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From: lewis@tsc.cs.unc.edu (Jeffrey Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 286 clone offered by DAK Industries
Keywords: 286,IBM clone,DAK
Message-ID: <4770@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 17:46:33 GMT
References: <297@pte.UUCP>
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Reply-To: lewis@tsc.UUCP (Jeffrey Lewis)
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In article <297@pte.UUCP> llr@pte.UUCP (Larry Roy) writes:
>
>   I have received the Winter 89 edition of the DAK Industries
>catalog.  On page 7 is a 286-clone that is selling for $1999 with
>lots of goodies thrown in.        
>
>   Has anybody ever heard of VTI?  Has anybody ever purchased a 
>system from DAK Industries?

I don't know anything about this new system, but I bought a 
portable from them about a year and a half ago, with mixed
results.  The first one (isn't that a great start?) had some
type of drive problem, so we sent it back.  DAK has a 30-day
return-for-any-reason policy, and it was really no problem
at all.  The second one apparently had some RS232 problems
because I never could get my modem working with it.  I 
called their technical support and talked to someone 
who spent lots of time telling me what a communications
god he was and how the port wasn't really broken, but that the
problem was that I was a stupid idiot.  This incident was my
only real complaint with DAK, and was easily fixed by talking
to someone else.  Anyway, we sent that one back, too and finally
got a third one, which seems to do everything, and is still
working.

To summarize my semi-harangue, I've gotten quite a few things from
DAK and am generally happy with their support and their return
policy.  Another nice feature was that this computer was also part
of a package and they let me send back just the piece that wasn't
working, instead of having to repack everything and possibly getting
back a broken something else.

(Sorry about the follow-up but my mail got bounced)
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