I am not familiar enough with both machines to make a judjement on which one
is better but the franklin display some features that seem interesting:
apple dos 3.3 compatibility, floating point basic, apparently could run CP/M
or Pascal (OS?)(not much info on that), programmable function keysimpressive
display capabilities (16 colors at 560 x 192), built in parallel and serial
interfaces and memory expandable up to 576K.
Compare that to the Apple IIe or IIc. The memory extension and RGB interface
cards are optional (128K and 80 column color?)
It's hard to tell what the exact caracteristics are the users manual keep
refering to the technical manual that I don't have.
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Franklin Ace 2100
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>Better means any feature that would bias one towards one computer
>versus another. Did it include a z80, by any chance? On the back
>of this machine, there were some slot covers; did it take standard
>apple cards?
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>>I haven't tasted them yet ;)
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>>I don't really know yet. I would believe that they added some features
>but
>>how would you define "better", more reliable, faster, bigger software
>>library?
>>All I can do is look at the specs and compare the two.
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>>Francois
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