Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Feb 22, 4:44 am, sicklittlemonkey <nick.westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 4:19 pm, "Ralph E. Dodd" <red...@TAKETHISOUTcomcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > I have a Franklin Ace 500 and I was wondering if the serial port is super
> > serial card compatible so it can be used with ADT.  TIA.
>
> > Ralph
>
> It seems to be //c compatible, and the original ADT should work.
> Hence ADTPro should also work, but if it doesn't then send an email to
> David and I'm sure he'd be happy to look into it.
>
> The user manual is here:www.apple-iigs.info/doc/fichiers/ace500.pdf

Thanks, Nick.  In reading the manual, I learned that we're no better
off than what we learned from the Laser 128 manual: there's no mention
of the hardware-level interface.  They say that it's IIc-compatible,
and go into detail about the firmware.  So we know it's at least
firmware-compatible... which doesn't actually help that much.  And a
little Googling didn't turn up anything more useful than the user's
manual.

So, Ralph, there's nothing left to do but to test it.  Build or get
yourself a cable with the pinout described here:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.html#DIN5
and give it a try.  One of two things are likely to work: either it's
like an SSC down to the hardware, and you can set the ADT or ADTPro
client to slot 2 SSC.  Or, if that fails, try the Laser 128 setting -
that talks to the firmware instead of hardware, but is limited to
19.2kbps.  I've only had one other person ask about a Franklin Ace
500, and that was back in 2007 - I never heard back how it went.