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Hardware
Custom Electronic Installer http://www.ce-pro.com/

Cables

Media - Mass Storage Data Recovery & Maintenance http://grc.com/default.htm

Power systems – cleaners & UPS devices
Refurbished APCC UPS devices www.refurbups.com

Printers:
http://www.laserpage.com/subindex.htm

Processors
Accelerators and Clock Chipping http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/mhz.html


Networking Products & Info
Pin-out charts http://www.wiring.com/industry_diy/pin-outs.htm
punch-down blocks explained http://www.combsnet.com/cable/Basics/66blocks.html
cabling basics http://www.combsnet.com/cable/Basics/basics.html
at home with cabling http://www.combsnet.com/cable/index.html
good links http://www.combsnet.com/cable/More_info/web_sites.html
Broadband info http://www.broadbandreports.com/

Wiring, Cabling, Connecting
Identification of data connectors http://www.philmore-datak.com/connector_indx.htm
Identification of power connectors http://www.passandseymour.com/pdf/G07.pdf
Better identification of power connectors http://frentzandsons.com/Hardware%20References/plugandreceptacleconfiguratio.htm

Misc:
http://www.shout.net/~wildixon/telecom/rj/rj.html
http://www.connectworld.net/
http://www.wiring.com/
http://www.dgahouston.com/drivers.htm
Fax/Telephone switch http://www.command-comm.com/

Hacking
Defcon http://www.defcon.org/
2600: The Hacker Quarterly http://www.2600.com/
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/
http://www.staticusers.net/
The New Hacker's Dictionary http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/

Gaming
http://www.planetquake.com/
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/resources/

PDAs
Comparisons http://reviews.cnet.com/2001-3128_7-0.html?legacy=cnet&tag=ont-hh
Muchy's Palmware Review http://muchy.com/
Palm www.palm.com
Software & Accessories
Daggerware of Hackmaster Fame http://www.daggerware.com
Eurocool http://www.eurocool.com
Freeware Palm www.freewarepalm.com
Memoware – texts in Palm .doc format – http://www.memoware.com
Palmgear www.palmgear.com
PDAs and a whole lot more; reviews, etc. http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/

Privacy Issues
Privacy now rates its own page: clickum

Software
Software Product Finder http://productfinder.infoworld.com/infoworld/MainServlet?ksAction=Home

Drivers
Scanner Drivers http://www.scanner-drivers.com/
Emulators http://www.emulators.com/


Shareware/Freeware
Dr. Dobbs Journal http://www.ddj.com/ "Software tools for the professional programmer"
Download www.download.com
Liststat - Email address statistics package http://wordsmith.org/anu/listat/index.html
MajorGeeks http://majorgeeks.com/
Shareware www.shareware.com
Tucows www.tucows.com/
VersionTracker http://www.versiontracker.com/
CGI Scripts http://www.scriptarchive.com/
http://www.filetransit.com/



Specific Platforms
Apache Server
Tutorials http://apache-server.com/tutorials/
http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache 1.3 Directives http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/directives.html
HTTP Password generation tool http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/
The book Apache Desktop Reference can be browsed http://www.apacheref.com/ref/ or downloaded http://www.apacheref.com/download.html
Apache Week http://www.apacheweek.com/

Digital Equipment Corporation
Metaguide to DEC computers http://www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm

Linux
http://www.linuxquestions.org/
Very good Linux resource http://www.die.net/doc/
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/

Macintosh My Mac Pages

Unix – book – partially available online – Unix for Mac OS X http://www.matisse.net/OSX/

Windows 95 My Windows Pages

Specific Software Products
Adobe Illustrator
AI9 Tutorials http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/students/illustrator/


Adobe LiveMotion
Adobe sites
Adobe LiveMotion SDK http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/livemotion/main.html
Adobe Xchange (swap meet?) http://www.adobeXchange.com


Adobe PageMaker
PM 6.5 Tutorials http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/students/pagemaker/index.shtml
Pagemaker FAQ http://www.worsleypress.com/pubprod/pm-faq.htm
Pagemaker tips http://www.worsleypress.com/format/format-PageMaker.htm

Macromedia Dreamweaver
http://www.dwfaq.com/Default.asp

Microsoft (all product support) http://support.microsoft.com


Ruby (scripting language)
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.rubycentral.com/index.html

Vi/Ex Editor tutorial: http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.html
vi reference http://www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/viref.html

Specific Languages
REXX
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/language/
NetREXX
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/netrexx/
http://ssatguru.tripod.com/NetRexx/

Colinshaw http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/mfcsumm.html
Thomas.Schneider's Classic Rexx to NetRexx converter http://www.rexx2nrx.com/

SmallTalk
http://www.ipass.net/vmalik/smalltalk.html
http://www.goodstart.com/index.shtml

OCR – Optical Character Recognition
http://www.stanford.edu/~rodan/imaging/ocr/

Computer History
http://www.computerhistory.org/
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp
The Association for History and Computing http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/
IEEE:  Annals of the History Computing http://www.computer.org/annals/
IEEE: History of Computing http://www.computer.org/history/
Timeline of computing from the abacus to Windows95 http://www.computer.org/computer/timeline/timeline.pdf
http://www.computerhistory.org/virtualvisiblestorage/entry.html
http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/hall_of_fellows/
History in the Computing Curriculum http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/HCLAS/CSC/ComputingHistory/index_ComputingHistory.cfm
The History of Computers http://www.thehistoryofcomputers.com/
A History of Computers http://www.maxmon.com/history.htm abstracted from the book Bebop BYTES Back
History of computer science and technology in the former USSR http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/FRAME/books-fr.htm
Old computer images http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/j-hist.shtml#History
More images http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html
The Machine That Changed The World http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html
More history from Virginia Tech http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
The Computer Museum @ Bletchley Park (Alan Turing's digs) http://www.retrobeep.com/
The History of Computing Science http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/
History of Computing Information http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/61ordnance/
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/index.html
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/
Past Notable Women of Computing http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html
The Univac http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/univac/index.html
Digital Equipment Company (DEC) museum http://www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm
Timeline of computing from the abacus to Windows 2000 http://cse.stanford.edu/class/sophomore-college/projects-01/human-computer-interaction/origins.htm
The IBM 1130 http://ibm1130.org/
Capacitance Electronic Disks http://www.cedmagic.com/
The first mouse http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/taylor_more.html
Computer Document Archives http://www.bitsavers.org/
IBM Archives http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/ Valuable resources on IBM's history
IBM Mainframe product profiles from 701 to eSeries zServer 990 http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_profiles.html
IBM Mainframe photo album http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_album.html
IEEE – not strictly computer, but lots of computer history http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/index.php
The U. S. Navy has a server dedicated to Admiral Grace Murray Hopper http://www.hopper.navy.mil/
Charles Babbage Institute http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ History of information technology and information processing; Burroughs-centric
National Archive for the History of Computing http://www.chstm.man.ac.uk/nahc/
Smithsonian Institution Grace Murray Hopper collection http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8324.htm
U. S. Army has some info http://ftp.arl.army.mil/ftp/historic-computers/
Virtual Museum of Computing  (VMoC) http://vmoc.museophile.com/
Virtual Museum of Informatics in Portugese http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/museuv/
A Brief History of Computing http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history/history.html
and good metalinks http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history/links.html
History of Computers http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
The Manchester Mark I http://www.computer50.org/mark1/MM1.html
and pictures http://www.computer50.org/mark1/photogallery.html
History of the Macintosh operating system http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/
Not a lot of detail, but a decent broadstroke picture beginning with the abacus http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/index.html
A brief timeline of the internet http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp
ComputerWorld Heros http://www.cwheroes.org/home.asp
Greater Pittsburgh Vintage Computer Museum http://www.myoldcomputers.com/
Obsolete Computer Museum http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ only goes back to the 80s
The History of the Net http://members.magnet.at/dmayr/history.htm




Women in Computing, Science, and Technology
ACM Committee on Women in Computing http://women.acm.org/
Association for Women in Computing http://www.awc-hq.org/ http://www.awc-hq.org/livewire/
Association for Women in Science http://www.awis.org/
Binary Girl http://www.binarygirl.com/
Center for Women and Information Technology http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
Committee on the Status of Women in Computing research (CRA-W) http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/ A subset of CRA, below
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://www.cpsr.org/program/gender/index.html
Digital Eve The parent site http://www.digitaleve.org/ seems lethargic, but local chapters are
more active: http://www.digitalevechicago.org/
GirlGeeks http://www.girlgeeks.org/
Institute for Women and Technology http://www.iwt.org/home.html
Linux Chix http://www.linuxchix.org/
Past Notable Women of Computing http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html
Society of Women Engineers http://www.societyofwomenengineers.org/
Systers http://athena.systers.org/faq.html
Techno-grrl resources http://www.doinggender.com/networking.htm
Techno-grrl metalinks http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_sci.html
and http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_girls.html (younger slant)
Women in Computer Science at CMU http://women.cs.cmu.edu/
Women In Global Science and Technology http://www.wigsat.org/
Women in Science and Technology (WIST) http://www.apa.org/science/wist/
Women In Technology International http://www.witi.com/
WorldWIT (Women, Insights, Technology) http://www.worldwit.org/
Untold http://www.untold.net "...a resource created to support further exploration into gender, design, and technology."


Professional Organizations
Association of Shareware Professionals http://www.asp-shareware.org/
Association for Women in Computing http://www.awc-hq.org/ http://www.awc-hq.org/livewire/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://www.cpsr.org/
Computing Research Association (CRA) http://www.cra.org/ (Leans towards the academic)
International Federation for Information Processing http://www.ifip.or.at/ (Leans towards the academic)

Industry Organizations
Benton Foundation http://www.benton.org/ "...vision for the digital age...demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems."
Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) http://www.comptia.org/
International Teledemocracy Center http://itc.napier.ac.uk/
National Center For Digital Government http://www.ncdg.org/ "Integrating Information and Institutions"
WebLab http://www.weblab.org/ "...encourages and supports innovation on the Web..."


Mentoring
Mentornet http://www.mentornet.net/ "The E-mentoring network for women in engineering and science."

Supercomputing
The Top 500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ and http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
And the NCSA FTP server ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) http://www.psc.edu/
San Diego supercomputer center at UCSD http://www.sdsc.edu/



Certification
Microsoft certifications http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.asp
BrainDumps:
http://www.freebraindumps.com/ Microsoft, Checkpoint, Cisco, CompTIA, CIW, Oracle
http://www.mcsebraindumps.com/ Mostly MS, also Cisco

Journals & Publications Online
CIO http://www.cio.com.au/
Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2003/07/index.html
Electronic Journal of Design, Typography & Graphics http://www.graphic-design.com/DTG/index.html
Dr. Dobbs Journal – Software Tools For The Professional Programmer http://www.webreview.com/
Eweek http://www.eweek.com/
InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/
JavaWorld http://www.javaworld.com/
Online Computing http://www.networkcomputing.com/
Windows & .net Network Magazine http://www.winnetmag.com/

Technology Councils
Virginia Research & Technology Advisory Commission http://www.cit.org/vrtac/
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology http://www.cit.org/
Greater Richmond Technology Council http://www.richtech.com/

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