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 ([email protected]) wrote:
: The Skeeez... <[email protected]> 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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