[AT] OT - computer advice

Steve W. swilliams268 at frontier.com
Thu Aug 7 20:37:36 PDT 2014


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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Franklin was the outfit that built Apple clones prior to Apple shutting 
down that option.

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Steve W.



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