Franklin (Apple II clone) highly modified.

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by Andrew Grygus

11/20/04 2:02:27 PM

Franklin (Apple II clone) highly modified.

I built up this machine (a duplicate of my home computer) to use in production cost estimating. It had an 80 column card, 2-MHz Z80 card and Vista controller with two 8" DSDD floppy drives (1.2-Meg each). It ran CP/M-80 and the software was Perfect Writer (derived from Mince (Mince Is Not Complete EMACS) and Scribble), SuperCalc spreadsheet and Turbo Pascal.

The only other computers in the company at the time were an IBM System 34, and Engineering had a Terrac running the UCSD Pascal operating system. They fiddled with it a lot but I'm not sure they ever got it to do anything useful.

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