On 04/27/2004 02:12 PM, STEPHEN_ADAMS wrote:

>
>-=> LEONARD ERICKSON wrote to STEPHEN ADAMS <=-
>
> SA> I think the Franklin's had only the one expansion port available, so
> SA> whatever solution you find would have to be built to the Franklin
> SA> specification (everything else would have to be built around the
> SA> serial  port protocols and connector).
>
> LE> Is "expansion port" different than "slot"?
Because the Franklins have
> LE> at least 6 slots. Maybe more. I'll have to fo down to the storage
> LE> locker and see.
>
>After reading the other responses in hear, my ignorance of the entire
>Franklin line shows. The only Franklin that I was aware of was the //c
>clone, which didn't have six expansion slots. It only had the one card
>edge expansion port on one of its sides. 
>
>Now that I've proven myself ignorant in all things Franklin, please feel
>free to ignore what I've said.  :)

I would not discount your recollection, Steven. It appears to me that what
you are amiliar with is the second, newer Franklin series.  I have seen and
used both of them.

> LE> My old computer cassette recorder has both line and mike input jacks.
> LE> But I'm not planning on writing any tapes, just reading ones I've got.
>
>Well then, you'd just need to patch your computer cassette recorder line
>out jack to whatever jack on the Franklin that it uses for loading in
>cassette tape based programs. 
>
>If you should find that your Franklin doesn't support the old
"load" and
>"save" Apple cassette tape commands, you can do a couple of
things to get
>those old cassettes saved as normal Apple disk based programs. 
>
>1.  Find someone who does have an Apple ][ or Apple ][+ with disk drives
>and ask if they would make the conversion for you. I'm not sure if an
>Apple //e would still have the physcial cassette tape jacks in it, but if
>it does, add that machine to the list (the Apple //c and IIc+ computers
>don't have such jacks). 
>
>2.  If you use either a Macintosh or PC, digitize those cassette tapes
>into AIF or WAV files. There are a few Apple II emulators available for
>both platforms that will read these digitized sound files as cassette tape
>input. From there you can save the programs onto virtual disk images.
>You'd then have to transfer the virtual images into the Franklin where
>there are Apple II based utilities that will convert the virtual disk
>image files back into real physical diskettes. 

Hmm, I may want toplay with the Mac versions myself.  I wonder if there
were any Apple //GS emulators developed. 
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