Replaced ANOTHER dead Dallas 1287 realtime clock module. This time, it's on some weird little compact 286 motherboard that fought me to remove the dead module. Fortunately, installing a socket was easy enough after the dead module was pulled. I went with a Glitchworks device, because I like being able to swap the on board battery as needed without additional soldering.
This BIOS has a really sophisticated on-board diagnostics suite in addition to the usual configuration options, and fortunately settings now persist between reboots. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to want to boot from the floppy drive I presented to it, despite that floppy drive passing diagnostics. I want to see if I can augment this thing with a bus expansion stack and various add-on cards since it's really a bare-bones embedded design.
