Re: Rana systems

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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.