[AT] OT - computer advice

[Cecil R Bearden]

I bought a Franklin when they came out with the upgraded version.  
Franklin had uppercase letters where Apple did not.  We bought a 
Franklin when IBM stated they would never get into the personal computer 
market.  I never forgave them and never owned an IBM..   After 2 years 
my Franklin had EEprom problems and Aoole had sued them and won so I had 
a $2000 boat anchor along with a wide carriage tractor feed printer that 
was useless.    $ a little over $3000 at the time when I was barely 
making $900 a month...     I did not forgive Apple either...

I wish I had the money I have invested in computers over the years.  I 
could have bought a really nice tractor...

Cecil in OKla



On 8/7/2014 12:02 PM, David Bruce wrote:
> I remember that company but never saw one of their machines. As
> mentioned earlier Tandy did a good job with the small/medium business in
> Spartanburg, SC. A friend of mine worked for a nearby textile spinning
> mill and he used several Tandy machines to collect data from the
> spinning machines. In keeping with the times he also wrote the software
> needed for that. My company was much larger and was an all IBM shop.
> Mainframe systems of course but eventually PC-XT models showed up in
> places where being on the network was not needed as much. Lotus 123 and
> Dbase III were our stock in trade. Also Wordstar then to MS Office.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
>
> On 8/7/2014 11:33 AM, Dan Glass wrote:
>> I seem to remember a computer company by the name of Franklin that
>> pushed business computers.  Most small businesses that got a business
>> computer at that time got Franklins.  They must have gone out of business.
>> On 8/7/2014 10:21 AM, Steve W. wrote:
>>> David Bruce wrote:
>>>> My experience differs - might be the local store people but in
>>>> Spartanburg, SC there was strong business support. Large business no as
>>>> that was locked up by IBM mainframe people but with small/medium
>>>> business it was good. TRS MII and TRS MII.
>>>> The Coco was a consumer product totally.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>> NW NC
>>>>
>>> Most likely location. Being in NY and with IBM being just "down the
>>> road" none of the stores pushed business sales. We would sell a few to
>>> smaller places that couldn't afford big blue or wanted "local" support.
>>>
>>>
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