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From: galyen@scicom.UUCP (Robert Galyen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Franklin FDOS
Message-ID: <510@scicom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 00:17:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: scicom.510
Posted: Mon Jun  9 00:17:04 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jun-86 01:17:02 EDT
References: <209@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: Electrum Resources
Lines: 25
Keywords: FDOS, Ace1000, Apple 2
Summary: APPLE/FRANKLIN USER GROUPS

In article <209@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> 
> 	The problem is that FDOS works o.k. on an Apple with 64K of
> memory for reading, but not writing to disk.  FDOS wipes out the
> catalog when attempting a SAVE/BSAVE on an Apple.  I wonder if the
> Franklin LSI controller chip has something magic inside that is
> different?
> 
> 	Anybody have any experiences or care to comment?  The
> Ace-1000 really was't a bad knock-off of an Apple, provided that
> you got one that didn't have the ROM-less soft-boot version.  We
> had a soft-boot that never would actually boot, so we de-kludged it
> and put copies of the original ROMs back in, and all was fine.
> 
There are a number of Apple/Franklin user groups that could probably help with
your problem.  A few that come to mind are M.A.U.G. on CompuServe, Franklin
Users Group Int'l (417/869-5294 modem), and Aces High (303/329-6579 modem).

Good luck

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