OK, there seems to be a certain interest in running some benchmarks.
Back in 1977 Kilobaud published a set of BASIC benchmark programs and
the following year PCW (in the UK) updated them. I have put up a set of
pages at :
http://www.aconit.org/hbp/BasicBench/ based on a 1982 PCW
article. There is also a submission form if you want to measure your
system(s).
-- hbp