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Brian H
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Apart from the unrecognized branding on the CPU (ceramic; upper-right in photo) chip, this appears to be a bog standard ISA '386 motherboard, probably running at 25 MHz.

  • CPU looks like the right packaging for a 80386
  • Empty 80387 FPU socket
  • Quadtel "386" BIOS with appropriate late-80s Copyright
  • 50.0MHz oscillator adjacent to CPU; usually provided 2x the CPU clock
  • Typical VIA chipset

Of course, normal Intel or AMD branding on the CPU chip would make it obvious. I'd be concerned about the provenance of the CPU that is installed.

Apart from the unrecognized branding on the CPU chip, this appears to be a bog standard ISA '386 motherboard, probably running at 25 MHz.

  • CPU looks like the right packaging for a 80386
  • Empty 80387 FPU socket
  • Quadtel "386" BIOS with appropriate late-80s Copyright
  • 50.0MHz oscillator adjacent to CPU; usually provided 2x the CPU clock
  • Typical VIA chipset

Of course, normal Intel or AMD branding on the CPU chip would make it obvious. I'd be concerned about the provenance of the CPU that is installed.

Apart from the unrecognized branding on the CPU (ceramic; upper-right in photo) chip, this appears to be a bog standard ISA '386 motherboard, probably running at 25 MHz.

  • CPU looks like the right packaging for a 80386
  • Empty 80387 FPU socket
  • Quadtel "386" BIOS with appropriate late-80s Copyright
  • 50.0MHz oscillator adjacent to CPU; usually provided 2x the CPU clock
  • Typical VIA chipset

Of course, normal Intel or AMD branding on the CPU chip would make it obvious. I'd be concerned about the provenance of the CPU that is installed.

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Brian H
  • 61.5k
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  • 366

Apart from the unrecognized branding on the CPU chip, this appears to be a bog standard ISA '386 motherboard, probably running at 25 MHz.

  • CPU looks like the right packaging for a 80386
  • Empty 80387 FPU socket
  • Quadtel "386" BIOS with appropriate late-80s Copyright
  • 50.0MHz oscillator adjacent to CPU; usually provided 2x the CPU clock
  • Typical VIA chipset

Of course, normal Intel or AMD branding on the CPU chip would make it obvious. I'd be concerned about the provenance of the CPU that is installed.