Re: Power supply brick for Franklin ACE 500

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

who@where.what (Bart) wrote in message news:<hQXx8.42$Sm3.53614@news.uswest.net>...
> I have never seen a Franklin 500.  I have a 1000 and 2 1200s but no 500.  Is 
> this a Franklin //c? that is their flavor of like the Laser 128?  
> Lasers used the exact same Brick-on-a-Leash that the //c did.  Or, is this a 
> varriant with a weird power supply?

I had one of these for my first computer. Yeah, they were an awful lot
like a //c, but had a couple of drawbacks, since it wasn't an actual
Apple computer. I couldn't run a lot of software on it, including
integer. Man, I was REALLY irked when I found out I couldn't run
Ultima on it! I also found out that there was some sort of limit on
the serial port. I couldn't get the modem to run any faster than 1200
bps without getting garbage characters. It was a really cool looking
machine, though. I gave it to someone here for the cost of shipping,
which I never got. :-( Sometimes I regret having gotten rid of it, but
I'm pretty sure it's gone to a good home.


Ralph Glatt