From: jungletrain@outlook.com   
      
   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...  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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