Re: Rana systems

[buggie@argo.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

I once had a RANA ELITE 5.25" drive.  Nice stepper-motor design.   It
also had a front-panel manual write-protect override switch ---- a
forerunner of my BUGG-DRIUE with auto-manyal 3-way write-protect
mini-toggle switch.

Steve Buggie






Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: The Skeeez... <skezer@tundra.winternet.com> wrote:

: >Card says elite controller..  Has hookup for, four drives on one
: >card..? How do these perform..? i Have never come across one of
: >these before...!
: >
: >Anyone....?

: Ah, yes, the Rana systems drives were designed to read MS-DOS
: floppies from an Apple II computer.  There were several models.
: The lower models just read and wrote to MS-DOS disks, but the
: high end model had its own 8086 processor and was actually a
: PC computer controlled by the Apple II, allowing you to run PC
: software.  This did not, however, work with graphics programs
: because it used the Apple II to display screens.  This was in
: the days before even the PC Transporter, so most PC users were
: using text only adapters.