Re: Franklin Ace 500 serial port - SSC compatible?

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Mar 10, 6:31 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 2, 9:40 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> >> I have one on its way to me now, so hopefully I'll learn more soon.
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> > Ok, the '500 arrived today.  ADTPro decides that there's a SSC in both
> > slots 1 and 2 (even though slot 1 is actually a parallel port).  I'll
> > see if I can make a better determination about that.  But anyway...
> > once I switched to SSC slot 2, it ran like a champ at 115.2k.  So it
> > looks like the Franklin ACE 500 is completely compatible with the SSC
> > at the hardware level.
>
> In that case, the Apple IIc must also be SSC compatible, being the
> Franklin Ace 500 manual says that it is Apple IIc compatible, for
> reference see Page 10-4 below the picture. Even the connector matches.

The Apple IIc is also SSC compatible at the hardware level.  But, the
Laser 128, which also claims "IIc compatiblity," is not - it is only
compatible at the firmware level.  Even though it has the same
connector.  So, as I mentioned earlier in the thread... just because
the manual says it's compatible with the IIc (as both the Laser and
Franklin do) that doesn't necessarily tell you the whole story.