Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!ames!sgi!wdl1!bobw From: bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Have you heard of DTK clones? Message-ID: <4160025@wdl1.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 16:15:28 GMT References: <1305@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Lines: 21 I just bought a DTK 10/6MHz 286 machine for my daughter. It was a bargain for the particular use: with 512K, 0WS, mono video (including monitor), printer port, 1.2MB floppy AND 20MB hard disk it was only $899 from Frys in Sunnyvale. The disk is a slow old Seagate 225 but this is intended as a starter system for later upgrade as necessary, and I knew in advance that was what they were installing, and that's not part of the DTK-ness of the system so it is irrelevant anyway. The mother board is really all that is uniquely DTK in the hardware (I have also used DTK serial I/O boards happily, but there is not one in this system yet.) It is well made, not "cutting edge" technology but solidly designed and fabricated. ("cutting edge"? well, it only holds 1MB, no EMS, only 10MHz, ...) The BIOS is DTK and seems to work well with everything so far. I have also got AWARD and PHOENIX BIOSes in other systems, and they all seem pretty much alike in most ways. The DTK does have a very nice feature, though, in diagnostics in the proms. I might put a DTK BIOS into the system for my other daughter at college just so, if she has any problems, I can ask over the phone for diagnostic results. Bob Wilson (bobw@wdl1.fac.ford.com) (disclaimers of course...)