Ok, so I ran a few more benchmarks and did some testing... I also found a couple of M209 motherboard manuals scans online. None mentions a jumper or bios setting to change the wait states. In the BIOS you can only enable parity or force turbo mode always on/off. It seems these motherboards all share …

At any rate, I'll try running a few more benchmarks among those which were posted here. The BIOS is rather basic, so I'm pretty sure there're no options to make it faster. A shame, because those 60ns SIP modules are pretty rare, but they're probably wasted here.

I was expecting somehow... better performance. The FPU particularly seems to run at 2/3 of the CPU speed. I know 287s are supposed to work like that, but I thought that later chips and most clones ran in sync with the CPU, right? The Intel 80287 requires a 33% duty cycle clock signal at its …

Unfortunately, most of the old DOS diagnostic software I have requires at least a 386 to run, so I can't check bus speed, memory transfer speed and other aspects to confirm (or disprove) my sentiment about this build. Does anybody know where I could find some older system info/benchmark software …

I gathered a few old boards and assembled a 286-20 system These are the specs: Motherboard: some "garden variety" of M209. Still has the original battery (and it works!). UMC branded chipset, AMI bios, many jumpers present on similar boards are however missing... CPU: Harris 286 20MHz FPU: IIT 2C87- …

I guess it's a clone of some Paradise PEGA card from the 1990:s. Never heard of the 'FTC computer' brand printed on the board. (While googling I only found some ebay pics of the very same board, I guess you bought it there. Slightly better pics though: https://www.ebay.com/itm/315051273348 ) Yes, …

First post here, Recently I've become a bit of nostalgic (or rather... I was getting fed up with modern software which seems written by dummies for dummies...) and I've taken out of storage my old hardware which, surprisingly, still works after 20+ yrs of inactivity. Last week, I've also purchased a …