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Re: Rana systems Still have it?

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by: KP2 KP2 - Tue, 3 Jan 2023 02:20 UTC

On Thursday, March 12, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, stephen e buggie wrote:
> 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 (super...@aol.com) wrote:
> : The Skeeez... <ske...@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.

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