Warm piece of crap. IBM 300GL PII400 64MB 4GB CD Vid Desktop $64.95

biggiesmallz · Apr 27, 2003

For those who want a cheap Linux learner system or whatever.

Refurbished IBM 300GL desktop includes an Intel Pentium II 400MHz slot1 processor, 64MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, on board S3Trio 3D video, and a 1.44MB floppy drive all pre-installed in a desktop case

linky

Johneverd · Apr 27, 2003

$9 FedEx shipping to CA. Not bad..

RobCur · Apr 27, 2003

worthless, and onboard vga makes thing even slower

Walleye · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
For those who want a cheap Linux learner system or whatever.

Refurbished IBM 300GL desktop includes an Intel Pentium II 400MHz slot1 processor, 64MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, on board S3Trio 3D video, and a 1.44MB floppy drive all pre-installed in a desktop case

linky

buy 20 and then it becomes awesome, as you link those suckers together, and you have a pretty cool beowulf cluster.

mindless1 · Apr 27, 2003

You can also get the gutted version of this at Package2You for $18.

Silex · Apr 27, 2003

What do you mean exactly? I didn't know you could "chain" computers together and have their poerformances add-up? And I know everything! Well nto quite, but you get the idea .

dlaw · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: RobCur
worthless, and onboard vga makes thing even slower

This is called thread crapping, and it isn't nice.

I think it is a good deal if you need a cheap computer. It would be nice for a firewall kinda machine.

dlaw · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: Silex
What do you mean exactly? I didn't know you could "chain" computers together and have their poerformances add-up? And I know everything! Well nto quite, but you get the idea .

Kinda, you distribute out your calculations to the computers in your cluster, so that your job can be done quicker. Of course, it is easier said than done.

kenja · Apr 27, 2003

"This is called thread crapping, and it isn't nice."

Agreed. Jeesh, biggiesmallz takes a preemptive crap in the title, for gosh sakes!

Perknose · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: dlaw

Originally posted by: RobCur worthless, and onboard vga makes thing even slower

Click to expand...

This is called thread crapping, and it isn't nice. I think it is a good deal if you need a cheap computer. It would be nice for a firewall kinda machine.

Decent site, as well:

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. . . Amongst a host of other similarly priced deals, all with non-outrageous shipping and no rebate hell, as well -- thanks, biggiesmallz! 

azoomee · Apr 27, 2003

The title cracks me up

Dran · Apr 27, 2003

Lots of potential. If I didn't already have my place AND my best friend's place crammed with parts, I'd pick one up, toss in an extra HDD or two and a good sound card, and paint it black. Bingo, set-top mp3 player. I've built 3 so far, the for the last one I didn't even bother with a keyboard or mouse, used a remote instead.

toant103 · Apr 27, 2003

not a bad deal.

tsl99 · Apr 27, 2003

Remember, 2350 is sub-200 at eBay those days......

cmv · Apr 27, 2003

Not bad at all but I wish it had an AGP slot. I'd send my friends who need a computer this link and toss in a Matrox G200 and some more memory. Plenty of PCI video cards out there but...

kenja · Apr 27, 2003

Memory goes up to 3 x 128MB, per crucial.

Buddha Bart · Apr 27, 2003

I was still using one of these at work as a test-linux machine up until about 3 months ago. Thats an awesome machine if you want a home gateway/firewall/webserver linux setup. I can attest that Slack 8 and Redhat 7.3 both work on it fine (just don't run X).

bart

dlaw · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: tsl99
Remember, 2350 is sub-200 at eBay those days......

That's a valid arguement... but if the machine is powerful enough for what you will do with it then it is 1/3 of $200.

scdill · Apr 27, 2003

Anyone know if the motherboard and ps or ps connector are true ATX? No room for a desktop but I have a cheap mini tower case going to waste. If I could move the innards over ...

k000 · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: azoomee
The title cracks me up

I thought every piece of .... is warm ! Well.. never tested... but that's just what I feel !

vetteguy · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: Johneverd
$9 FedEx shipping to CA. Not bad..

Cheapest shipping to MI is $20...

3point14 · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by: Walleye

Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
For those who want a cheap Linux learner system or whatever.

Refurbished IBM 300GL desktop includes an Intel Pentium II 400MHz slot1 processor, 64MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, on board S3Trio 3D video, and a 1.44MB floppy drive all pre-installed in a desktop case

linky

Click to expand...

buy 20 and then it becomes awesome, as you link those suckers together, and you have a pretty cool beowulf cluster.

My school did this with some IBMs and it turned out better than we thought it would. I wonder how many schools are doing these "beowulf" setups nowadays?

Fritzo · Apr 27, 2003

This is a pretty good deal. We have these PC's at work. For another $50 you can have a great file server (need bigger HD and 64 MB more ram), or add a modem and you have a good internet PC for mom, or run a web server off of it, there's lots of things you could do with this!

I like some people's idea that if you can't run Freelancer on it, it's worthless

Scottee · Apr 27, 2003

Haha, you guys are funny, making fun of PII-400's. That's still my normal desktop! Or, was. Now I've got my roommate's old PIII-450 processor. But it's good to know that the value of my computer is now under $100.

Lanyap · Apr 27, 2003

This is a nice deal for $65 considering what you get. We used to have a bunch of these at work but they went off lease last year. They were ok but not great. A lot of the internals are proprietary, the motherboard slides into the PCI card riser instead of the other way around, the case top is kinda flimsy and the PSUs were only about 155W IIRC. If you get one of these be sure to take it apart, clean it up and put it back together making sure all of the connections are tight. It's a grade B so it might not be in good shape when you get it. It should run ok as a file server, kids PC, grandma's PC, etc. No offense Scottee

Hehe, talking about the PSU reminds of the current workstation I have. It's an IBM P4 2Ghz but it has a 185W PSU.

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