md@ncsu.UUCP ( ) (06/29/84)
The legal and moral questions about Franklin computers aside I would like to say that the Franklin computer has some features that EVERY Apple owner should have. (I have a ][+ my dad has a Franklin.) I am talking about Franklin's version of FID (called FUD). Anyone that uses FID has to know how frustrating it is, can't remember the numbers for the functions (1 copy, 2 catalog, etc). FUD uses letters c for copy, s for show files, etc. FID has a bad habit of asking for slot and drive numbers every time you go from copy to catalog, FUD has defaults for slot and drive for all of the options, there is no reset slot and drive feature on FUD, and there is no space on disk feature, it is given after every catalog. FID puts you back to the main menu after each function, FUD asks you if there is another file you would like to perform that function on before returning you to the main menu, this even holds true for I/O errors when VERIFYing an entire disk. FUD has the Master Create program as a function, I know that this is outdated but wait, with FUD's master create you can specify the file type to be executed at boot time, Basic, Binary, or Exec!! Hope I have convinced some of you that FUD is a must have, only one (and that's it!) complaint, copying a locked file from disk 'A' to disk 'B' will result in the file on disk 'B' being unlocked. Mike Davis
piggott@bnl.UUCP (Christopher Piggott) (07/01/84)
<-------------------------------------> Well, it's true....Franklin has declared chapter 11...At this time hopes for re- organization are not clear, but the gen- eral opinion is against it's probability. Once again, the Apple Company who made better apples than Apple Computer itself did has declared bankbrutcy (sp)... Franklin Aces 1200 and 1000 were great (ARE great) computers, and it's not the business world's fault that they buckled. Now it looks more like they helped to flood the personal computer market just a little bit more than it is already. We'll miss you, Franklin.... Comments are more than welcome...