PC720 6860 was introduced to the market together with PC750 6886 in 1995. 6860 is not  a Pentium based PC.  IBM Japan didn't  introduce  PC730  6876 in Japan but, instead of introducing PC730,  they made this unique, space-saving desktop model.  PC720 6860 is a strange * Hybrid* PC with one MCA slot,  one MCA/PCI shared slot and a ISA-ish slot for PCMCIA /A exclusively designed for this box.. 

  Type Variation
  Planar
  Service Partition
  CPU
  Jumper Blocks
  SIMM
  Hard drive interface
  CDROM
  L2 Cache.
  Small PCI
  BUS Riser Card
  Video
  PCMCIA
  PSU
 

     Type JZG was equipped with a PS/55 Display Adapter /NI-J and DOS J5.02Z ( JDOS ) . 
     Model 6869  is an  ISA version of  PC720. 
     Model 6863( also ISA ) is  named as "PC720" but it's a Pentium machine with P-100.
     6863 uses same planar with PC750 model 6883 ( probably sold only in Japan,  planar is 
     different from that of  6885/6886 or 6887 ). 

Service Partition
6860 is not an IML machine but it does support service partition ( reference partition ? ). 
My 6860 takes long time till set-configuration page comes on the screen when I boot the system  with the Reference Diskette. It stays quiet while it reads configuration files as if the system halt.  But from service partition stored in hard drive it goes straight into configuration menu. 

CPU 
Planar can take a DX2-66, DX4-100 or  PODP5V83. 
No interposer required to use 3.3V CPU's . 
In order to use PODP,  BIOS should be updated to KOJT66JP.  See below. 

   PODP( & Win95)
    PODP Support Diskettes Kit is consisted in 3 programs. 
      #1. 6860ref.LZH   ;     Reference Diskette Ver. 1.10 
      #2. 6860diag.LZH ;     Diagnostic Diskette  Ver 1.11 
      #3. PC720SP.LZH ;   System ROM update utility Ver. 1.10A (KOJT66JP) 

     note 
     Win95 support program, win95serv0.exe, is not for 6860 but for 6863/6869 and other ISA 
     models.  32bit PCMCIA driver contained in this archived file is not usable on 6860.  It's for 
     6863/6869 (and  it may be for Win95A ). 
 

Jumper Blocks
    J55 ; Voltage select 
    For 5V CPU   ;  Close  2x3 jumper blocks near to the PSU connector. 
    For 3.3V CPU:  Close  2x3 jumper blocks near to the CPU socket. 

    J14 ; CPU select
    For 486DX  ;  set jumper plug on 2-3  ( default ) 
    For 486SX  ;  set jumper plug on 1-2 

  Other Jumper Blocks
    J19 : purpose unknown. default  is 1-2 closed. 
    J50:  Output frequency select for programmable IC ?  1-2 /50,  2-3/60 
    J51-J54;  Default setting for these jumpers are  all 1-2 closed. 

SIMM
Planar takes 4, 8,16, 32MB, 70ns, FP, parity modules. 

Hard drive interface
Only one IDE channel is provided. There are solder pads for 2nd IDE channel on the planar. 
Even if the 2nd channel can be activated there is no room for 3rd IDE drive. 
The drive interface is EIDE and it can handle drives larger than 524MB. 
Now I'm using a 2.4G drive.  Once tested  a Seagate 8G drive but it couldn't detect the drive 
 ( It could read and write a Seagate 6.4G drive with 15heads.  I once used it ).

   Hard drive  runs in  MS-DOS compatibility mode under Win95. 
   Win95 will load  "standard IDE/ESDI hard disk controller" with configuration #1 which has 
   IRQ value fixed to 15. 
   Change the configuration to #0 which has IRQ 14,  all drives  will work properly. 

CDROM
A genuine optional 2x speed CDROM ( yo can see it in the picture at the top of this page ) is 
# 85G7285.    I have a 4x slim drive for Toshiba laptops. 

L2 Cache.
Same socket as 9577i or 9585 is used. 
L2 cache module is P/N 85G4865  "128KB L2 SUPER CACHE".  This module can be used  for
M70/80 PowerBoard.  To say the truce I bought my 1st 6860 in order to get a cache module in it.
DX2-66 model does not have a L2 cache socket. 

                  L2 supercache 

Small PCI

  I have not ever seen this type of connector in any other PCs including AT clones. 
  IBM Japan made only 2 adapters for this interface. 

  1)  SFF PCI Ethernet card    ;   C/R 85G4854    equipped in 6860-J08 
  2)  SFF PCI TokenRing card ;   C/R      ?          equipped in 6860-J04.  I want to see it!

     Small PCI connector 

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BUS Riser Card
   All models other than JZG use same Riser Card which has PCI /MCA shared slot x1,  MCA 
slot x1  and  one ISA style slot for 2Slot PCMCIA/A ( P/N  54G0547 ).  Riser Card  for JZG 
dosen't have a PCI slot but it has one more MCA BUS slot for PS/55 Display Adapter /J which 
locates under connector J6 ( opposite side of  PCI slot J5).  I'm not sure but probably J1 is  for
Enable/Disable selector for PS/55 display adapter. 
Outline below is the one for models other than -JZG. 

 

Video S3 Vision 864
S3 Vision 864 1MB (  2MB for J4G model ). 
Win95 recognize the chip with it's built-in driver. 

JZG model doesn't use onboard S3 Vision but use a PS/55 DBCS Display Adapter/NI-J together
with pre-installed DOS J5.02/Z ( specialized DOS J5.02 for this model ). 

PCMCIA 
2 slot PCMCIA /A with ISA style connector is equipped in all models. ISA models ( 6869 and 6883)  also use same adapter. Win95 built in driver can't handle this adapter properly on MCA models but the very same adapter installed in ISA models can be used without any problem under  Win95B or Win98. 
I tested a driver for Win3.1 " PC Card Director"  on my 6860-J4G and I found it could handle
modem card.  I've been using a 28.8Kb  Double Jack Modem Card under Win95B. 
PCMCIA device is not seen under system>control panel>device manager but the card securely 
detected in PC Card Director.  I don't know if other cards such as  NICs  or SCSI PCMCIA can
be used. 

PSU
    Max power consumption      ;  70W
    Regular power consumption ;  40W. 

6860 has very unique PSU.  Cooling fan will slow down running if the total system power is lower than 50W,  and will stop to work  lower than 30W.  Thus the cooling fan usually stays idle. When I got a 6860 ( second  handed as usual ) I immediately noticed that the fan didn't work at all. As I didn't know this unique feature I thought there would be some defects on the circuit board of  the PSU.  I disassembled PSU and soldered 12V line directly to the fan assembly.  Latter on I was advised  above unique function.  The jumper wire is still there.  Some machine have input AC voltage selector.   Well,  mine has a  "fan mode selector";  summer mode with direct connection and winter mode with original connection. 

Mine works fine under DOS. But under Win95B it usually freeze at start up after Win95 logo 
appears on the screen.  I solved this symptom modifying MSDOS.SYS to have a start up menu with default boot for Win95 after 60 seconds of delay time to boot.  Maybe mine needs some intervals for stable DC output for planar, a hard drive and a CDROM.  I'm sure that this symptom is not  related to above fan cable modification 'cause I have same problem when I  switch back to original cable connection .