Re: Franklin Ace 2200 key board plus other questions

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obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>I also would like to know if any one knows if this computer has any built in
>acceleration (like the Laser 128/EX).
>
>I don't remember anything in the manual about built-in acceleration, or even
>using it with a transwarp card or zip chip.  The last two would probably work
>with it however.

I would just like to add that the Laser 128EX and Laser 128EX/2 don't
have accelerators built in like the IIc+.  They simply run faster.  The
entire motherboard runs faster.  I don't call that acceleration.  The faster
speed is the Laser's native speed.  In a computer like the Apple IIc+,
however, the motherboard runs at 1Mhz, then Apple put in the
equivalent of a ZipChip (except spread over several chips) which is
a caching accelerator.

Both the Lasers and the Apple run faster than a IIe, but only the Apple
really has an accelerator.  ;-)

>A word of warning about compatibility with Apple II software:
>
>	Unlike the Franklin Ace 1000, MECC educational programs
>refuse to run on the Franklin Ace 2200, so there may be others.  Never
>assume that the disk is damaged until you try the program out on a real
>Apple II computer.

The reason the 2200 is less compatible is because it was built as
a true compatible with reversed engineered compatible ROMs.
The 1000 was a complete rip off of the Apple II+.  That's why
Franklin got its but kicked when it was making the 1000.