Re: Apple Computers-collector's items?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4u3865$tl7@tom.amherst.edu>,
Nudnick T. Furd <adcarnev@unix.amherst.edu> wrote:
>How about the Franklin Ace 1000, a clone of the II+, which used illegally-
>copied ROMs and which Apple eventually killed? They worth anything?

   Probably about the same as a ][+, which might fetch $50 if in good
condition with a lot of software and maybe a printer. [They were also
fairly common, not some limited run of x thousand (x<3)]

>Oh, and does anyone know if the "Franklin" line of pocket dictionaries etc.
>are by the same Franklin?

   I think so. After Apple nailed them to the wall for pirating, I
think they wised up and went on to more original things.

Nathan Mates
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