Re: Franklin Ace

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.970210082844.25703F-100000@lo-pan>, 
croton@ridgecrest.ca.us says...

>Does the Franklin require a special boot disk to enable it to run Apple 
>Software? If so, does anyone out there have a copy I could get? Is it 
>worth messing with?

Depends on what you mean by "Apple software."

There were several models of the Franklin ACE, but they'd boot a standard DOS 
3.3 disk.

ProDOS, on the other hand, required a hack (the details of which escape me; it 
was so very long ago. . . ).  

Anyway, the Franklin ACE 1000 and ACE 1200 were solid machines, but didn't 
support the //e RAM and video standards; they were essentially ][+ clones with 
lower case, expanded keyboards, built-in language cards, etc.  (Really old ACE 
1000s needed a color card to support color.)  I am less familiar with the 
post-lawsuit Franklins (such as the IBM-clone-ish-looking ACE 2000) but my 
understanding was they were not as compatible.
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