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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 19 June 2010, 01:58:49

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 19 June 2010, 01:58:49

http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-6562-36U-Pentium-200-MHz-Personal-Computer-300PL-/150453454806?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307b987d6 (http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-6562-36U-Pentium-200-MHz-Personal-Computer-300PL-/150453454806?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307b987d6)

YEAH!! A P1 300PL. It even has the extra audio knobs. Now THAT is a computer.

Hurry MW, it's only $200, I'm sure all that money you saved by using salvaged computers, you can now buy this treasure.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 19 June 2010, 20:30:25

Quote from: EverythingIBM;194586

http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-6562-36U-Pentium-200-MHz-Personal-Computer-300PL-/150453454806?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307b987d6 (http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-6562-36U-Pentium-200-MHz-Personal-Computer-300PL-/150453454806?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2307b987d6)

YEAH!! A P1 300PL. It even has the extra audio knobs. Now THAT is a computer.

Hurry MW, it's only $200, I'm sure all that money you saved by using salvaged computers, you can now buy this treasure.

That's too expensive. Besides, I already have a 200Mhz Pentium computer (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=10231&page=8), and it's even better.
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11241&stc=1&d=1276887134)
And I got it for free out of a pile of junk in the supermarket parking lot.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 19 June 2010, 23:43:47

Yeah yeah, you getting it from the supermarket.

No, the 300PLs can support 384 MB of EDO RAM, have a cool headphone jack and knob at the front, and, have a matrox rainbow runner at 4 MB of memory. Uhhh... they're also more compact and are just so much more cool than "gateway".

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: Infinite north on Sun, 20 June 2010, 00:58:23

So do either of you understand how technology works? I have this idea that you don't.

(http://homedir-c.libsyn.com/podcasts/bc6d7723a311ca25cc23b1dd47597b0c/4c1daddc/kj52/images/Stuck_in_the_80s_mashup_cover.jpg)

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: Findecanor on Sun, 20 June 2010, 04:58:05

What is it that makes this old computer desirable?
Is it just the case and its capabilities?

Myself, I once cut one of these cases apart just to salvage some striped plastic for a project. I did not pay much attention to the chassis or anything else inside it.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 20 June 2010, 05:40:23

There are interesting and/or useful old computers.

The above are not examples of such.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 20 June 2010, 11:08:26

They're perfectly useful. They'll browse the web just fine.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 20 June 2010, 11:46:47

Quote from: microsoft windows;194948

They're perfectly useful. They'll browse the web just fine.

Yeah and you can use DOS stuff at the same time. It's like the ultimate computer for everything.
I got my 300GL loaded with 512 MB of RAM & windows 98 SE.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 20 June 2010, 11:57:53

My Gateway's got 64 and it runs fine. I loaded on Windows 95 and it's unfortunately the most reliable computer I have!

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 20 June 2010, 13:18:36

Quote from: microsoft windows;194948

They're perfectly useful. They'll browse the web just fine.

I can browse the internet on my phone. Probably would be quicker too.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 20 June 2010, 15:26:23

No it wouldn't. And phones have lousy web browsers and tiny screens.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 20 June 2010, 15:48:39

Oh yes it would!

(http://kburgin.typepad.com/hot_cool_blog/angry%20child.jpg)

Oh no, seriously, it would. Not running IE1 would be the first advantage of many.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: shag on Sun, 20 June 2010, 21:31:47

Quote from: EverythingIBM;194961

Yeah and you can use DOS stuff at the same time. It's like the ultimate computer for everything.
I got my 300GL loaded with 512 MB of RAM & windows 98 SE.

Buy an E Pro and be done with it - you'll have a 300GL/PL lookalike in a snazzy black case. Nobody'll notice it's horribly outdated.

:)

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 20 June 2010, 21:57:01

Quote from: shag;195085

Buy an E Pro and be done with it - you'll have a 300GL/PL lookalike in a snazzy black case. Nobody'll notice it's horribly outdated.

:)

Actually the 300PL/GL cases differed immensely (three different case types that I know of for them).
(http://kqlspa.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pPhVX3TDUiEcdTrTHBHQV5JuhVRrZOcZJOfozstEda90HSHom0WrG87n3MQb4pKwzN5bbcL-f1kwXjm3XgAq7W-ixbu-kyx5Q/300PLS.png)

Most 300GLs use case type B... but I like case type A the best because it's much easier to work with in my opinion, more space, and it just looks better.

I actually don't like my 300GL, but it works.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 21 June 2010, 04:37:08

Quote from: EverythingIBM;195088

I actually don't like my 300GL, but it works.

Butwaitlolwut? Why do you keep going on about it then?

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: InSanCen on Mon, 21 June 2010, 04:54:24

I still maintain that EIBM is the biggest troll on the forum. By far the least subtle too. It's not a faintly interesting old PC mate, it is however just ripe for shipping off to a third world country so they can strip all the metals out of it.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: kishy on Mon, 21 June 2010, 12:27:55

GL is the one he doesn't like (despite it being more commonly found in the better case).

PL is the junker and it's oddly the one he prefers.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: microsoft windows on Mon, 21 June 2010, 12:31:39

Quote from: ch_123;195021

Oh yes it would!

Show Image

(http://kburgin.typepad.com/hot_cool_blog/angry%20child.jpg)

Oh no, seriously, it would. Not running IE1 would be the first advantage of many.

Mr. Know-it-all apparently doesn't know that Windows 95 runs IE5.5...

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: kishy on Mon, 21 June 2010, 12:49:08

And you think that's a defence?

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 21 June 2010, 15:29:34

Now Kishy, he's got me there. It clearly renders everything I've said invalid.

Title: 300PL P1 (200 Mhz)
Post by: InSanCen on Mon, 21 June 2010, 17:38:19

Quote from: microsoft windows;195225

Mr. Know-it-all apparently doesn't know that Windows 95 runs IE5.5...

A freshly laid turd is still a turd.