Re: franklin ace 500 power supply pinout?

["Robert Collet" <collet@worldnet.att.net>]

Thanks a ton. I really appreciate it. I read some of your older posts about
the 500, and you mentioned a boot disk. would you happen to have a .dsk
image of it handy, or will most of my IIe programs work without it? again,
thanks.
Ralph Glatt <mairsil@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <7qrf6k$20s$1@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>,
>   "Robert Collet" <collet@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I just bought a franklin ace 500 (which as I understand it is a
> IIc
> > clone), but the thing didnt come with a power supply. I searched the
> entire
> > store but couldnt find the stupid thing (Although I did find a Hitachi
> video
> > disk player for five bucks). Anyway, does anybody know the pinout and
> the
> > voltage so I could build my own?  the adapter is a 7 pin male DIN
> plug.
> > Also, does anybody have any interesting info on it? I understand it
> has
> > twice the memory of a IIc, but does it have any other special features
> (does
> > it have a cp/m card in it like the 1200?) thanks in advance.
>
> Give me some time to dig out the books I got when I bought mine, and
> I'll be able to get you the pinouts. Nice features of the ACE 500 is
> apparent - programmable function keys, and a numeric keypad added to the
>  keyboard. (Personally, I like its look better than the file://c as well.)
> The only irritating thing about it is that uses floating point basic
> instead of integer, so not all Apple // software works on it. Oh, it is
> also capable of using IBM printers and monitors as well as Apple. I'll
> have to give you the switch configurations for that as well.
>
>
> Ralph Glatt
>
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