17 Jun
2001
17 Jun
'01
1:26 p.m.
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Bob Stek wrote:
Now I am not much of an Apple collector (though
I'd pick up an Apple I
if I saw it cheap!), but I did find a Franklin ACE 100. This is the
machine which Apple sued Franklin over regarding their directly copying
the Apple ROMs (changing only the power on message). IIRC, Franklin
admitted the copying, saying that Apple's ROMs were too difficult to
reverse-engineer easily!
It looks like a bigger, uglier Franklin ACE 1000. Does anyone else have
one of these beasties?
Have you got a picture? Or at least dimensions? I have a 1000 and it
already looks big and ugly (compared to an Apple ][). Does the label on
the cover say "100"?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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