later this turned up. 

Now I did have a 7300/200 that was another buy from eBay a while ago - which in theory this would have run on, but I had to have a cull of machines in early 2022. I was up to about 11 Macs at that point and I was getting moaned at as they were everywhere - in the garage, under the bed and anywhere else I could store them. So this will have to sit there patiently until I get a machine that I can run it on at some point in the future. 

I was introduced to the BeOS back with release 4 which was included as a live CD on a cover CD from PC Plus magazine and I just loved it. It was snappy on our old 200MHz Pentium and it had a mix of Windows and Mac OS. I loved the icon design especially and the yellow window title bars, but I'd like to try something older. There aren't many screenshots of the preview releases of the BeOS - which I'd like to remedy. But until I have another compatible machine it will have to wait. As will buying any other machines - what with the PC I just bought over in America...

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