Re: Wanted: Rana Elite Three card

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4riup5$2qf@agate.xara.net>, Richard <rtk@scotborders.co.uk> wrote:
>One of the many Apple items I have for my museum is a 
>Rana Systems Elite Three disk drive. I'm not sure if I have a cable,
>but I am sure I don't have a card for it. I'm also looking for HD bits,
>I have an ICE HD, Symbiotic Controller Card. Finally, I need a Profile for
>my Apple ///. Anybody out there got a ///+ I can have? Or even a picture?

I have JPEGs of all my old machines, taken with my Quicktake camera. Unfortun-
ately that's all I have now as I'm away from home for a few months.

>What are the differences between the ///+ and the ///+? Apart from
>cosmetic?

I have both a III and a III plus. Here are some of the added features of a
III plus:

RF shielding making the machine FCC compliant
256K memory standard, expandable to 512K (IIIs max at 256K)
built in clock, an option on IIIs
//e style keyboard featuring a delete key
text resolution enhancer hardware with on/off switch on left underside of case
built in Silentype printer port

That's all I remember right offhand. I'd have to look through my old Softalks
to come up with any more. Even though it folded before the Mac 512 came out,
Softalk is a treasure trove of info about the early Apple days. I have every
issue put out except one, either Nov or Dec '80, I forget which.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@frii.com                                    when internet wasn't cool