Re: RANA 8086/2 Board?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Bill_Scheffler@tap.colum.fnet.org wrote:
:        Hello all,
:        I was wondering if anybody has heard of the RANA 8086/2 board?  I was
: digging through some old Apple docs at work and found a promotion thing for
: the Apple //e & //c.  It mentioned a boad called the RANA 8086/2 that could
: run DOS applications.  I don't want to buy one, but I'm curious as too what
: this thing is.  For all the years I've used //'s, I've never heard of this
: thing (I have a PCT).  Thanks.

I seem to remember seeing one of these things back in my Summer Tech days.
 I think it was a Rana disk drive with an 8086-compatible motherboard
split into thirds and wrapped around the drive.  Equivalent to the
state-of-the-art IBM of the day, and capable of reading and writing both
IBM and Apple disks...Worked a lot like the PCT, except that it handled
the various disk formats itself.  Add to that the fact that Rana was known
for building drives which were bigger, noisier, and more accurate than the
Apple Disk ][ drives...I guess it was a pretty good product that just
never caught on.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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