I Can See My IBM Clearly Now

[TheNeil]

Picked up a 14" Apple monitor yesterday but got a bit of a surprise when the woman I was picking up from asked whether 'that beige box' is any use to me?

'That beige box' is an IBM 300GL desktop PC. I said yes and she explained that 'someone' had told her that the motherboard was broken. Well I'm sat here next to it and it's booting fine

So not only a nice monitor (which proved that my recebtly liberated Quadra 840 is running fine) but also a free 166MHz Pentium with 32Mb RAM, a 6Gb HD, CD-ROM, modem and USB onboard. I consider that to be a more than successful rescue mission

 

[LCGuy]

Nice haul

 

[Christopher]

Indeed!

 

[gobabushka]

sounds like a good linux box, just put in a pentium mmx 233

 

[MacMan]

Quite often the "it's broken" excuse is used for machines that are simply old and out-dated. I've had this many times before and almost always the machines are absolutely fine, or it's something simple like a bad RAM chip.

 

[TheNeil]

Hard drive went belly up yesterday (damaged sectors, refused to 'verify' under Win98's installer - yawn) but as it's good old IDE, there's a stack of them on my shelf so replacement part not a problem. I'll probably also up the memory a bit but what I do with it after that...hmmm

Any ideas anyone?