poole@ssc-vax.UUCP (Kevin Poole) (08/01/89)
Have you heard of DTK? I am considering buying on of their AT 286 clones but have not ever heard of the company. The seller says that there are distributors nation wide and that the assembly factory is in Los Angeles, California. He also gave me two names that he says are synonymous with DTK (or Data Technologies) these are: AWARD and PHOENIX. Please let me know if you have any information. Thanks. Kevin Poole @ Boeing Aerospace and Electronics in Kent WA ------------------------------------------------------------------------
mrichey@orion.cf.uci.edu (Mike Richey) (08/02/89)
In article <1305@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> poole@ssc-vax.UUCP (Kevin Poole) writes: >Have you heard of DTK? I am considering buying on of their AT 286 clones >but have not ever heard of the company. The seller says that there are >distributors nation wide and that the assembly factory is in Los Angeles, >California. DTK imports products abd assembles PCs. The mother boards, and other system components are their own brand. Don't use DTK as a Novell file server, but as a standard MS-DOS system it'll work great. > >He also gave me two names that he says are synonymous with DTK (or Data >Technologies) these are: AWARD and PHOENIX. Phoenix and Award have BIOS products. DTK has their own BIOS. IMHO, I would not want to be mentioned with Phoenix as synonymous. If you can stick with the Award. However, DTK will supply DTK BIOS. (Phoenix and Award do not produce PC compatibles.) >Please let me know if you have any information. Thanks. > >Kevin Poole @ Boeing Aerospace and Electronics in Kent WA > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
rog@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Roger Haaheim) (08/02/89)
Yes, I have a DTK XT clone. It works and does everything I have asked it to. It runs MS-DOS. The trueblue IBM dos doesn't work but my dealer gave me the DTK MS-DOS plus some other stuff which all works fine. I don't have anything to compare it to but I'm satisfied with it.
hatam@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Michael Hatam) (08/03/89)
I bought one of the 286 DTK clones about 8 months ago, and I've been very happy with it. It is 12/8 MHz. I don't know alot about PC hardware, but it was a very good deal, so I went with it, and I've been happy. I know that they use a chipset. - Mike
NU116215@NDSUVM1.BITNET (CLARK COFFMAN) (08/03/89)
>Have you heard of DTK? I am considering buying on of their AT 286 clones >but have not ever heard of the company. The seller says that there are >distributors nation wide and that the assembly factory is in Los Angeles, >California. > >He also gave me two names that he says are synonymous with DTK (or Data >Technologies) these are: AWARD and PHOENIX. > >Please let me know if you have any information. Thanks. > >Kevin Poole @ Boeing Aerospace and Electronics in Kent WA A year and half ago I bought a Whole Earth pc-clone using a DTK mother motherboard and DTK/ERSO 2.37 bios and I have had no problems with the board. I've used a couple of different hard drive controllers and other boards on it with no compatibility problems. In relation to AWARD and PHOENIX these are alternate bios' for micro-computers. Phoenix is probably the best but the Award bios is also well known. ERSO bios seems to be just fine also. I should note however that my board is an XT class not an AT, I would assume that their AT boards would be just as good, however. ___________________________________________________________________ | Hey, who else would you expect to be responsible for what I say? | <===================================================================>__ | |..| | Clark W. Coffman NU116215@NDSUVM1.BITNET |==> | 1410 12th Ave. N. Apt. 3 NU116215@VM1.NODAK.EDU |. | | Fargo, N.D. 58102 nucoffma@ndsuvax.uucp |..| | 701-232-9531 nucoffma@plains.nodak.edu |..| | |. | | --)------ Dagda Mor ------)-- | .| | |. .| |______:-: You Teach Best What You Most Need To Learn. :-:______|.. | | .... .. . .... .. .. ..... . .. ..... ... .... . .. ..... | |______________:-: "Richard Bach" :-:___________________________| Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article.
fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) (08/04/89)
In article <640010@hpcilzb.HP.COM> rog@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Roger Haaheim) writes: >Yes, I have a DTK XT clone. It works and does everything I have >asked it to. It runs MS-DOS. The trueblue IBM dos doesn't work >but my dealer gave me the DTK MS-DOS plus some other stuff which >all works fine. I don't have anything to compare it to but I'm >satisfied with it. --------------------- I just gotta get my two cents worth in here -- I, too, have a DTK XT clone, (well, actually a no-name clone using a DTK XT motherboard), with the DTK/ERSO/BIOS 2.40. I am currently using TrueBlue PC-DOS 3.30 without difficulty. I have previously used PC-DOS 3.10, also without any difficulty at all. I don't know why Roger reports trouble using PC-DOS on his, unless maybe he has an older version of the DTK BIOS. Until recently I could say that literally everything I had ever tried to run on it worked fine (that is, programs which were known to work on a real IBM XT). Recently I have tried installing Gem Desktop and the Bitstream Fontware package distributed with it. Gem Desktop goes on just fine, but the Bitstream Fontware installation program dies a horrible death when attempting to make fonts for Gem to use. According to the support guy I spoke to at Digital Research, their engineers report that there are many (?) XT clones on which it does not work, even though the manual says XT is ok. I would consider this more of a bug in the software than in the DTK motherboard, however, since everything else works fine. (Including Norton Utilities, PCTols, etc., etc. ad nauseum.) Fred
bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr) (08/09/89)
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...)