The dual-PowerPC BeBox[1] I bought with savings from my campus job in college was the machine that made me "fall in love" with computers. At the time I was so

The dual-PowerPC BeBox[1] I bought with savings from my campus job in college was the machine that made me "fall in love" with computers. At the time I was so incredibly jazzed that I didn't need to "telnet" to the campus workstations to complete my Unix-based programming projects, since there was a full standard Unix API and an IDE (CodeWarrior IIRC) came with the machine. And compared to any other computer, the UI was mind-blowingly responsive under multitasking. It was also the platform I used for my first side-project (a graphical IMAP email client). I thought I was quite the tech rebel at the time, thinking I was onboard the nascent stages of this OS, but it seems that by the time I became a devotee, it had already suffered a major internal setback with the AT&T deprecation of the Hobbit CPU. I had always assumed (mistakenly) that they switched to PowerPC because it was "better". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox