IBM 300GL NO HD, 64MB, for $167--lukewarm deal

[unclebud]

over at t(edit).com, i noticed this ibm 300GL, it has no hd, but shoot--we can get 45 gigs for $100 nowadays! for somebody looking for expandibility while remaining competitive--i may be misreading it, but this motherboard can take a agp card rite? it's IBM, yo! ugly computer cases you gotta love... also going to do some research on this FLEX machine under it.
edit: i agreed with mburns post earlier a little bit, and would like to say that i know nothing about how to search for a cheaper price than this--i'm a brick-and-mortar man myself...

 

[gold-fly]

IBM PC's are the worst piece of crap ever!!!

They are buggy and unstable. Especially the GL's. Followed closely by the PL's.

Buy something else. Save yourself the trouble.

EDIT

And besides that, no, it won't have an AGP slot. The video is built in.

These things are crappy crappo crapola crap.

 

[Atrac]

I don't know....I can't figure out what t(edit).com is. That's a bit too cryptic for me.

techbar(edit).com ???

 

[ScAndal]

link?

ScAndal

 

[DanStp]

No these are usually good machines......but not for gaming. You can't replace the video with a standard AGP card.....due to how non standared the chasis is BTW I have generated over 12,000 SETI work units on machines like these. So they can't be that unstable, SETI uses the processor at 100% continously.

 

[Gunbuster]

DanStp is right you need a flex ATX AGP card
(has a cutout under the video port to the MB slots: Ps2, printer, usb ... will fit under it)

ELSA makes a nvida someting card that will work. I dont know of any others.

 

[DanStp]

Where is this deal at a link please?

 

[dirtboy]

I've got one of these at work, nice machine. What's the link for this, I think I may need to pick one of these up.

 

[stonerdave]

The link is techbargains_com (replace the _ with a .) The forums won't let you link there, just like you can't say ebeigh.

Well, that's the site, I couldn't find it.

 

[philby]

Link please? Anyone?

 

[ScAndal]

unclebud,
where on tech_barg...com is this deal? I searched everywhere?

ScAndal

 

[dirtboy]

I found it.

PC300GL

 

[gold-fly]

Hey, if all you want is some number crunching, maybe this piece of garbage will work for you. But at my company, we have more than 100 of these things and they have a 10% failure rate within 1 year(various components - several motherboard failures.)

If you really want to run some programs, forget it! And the GLs are the worst. At one point we were running an terminal emulation, and when a user would kick it in, it would lock the mouse and start cranking up the virtual memory until it filled the hard drive and died. Didn't happen on any other machines than the GL. What a pain.

I think my boss was getting kickbacks from our supplier, cause whenever I started talking about what giant pieces of puke these boxes are, she just didn't want to hear it.

If you get/got it and it works for you, great! But my advice is to stay away.

Oh yeah, not to mention the stupid support CD that requires you to make floppies to get the driver you need.

IBM 300 series PC's are the reason they invented steamrollers.....

 

[Breaker78]

<< Gold fly: They are buggy and unstable. Especially the GL's. Followed closely by the PL's. >>



I find this Hillarious!!!!

I work for the IT department for a fortune 500 company, and not only is the IBM300PL the standard we use for all 700 of our office pc's on my site, its the standard for the entire company worldwide.

On top of that, we throw in a scsi card and a few scsi disks and we use them as servers running NT 4.0 server. Everything from primary domain controller to fileserver to remote access server.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

 

[Atrac]

Yeah, but did anyone notice that the site says &quot;Call&quot; for everything. In other words, you can't buy it online.

I'm predicting that this is a dead deal!

 

[gold-fly]

Breaker,

I'm astounded. Tell me about your failure rate.

Now NT might be another matter. I ran one of these with NT and it seemed to perform fairly well. The boxes we were having software trouble on were running 95.

But still, tons of hardware failure. And it always takes AT LEAST two trips by their techs to get anything fixed.

I still think they're crap.