This morning I’m headed down to Menlo Park, where I worked for three years at Be Incorporated.
It’s been over two years since I left Be, and in the time that’s passed, so has Be. Today they’re just another victim of the economic downturn, and their assets are being auctioned off.
I was at Be during some of the most exciting times, including the first public release of the BeOS, being invested in by Intel, and the public offering.
Be was a special place to work, and BeOS is still unmatched by any other operating system in some areas of functionality and technology. Be, the BeBox, and BeOS have a place in computing history, and it’s a tragedy that it will be as curiosities, evolutionary dead ends, rather than as an important turning point in the computer industry.
I’m headed down to Menlo Park to collect my piece of that history. Some momento of what it was like to work there, what it meant to me, what the company accomplished.
I’m taking the credit card. Don’t tell my wife.