Re: Power supply brick for Franklin ACE 500

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Ralph Glatt wrote:

>I had one of these for my first computer. Yeah, they were an awful lot
>like a //c, but had a couple of drawbacks, since it wasn't an actual
>Apple computer. I couldn't run a lot of software on it, including
>integer. Man, I was REALLY irked when I found out I couldn't run
>Ultima on it! I also found out that there was some sort of limit on
>the serial port. I couldn't get the modem to run any faster than 1200
>bps without getting garbage characters. It was a really cool looking
>machine, though. <snip>

The serial speed issue is curious, since the original //c had a very
similar (same?) problem, related to deriving an imprecise serial
clock from the CPU clock.

-michael

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