My first computer was a Franklin Ace 1000. Up until he died in 2005, my Dad still used it for printing address labels, and for running software he'd written in

My first computer was a Franklin Ace 1000. Up until he died in 2005, my Dad still used it for printing address labels, and for running software he'd written in BASIC. I finally had to get rid of it when I moved house a few years back.