My first computer. Also my cousin's first computer. Sadly, I was too young and didn't know enough to really do anything on it, but that was my first encounter with DOS. Franklin computers became defunct rather quickly after the Ace 1000 because Apple sued for copyright infringement.
My cousin had a better beginning with it, and moved on to program for
Volition Inc, helping to program
Descent: Freespace. His biggest project before this (and one done on his own) was
DMapEdit, a
Doom map-editor. He now programs for a
database company in
the valley somewhere.