Originally Posted by
genejockey
EDIT: Oh, yeah - DT shifters were available as late as that, but you'd have been hard pressed to find a new bike with them. I feel lucky to have a set of 8 speed RX100 DT shifters from 1995, because they were already going the way of the Dodo by then.
In my eBay travels, just looking for random Dura Ace stuff I was surprised to see them for sale. For a long time I honestly thought my 7700 shifters were the last generation of DT shifters. Oops!