New find - Franklin ACE 100 (not 1000)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Jun 17 20:26:36 2001

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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