A2600 Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 I am soon to be an owner of one of these Disk Drives!! From the looks of it looks like a good Drive!! Well I finnally got my drive and an Atari 1010 too!! Now to save those Basic games Nukey sent me!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 Rana drives have an interesting story. Initially a company called Trak was selling disk drives for Atari's, Apples and IBM's apparently the two brothers who owned the firm had a falling out, so one of them left, formed Rana and if you notice, it looks and works VERY similar to the TRAK AT D2's doesn't it, well thats because it because is, except the RANA's were built rather cheap in quality and did have a high failure rate. The door on the front was a neat little cosmetic too... Give your Atari a Ferrari! RANA! Curt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 Well done A2600, as it happens I got a Rana drive today as part of someones old atari collection. Now I've got to see if it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 Actually I made a mistake in my previsou post, its the Indus with the plexiglass and the Atari to Ferrari slogan, not the RANA, oooops. Curt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A2600 Posted April 17, 2003 Author Share Posted April 17, 2003 RANA's were built rather cheap in quality and did have a high failure rate. So that means its bad? I know its beter than the Atari 1050 and its all most as good as the Indus GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 Nah, the RANA is an okay drive and yes its much better then the Tandon version of the 1050, the World Storage version of the 1050 is a better drive though. If you ever get an Atari XF551, be VERY careful with it and plugging in and/or removing the SIO cables, the board inside is a thin piece-o-(you know what) and the SIO connectors or individual solder connections from the SIO connectors to the board tend to break VERY easily, so just plug in your SIO cable and leave it in, don't remove it and reinsert it too often. Most of those devices are well past the Mean-time-to-failure and they've been chugging away nicely now for 20+ years, gotta give them credit! Curt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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