Well, I just powered up one of my finds this weekend. It's a Franklin Ace
1200, the amazing thing is I got it from Goodwill, and it came with a box
of floppies, the CBASIC reference manual, and a monitor all for $14.95.
Not only is it the best deal I've seen at Goodwill, but it's also the first
complete system I've seen there.
It actually has CPM 2.2 and some other software so I've finally got a fully
functional CPM system besides the Commodore 128. Now what I'm wondering
about is the character set. It looks really wierd, and has me wondering if
there isn't some sort of problem with the video board. The best example is
a capital B which looks like this
*******
* *
* *
*******
* *
* *
*******
This is just one of the wierd looking characters this systems displays.
On the other hand when it's acting like an Apple ][ with a 40 column
display it seems to have a normal character set.
Overall it seems to be a pretty nice system. When I picked it up I thought
it was just a simple Apple ][ clone. It's ability to run CPM and having
the original CPM disks was a really great plus.
Zane
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
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Received on Sun Nov 02 1997 - 21:24:25 GMT