WELCOME TO ALT.COMP.HARDWARE.HOMEBUILT
(v.13 Modified 12/24/95)
Please note: I'm currently in the process of trying to finish
my thesis. As a result, I haven't been able to work on this for very
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Sooo, until I can manage to get my thesis done (hopefully soon), I'm
only making corrections sent to me by users. If you need the latest
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This file contains frequently asked questions (FAQ) and general
information pertaining to the newsgroup alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
It is maintained by Mark Sokos
(msokos1@g...).
It is posted
every two weeks to the newsgroup alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt. The latest
version may also be obtained by sending an e-mail request to the above
address.
A DOS text version is available from Dave Badlwin's FTP site:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/di/dibald/
(an alternate local ASCII copy is also available.)
This HTML version, maintained by
Hai Pham, lives at:
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/pham/homebuilt/achh.faq.html
This file is copyright 1995 by Mark Sokos. It may be freely copied and
distributed as long as this notice remains intact and the file is not
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- 1.0 What the group is about
- 2.0 Questions
-
2.1 Can I post ads on the newsgroup?
2.2 Can I post questions involving
hardware problems?
2.3 What's this about a new homebuilt newsgroup?
2.4 What is a "Wally"? (and other terms specific to
this newsgroup)
2.5 Where can I get more information about [x]?
2.6 Where can I get an EEPROM programmer?
2.7 How can I make my own SIMMS?
2.8 Where are the pinouts for [IBM clone port]
2.9 How do I interface to [port/bus]
2.10 Where can I get hard drive specs?
2.11 How can I make my own circuit boards?
2.12 What is the Net Station?
2.13 How do I homebrew an LCD controller?
2.14 How do I make good front panels/cover
plates?
2.15 Is there a CD ROM covering semiconductors?
2.16 Where can I get technical information about
Game Boy?
2.17 How can I build a POST code reader for my
PC?
- 3.0 Where to get more information
-
3.1 Vendors
3.2 Internet Resources
3.3 BBS Numbers
3.4 Book/Magazine List
- 4.0 Misc.
This group was formed for the discussion of homebuilt computer hardware,
as the name implies. The term "homebuilt" or alternately, "homebrew",
refers to the hobby of building electronics at home, generally with
a soldering iron or wire wrap. No knowledge or experience is required
for posting to this group. Postings may deal with real hardware, or
absract concepts, and are not restricted to any specific cpu or
architecture. Topics may also include homebuilt peripherals added to
existing off the shelf systems, or hardware hacks to existing
systems/accessories.
Please note: Unfortunately, the term "homebuilt" causes a great
deal of confusion amongst IBM clone builders, which leads to a large
number of inappropriate posts on this newsgroup. This group, as a general
rule, is not for discussion of IBM related hardware, unless there is
some aspect of home built electronics involved, such as connecting
your own device to an IBM serial/parallel/game port, etc. or using IBM
clone hardware as part of a homebuilt design (non-IBM design).
Common IBM clone hardware hacks, such as overclocking and changing the
UART chip, are best discussed in one of the IBM related newsgroups. An
IBM clone hardware questions pointer is posted frequently on news.answers,
and due to its length the information within it will not be repeated here.
Warning: Any post that may be considered an
"alt.fix.my.pc" post is
likely to draw flames or intentionally misleading advice from the regulars
at a.c.h.h. Following such advice for a "fix my PC" type post may be
damaging to your computer. You have been warned.
Answers to specific questions are included in this section. Many of
the answers are only pointers to more information, so that large volumes
of information are not duplicated unnecessarily.
As a general rule, alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt is not a forsale group
and thus does not allow advertising. An exception is made for advertising
that is directed specifically for electronics homebuilders, and is not
otherwise available on the net in general. Examples of this are device
programmers and electronics parts. Trading between homebuilders is
encouraged.
Items that fit well into other existing forsale newsgroups should not be
advertised here. PC related advertising, such as hard drives, motherboards,
and other standard PC clone parts, is not permitted. While CPU advertisements
in general are permitted, CPU advertisements for the common PC clone CPU's
(such as 486 and Pentium chips) are not permitted because of the existing
PC clone forsale groups that already provide plenty of coverage for these
parts.
This question was asked to the group in general, and the overwhelming
response was NO! The only exception would be if you are having a
hardware problem with your homebuilt hardware, not pre-fab hardware.
As Andrew noted in an early version of the FAQ:
"Since EVERY SINGLE ONE of the replies I got re: the FAQ said "no, this is
not the appropriate place for questiongs about PC building and pre-made
parts and compatibility between them, the answer obviously is a very
strong NO. This is not to say that you should not post questions, but
only post questions about homebuilt computers, not computers built from
pre-made parts. The difference should be very clear.
If you post here about your hard drive that you want to slave, i doubt if
people will have much mercy. It is getting on peoples nerves."
Replies to PC hardware problems are also strongly discouraged. Such replies
should either be posted on the appropriate groups or should be done via
private e-mail.
It has been suggested at times (often sarcastically) that a new newsgroup
should be made up with some name other than alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,
so that the group would not be plagued with off topic pc-clone related posts.
Creating a new moderated group has also been suggested. To date, the only
change in the newsgroup structure has been the creation of a new newsgroup
specifically for "homebuilding" in the PC clone sense of the word, which
is alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt.
A "Wally" is someone who posts off topic noise to the group. No offense
to real persons named Walley is intended.
Homebrew referes to the art of designing and building electronics at home,
and has nothing at all to do with alcohol.
Midnight Engineering also refers to designing and building devices at home.
Anyone who has stayed up till the wee hours of the morning trying to get
something to work knows the origins of this term all too well.
- AMD
- 408-732-2400 Facts-On-Demand. 1-800-222-9323 Option #1
- Cypress Semiconductor
- 3901 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134
- Dallas Semiconductor
- Fax-Back: 1-214-450-0441
Data sheets and application notes for Dallas Semiconductor devices.
- Harris Semiconductor
- WWW page:
http://rel.semi.harris.com/docs/datasheets/
Contains PostScript files for all their products, and a 'AnswerFAX'
service to request faxes of the data sheets through a form page.
- Intel Literature
- PO Box 58130, Santa Clara CA 95052-8130
1-800-548-4725
- Microchip
- http://www.mchip.com/microchip
- Motorola
- Phone: 1-512-928-6800, 1-800-441-2447
Motorola Literature Distribution
PO Box 20912, Phoenix, AZ 85036
automatic fax-back information: 602/244-6609
regular fax: 602/994-6430
BBS: 512-891-3733 9600 V32 8N1
European Literature Center, 88 Tanners Drive
Blakelands, Milton Keynes, MK14 5BP, England
- National Semiconductor
- 2900 Semiconductor Drive, PO Box 58090 Santa Clara, CA 95052
Phone: 1-408-721-5000
- NEC
- 401 Ellis St, PO Box 7241, Moutain View CA 94039
1-415-960-6000
http://www.nec.com
http://www.nectech.com
- Texas Instruments
- PO Box 655012 MS 308, Dallas TX 75265
- Zilog
- Phone: 1-408-370-8000
Technical center: 1-215-653-0230
http://www.zilog.com
- Advin Systems
- 1050-L East Duane St. Sunnyvale, CA 94086
1-408-736-2503
- Andromeda Research
- PO Box 222, Milford, OH 45150
1-513-831-9708
- BP Microsystems
- DATA I/0
- (http://www.data-io.com)
- General Device Instruments
- Phone: 408-241-7376
Sales: 408-241-7376
FAX: 408-241-6375
BBS: 408-983-1234, All software to demo free
email: ICDEVICE@i...
- Jason-Ranheim Company
- 3105 Gayle Lane, Auburn, California 95603.
Jason-Ranheim, 1805 Industrial Drive, Auburn, Ca. 95603
Technical Support: (916) 823-3284
Outside The USA: (916) 823-3285
Orders Toll Fre: (800) 421-7731
From California: (800) 421-7748
- JDR Microdevices
- 1850 South 10th Street, San Hose CA 95112-4108
Orders: 1-800-538-5000
Cust. Service: 1-800-538-5001
1850 South 10th Street, San Hose CA 95112-4108
- Logical Devices
- 130 Capitol Drive, Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 1-303-279-6868, 1-800-315-7766
tech support (in Flordia): 1-305-428-6868
- M2L Electronics
- 3526 Jasmine #4 Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone: 310-837-7818 (9am-1pm)
BBS: 310-837-7818 (all other hours)
email: m2l.electronics@f...
- Needham's Electronics
- 4630 Beloit Drive, Suite #20, Sacramento, CA 95838
Phone: 916-924-8037
Fax: 916-924-8065
BBS: 916-924-8094
ftp://ftp.quiknet.com/users/needhams
http://www.quiknet.com/~needhams
- Stag Micro Systems
- 1600 Wyatt Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: 1-408-988-1118
- System General
- XELTEK
- Unipro Universal Programmer that programs: Eproms, EEProms,
Bipolar, Epld, Flash, Gal, Pal, and some Microcontrollers.
Also tests TTL, CMOS, DRAM & SRAMS.
3563 Ryder St. Santa Clara, CA 95051
Voice: (408) 524-1929
Fax: (408) 245-7084
BBS: (408) 245-7082
http://www.calweb.com/~pplus
- Plans for making your own can be found at:
- FTP sites:
ftp.paranoia.com/pub/users/defiant
ftp.cistron.nl/pub/hacking
WWW pages:
http://www.gpl.net/paulmax/
http://www.paranoia.com/~defiant/
http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg/HTML/LINK/F_pal_gal.html
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd-grads-gs3/loving/www/m2l.html
EZ-EP info (cheap, easy eprom programmer)
- Popular Electronics
- in the July 1982 issue.
- "Build This PLD Programmer" by Robert G. Brown
- Electronics Now (magazine), May 1994
- Various kits and software are available from
- R.G. Brown, 30 Wicks Road, E. Northport, NY 17731
- "Project: GAL programmer" by Manfred Nosswitz.
- Elektor Electronics (magazine), May 1992
- "Project: GAL Programmer Upgrade" by M. Nosswitz
- Elektor Electronics, June 1993
The software and PC boards are available through the Elektor
publishers/franchises in various countries.
Old Colony Sound Lab
P.O. Box 243, Peterborough, NH 03458
Phone: (603) 924-6371 or -6526
Fax: (603) 924-9467
In the UK:
Elektor Electronics (Publishing)
P. O. Box 1414, Dorchester DT2 8YH, England
- "Generic Array Logic (GAL)" D. Gembris
- Elektor Electronics, April 1992
- "EPLD programmer design" John Cromie
- Electronics & Wireless World, February 1989
- "Create Your Own IC's", Bill Green
- Popular Electronics, January 1990
- "A PAL Programmer" and "Getting Started with PALS",
Robert A. Freedman
- Byte, January 1987
September 1995 issue of "Electronics Now" starting on
page 35 has plans for 30 pin SIMMs
SIMM blanks may be obtained from:
- In the US:
AutoTime Corporation
6605 SW MacAdam Avenue, Portland, OR 97201
Memory Conversion Products
428 NW 9th Street, Corvillis Oregon 97330
Phone: 503-753-7918
JMS Technologies
4217C S Mellen Dr. Mountain Home, ID 83648
FAX: (208) 832-7897
- In Germany:
eMedia GmbH
Postbox 61 01 06, 30601 Hannover, Germany
http://www.linefeed.com/linefeed/hcs/index.html
There are several versions of blank SIMM boards available from the UK
including 1x1 ZIP, 1x1 DIP, 1x4 SOJ and 1x1 SOJ.
http://www.dircon.co.uk/linefeed/hcs/mempcb.html
Web page offering a number of unpopulated PCBs for making 30 and
72 pin SIMMs.
http://www.dircon.co.uk/linefeed/hcs/mempcb.html
Web page offering a number of unpopulated PCBs for making 30 and
72 pin SIMMs.
SIMM pinouts are available at http://www.cistron.nl/~nctnico/info.htm
Motorola's data book - Dynamic RAMs and Memory Modules
See the comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.* FAQ (posted on news.answers
and comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc).
ISA pinouts can be found at
http://www.cistron.nl/~nctnico/index.htm
IBM:
- Parallel Port:
- ftp://ftp.ee.ualberta.ca/pub/cookbook/comp/ibm/pport094.doc.Z
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
the filenames are: *lpt.faq; ibmlpt.faq, tomlpt.faq, and krislpt.faq
each meets different skill levels and needs.
PC Magazine,. Oct 27, 1992 pages 367-376
- ISA bus:
- You might also want to look into the book:
AT BUS DESIGN, IEEE P996 Compatible, by Edward Solari
ISBN 0-929392-08-6
- Articles about XT and AT type keyboards
- can be found in April/May 1995 issues of Circuit Cellar Ink.
An early copy of Micro Cornucopia ( March-April 1990 ) has all the
details about standards, interface chips etc
- The "pc-hardware-faq"
- from "comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.*" by Willie Lim and Ralph Valentino
also has a great deal of information in it.
- http://cal003109.student.utwente.nl/stefan
- has info on various ports (parallel, serial, keyboard, etc.)
- Information on IDE and parallel port interfacing:
- ftp://iglou.com/members/ITU/pc-int.
See the ATAr4c.txt and ide-tech.txt files for more info.
- For a complete treatment of IDE interfacing to 8-bit CPUs
- (particularly the Z80 family), check out issues 56, 63, 64,
and 66 of The Computer Journal.
- Connecting IDE devices to 8 bit machines:
- http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~jdb8042/SmallSys/8bitIDE.html
- SCSI2 interface specs:
- http://www.symbios.com/ftp/pub/standards/io/scsi2
http://www.abekrd.co.uk/SCSI2/SCSI2-index.html
- IBM, Technical Reference, Personal Computer AT, 1984
- "The IBM Personal Computer, from the Inside Out" by Sargent
and Shoemaker
- (published by Addison-Wesley) provides a lot of
information about interfacing an IBM type PC to various things.
- Official standard for the EISA bus
- are available from BCPR services, (Texas)
Tel: 1-713-251-4770
- Standards for the EISA bus
- are available from Global Engineering Documents,
Englewood, Colorado USA
Phone: (800)854-7179
Fax:(303)397-7935
- PCI Special Interest Group (SIG)
- P.O. Box 14070, Portland, OR 97214
Phone: (800)433-5177, (503)797-4207
FAX: (503)234-6762
- "Using a serial port for discrete I/O operations"
- September/October issue of MicroComputer Journal.
MAC:
- Brian A. Cole's (tuc@c...) Repository of
Macintosh Information
- http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~tuc/mac/
- Hardware Descriptions and Technical Notes
- ftp://ftp.support.apple.com
or http://www.apple.com
Other Bus Architectures:
- The VME bus FAQ
- is at
http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/archive/vmefaq.html or
http://www.oritools.com/info
- The I2C FAQ
- is available from:
ftp://ftp.uni.paderborn.de/elrad
- Universal Serial Bus home page:
- http://www.teleport.com/~USB
- MIDI interface:
- http://daemon.apana.org.au/~ghansper/MidiAxis.html
For jumper settings, etc. consult the appropriate newsgroup.
Information on ATA 1,2,3 can be found at
ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io directory.
Technical information about Seagate drives may be found at
http://www.seagate.com.
Western Digital technical support 1-800-275-4932
- "Yet Another Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ" is posted on
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and .misc. It is also
available, together with related material, by FTP from:
- ftp://ftp.aimnet.com/pub/users/clau/ide_ata/
ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/lps/hard-disk/
ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/faqs/
- and by WWW from:
- http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/ata/
http://www.seagate.com/techsuppt/faq/faqlist.html
There are several methods available. Most involve etching, where a
mask is drawn or transferred onto copper clad board, and the board
is immersed or sprayed by an etching solution. Boards and etchant
can be purchased at most electronics hobby stores, and various
manufacturers products are available via mail order. Some methods
use iron-on transfers, and others use a photo-etching process. There
is even a method using conductive ink and laser printers.
Some people have reported good results using Vector wire and
Verowire (UK). These methods are more similar to wire wrapping
than PCB fabrication.
A detailed PCB FAQ has been written by Vincent Himpe
(vincent.himpe@p...). It is posted on alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
and sci.electronics monthly.
- PCB FAQ:
- http://cal003109.student.utwente.nl/stefan/el
in the PCB section.
- Toner Transfer System (laser printer)
- DynaArt Designs
3535 Stillmeadow Lane,
Lancaster, CA 93536
- Electrolube
- Photo Resist, developer, Lacquer , Nickel spray, Etchant
Electrolube Limited
Blakes Road,
Wargrave,Berkshire,
RG10 8AW U.K.
Tel: +44 1734 404031
Fax: + 44 1734 403084
- Isel: Etchant,plating solution etching equipment etc...
- Isel Automation
6419 Eiterfeld 1,
Germany
- Sifco: Plating Pen
- Sifco
5708 Schaaf Rd.
Cleveland OH 44131
USA
Tel: 216-524-0099
Fax: 216-524-6331
- Vero Electronics
- Phone: 1-800-242-2863
- Circuit Works Conductive Pen
- is available from Ocean State Electronics, (800) 866-6626.
The catalog number is CW2200
- Niche Software's PCB Designer (Windows based PCB CAD program)
- A fully-functional (except for printout) demo is available from
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/win3/apps/pcbdemo
- Windraft from Ivex (shareware CAD schematic editor) and Winboard
(PC board layout tool)
- Both can be obtained at ftp.ivex.com. Ivex also has a webpage
at http://www.ivex.com/
The Net Station was a project whose goal was to create a computer
architecture and operating system that would be freely distributed
on the net. An agreement on the architecture, etc. was never reached,
and the project seems to have been abandoned. The thread does see
occasional revival, but little practical progress has been reported
lately (to the group, at least). There are unconfirmed reports that
the project is still being worked on, but details are presently
unavailable.
- LCD FAQs can be found at the following locations:
-
http://cal003109.student.utwente.nl/stefan
or http://cal003102.student.utwente.nl
http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg/HTML/LINK/F_LCD_tech.html
ftp://ftp.ee.ualberta.ca/pub/cookbook
- "K-SUN"'s "Letter Quick" Electronic Lettering and Labeling System.
- American Draftsource
1152 Marina Blvd. San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: (510) 352-8688
- Toner Transfer System by DynaArt Designs
- A wet method for transferring laser prints for
making printed circuit boards. The maker
claims it can also be used for decals and faceplates.
This material can be obtained from
All Electronics, (818) 904-0524.
- "Copi-Tak"
- A peel and stick plastic sheet that you first print
on with a laser printer. You can cut it to fit your panel shape and
then peel & stick.
Fidelity Products Co.
5601 Intl. Prkwy.
P.O. Box 155
Minneapolis, Mn. 55440-0155
- 3M Dynamark II system
- uses a photo-sensitive label material that is exposed
to UV light - through your negative - in much the same way as you
produce prototype PCB's. It is then developed and produces a very nice
professional label.
3M House,
28 Great Jackson Street,
MANCHESTER. M15 4PA.
Tel: 0161-237-6142
Fax: 0181-237-9320
3M Specialty Marking Systems Project
St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
CD-ROM from D.A.T.A. Digest
1-303-799-0381, 1-800-447-4666
Fax: 1-303-700-4082
Over 1.25 million active devices from more than 1000 manufacturers.
These cover trnasistors, linear, diodes, optoelectronics, digital and
microprocessors.
Jeff Frohwein's Gameboy technical page,
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jfrohwei/
Follow the links for Technical Information and Gameboy.
Aug. 1993 Electronics Now magazine, page 31,
"Post Code Reader For Your PC".
It is idendical to the JDR card.
US:
- All Electronics
- PO Box 567 Van Nuys, CA 91408
Phone: 1-800-826-5432
- Allied Electronics
- Phone: 1-800-433-5700, 1-817-595-3500
FAX: 1-817-595-6444
- Alltronics
- 2300 Zanker Road, San Jose CA 95131
Phone: 1-408-943-9773
- American Science and Surplus
- Phone: 1-708-982-0870
- Arrow Electronics
- 1860 Smithtown Ave, Ronkonkoma NY 11779
Phone: 1-800-93-ARROW
- B.G.Micro
- P.O.Box 280298, Dallas, TX, U.S.A. 75228
Phone: 800/276-2206
FAX: 214/271-2462
email: bgmicro@i...
- Circuit Specialists Inc.
- PO Box 3047 Scottsdale AZ 85271
Phone: 1-800-528-1417
- DC Electronics
- PO Box 3203 Scottsdale AZ 85271
Orders: 1-800-423-0070
Phone: 1-602-945-7736
- Digi-Key
- Phone: 1-800-344-4539 (1-800-DIGI-KEY)
WWW: http://www.digikey.com
- Heath (Heathkit)
- Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Phone: 1-616-925-5899, 1-800-253-0570
US/Canada: 1-800-44-HEATH (US/Canada)
Canada: 1-800-444-3284 (Canada)
- Hosfelt Electronics
- Phone: 1-800-524-6464
- Images Company
- Phone: 718-698-8305
- International Components Corp
- 1803 W. Lincoln Way, Toledo OR 97391
Phone: 1-503-336-4400, 1-800-325-0101 (US/CANADA)
- ITU Technologies
- kits and electronic products
Phone: 513-574-7523
E-Mail: sales@i...,
or itutec@a...
FTP: itutech.com
WWW: http://www.itutech.com/
- Jameco (components)
- 1355 Shoreway Road, Belmont, CA 94002-4100
Phone: 1-800-831-4242
Fax: 1-800-237-6948
- Jason-Ranheim Company
- 3105 Gayle Lane, Auburn, California 95603.
- Jason-Ranheim
- 1805 Industrial Drive, Auburn, Ca. 95603
Phone: 916-823-3284
Technical Support (and outside the USA): 916-823-3285
Orders: 1-800-421-7731, 1-800-421-7748 (From California)
- JDR Microdevices Orders: 1-800-538-5000 Cust. Service: 1-800-538-5001
- 1850 South 10th Street, San Hose CA 95112-4108
Orders: 1-800-538-5000
Cust. Service: 1-800-538-5001
International Sales: 1-408-494-1400
WWW: http://www.jdr.com/
- Kelvin Electronics
- 7 Fairchild Ave, Plainsview NY 11803
Phone: 1-800-645-9212, 1-516-349-7620
- Marshall Industries
- 9320 Telstar Ave, El Monte, CA 91731-2895
Phone: 1-818-307-6000
Fax: 1-818-307-6187
WWW: http://www.marshall.com
- MCM Electronics
- 650 Congress Park Drive, Centersville OH 45459
Phone: 1-800-824-TECH, 1-800-543-4330
- Mouser Electronics
- 958 N. Main Street, Mansfield TX 76063
Phone: 1-800-346-6873, 1-800-992-9943
- Newark Electronics
- 4801 N.Ravenswood Ave, Chicago IL 60640 (Attn: Catalog Dept)
Phone: 1-312-784-5100
Canada:
1625 Trinity Drive, Mississuaga, Ont. L5T 1K4
Phone: 1-800-463-9275
International:
Export Dept.
500 North Pulaski Rd, Chicago IL 60624
Phone: 1-416-673-7799, 1-312-784-5100
- NTE Electronics, Inc
- 44 Farand St. Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Phone: 1-201-748-5089
- Ocean State Electronics
- PO Box 1458, Westerly RI 02891
Orders: 1-800-866-6626
Phone: 1-401-596-3080
- Parallax, Inc. (Basic Stamp)
- 3805 Atherton Rd. 102, Rocklin, CA 95765
Phone: (916)624-8333
Fax: (916)624-8003
BBS: (916)624-7101
email: info@p...
- Parts Express
- 340 E. First St, Dayton OH 45402
Phone: 1-513-222-0173, 1-800-338-0531
- Scott Edwards Electronics
- Small Parts, Inc. Mechanical parts - good for the home builder
- 13980 NW 58th Court, PO Box 4650, Miami Lakes, FL 33014
Orders: 1-305-557-8222
Catalog: 1-305-558-1255
- Technological Arts
- Microcontroller modules, socket adapters, other products
1644 Bayview Ave. Suite 1704, Toronto, Ontario, M4G 3C2
Voice & Fax: (416) 963-8996 (Toronto)
309 Aragona Blvd. Suite 102-418, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
WWW: http://www.io.org/~techart/
Email: techart@i...
- The Electronic Source Book
- A publication that lists component manufactures by brand names,
and type, their original locations, and their
local sources. The book is regional, you purchase one for your region in
U.S. or Canada. It is published by Interec, at (800) 217-3372, or
(913) 967-1719.
- Non-US:
- GMS Sperry-Sun (UK) Limited
- Phone:+44-1242/265534-544
Fax : +44-1242/221336
E-mail: aiaccarino@s...
- Gothic Crellon
- Phone: ++ 1703 788878
FAX: ++ 1703 776095
- Greenweld Electronics in Southampton
- Phone: 01703 236363
- IQD
- Phone: (01460) 74433
Fax: (01460) 72578
- ElectroValue Limited
- Staines, Middx.
Phone: 01784 442253 (Mail order)
- ELECTROMAIL
- Phone: 01536 204555
- RS COMPONENTS
- Phone: 01536 201234
- John Birkitt
- 1, The Strait, Lincoln
Phone: +44 522 520767
- Maplin Electronics
- PO Box 3, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 8LR U.K.
Sales: +44 702 554161
Tech: +44 702 556001
- N R Bardwell
- Abbeydale Road, Sheffield
Phone: +44 742 552886
- Rapid Electonics
- Phone: +44 1206 751166
- RS Components GmbH
- Nordenstrasse 72-76, Postfacht 1365, 64528 Morfelden- Walldorf - Germany
Phone: 061 05 401 234
Fax: 061 05 401
- RS Components A/S
- Rugvaenget 21 , 2630 Tastrup, Denmark
Phone: 38 33 33 11
Fax: 38 34 22 32
- Verospeed
- Phone: (01703) 644555
- Dubilier Distributors of new and surplus electronic components.
- Hewgate House, Rabands Lane, Aylesbury, Bucks. HP19 3RT.
Phone: 01296 393233 Yorks.HG2 8QT
Phone: 01423 879787.
Fax: 01423 879030
- Bull Electrical
- 250 Portland Road, Hove, Sussex, BN3 5QT
Phone: 01273 203500
Fax: 01273 323077
- The CR Supply Co.
- 127 Chesterfield Rd., Sheffield S8 0RN.
Phone: 0114 255 7771
- Cirkit Distribution Ltd.
- Park Lane, Broxbourne, Herts. EN10 7NQ
Phone: 01992 448899 (Sales Desk),
01992 444111 (Schools, colleges, account holders).
Fax: 01992 471314
- Cricklewood Electronics Ltd.
- 40-42 Cricklewood Broadway, LONDON NW2 3ET
Phone: 0181 450 0995, 0181 452 0161
Fax: 0181 208 1441
- Display Electronics
- 32 Biggin Way, Upper Norwood, LONDON SE19 3XF
Phone: 0181 679 4414
Fax: 0181 679 1927
- Electromail Ltd.
- P.O. Box 33, Corby, Northants. NN17 9EL.
Phone: 01536 204555
Fax: 01536 405555
- ElectroValue Ltd.
- Unit 3, Central Trading Estate, Staines, TW18 4UX.
Phone: 01784 442253
Fax: 01784 460320
Suppliers of quality components to industry & constructors since 1965.
Exceptional range of SIEMENS inductors and ferrites, also test
equipment, tools and other components.
Shops in Manchester and Egham, Surrey.
- ESR Electronic Components
- Station Road, Cullercoats, North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE30 4PQ
Phone: 0191 251 4363
Fax: 0191 252 2296
Variety of discrete components, i.c.s, transistors, p.c.b. materials etc.
- Greenweld Electronic Components Ltd.
- 27D Park Road, Southampton, SO15 3UQ.
Phone: 01703 236363 (Sales & General Enquiries).
Fax: 01703 236307
Surplus electronic boards, new components, test equipment, video & audio
accessories etc.
- Keytronics
- P.O. Box 634, Bishop's Stortford, Herts. CM23 2RX.
Phone: 01279 505543
Fax: 01279 757656
- Magenta Electronics Ltd.
- 135 Hunter Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs. DE14 2ST.
Phone: 01283 565435
Fax: 01283 546932
Well known range of kits from UK magazine projects, also other kits,
test equipment etc.
- Maplin Electronic Supplies Ltd.
- P.O. Box 3, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8LR
Phone: 01702 554161 (Sales Orders), +44 1702 554000 (International
Enquiries & Orders); 01702 552911 (Non-Technical Enquiries); 01702
556001 (Technical Enquiries, p.m. only)
Fax: 01702 553935
- Omni Electronics
- 174, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5DX.
Phone: 0131 667 2611
-
A wide range of components aimed at the hobbyist constructor.
- Tandy (UK) Ltd.
- Head Office, 5, Bilston Road, Wednesbury, W. Midlands, WS10 7JL.
Phone: 0121 556 0786.
- Farnell Electronic Components Ltd.
- Canal Road, Leeds, LS12 2TU.
Sales: 0113 263 6311
Tech. Support: 0113 279 9123
BBS: 0113 231 0160
Fax: 0113 263 3411
- ElectroSpeed Ltd.
- Boyatt Wood, Eastleigh, Hants. SO50 4ZY.
Sales: 01703 644555
Tech: 01703 641111
Fax: 01703 610282
- Rapid Electronics
- Heckworth Close, Severalls Industrial Estate, Colchester, Essex, CO4 4TB.
Phone: 01206 751166
Fax: 01206 751188
- HB Electronics
- Lever Street, Bolton, Lancs. BL3 6BJ.
Phone: 01204 525544
Fax: 01204 384911
- CPC plc
- Component House, Faraday Drive, Fulwood, Preston, Lancs. PR2 4PP.
Phone: 01772 654455
- Arrow Electronics (UK) Ltd
- Cambridge Road, Bedford, MK42 0LH.
Phone: 01234 270027
Fax: 01234 214674
- RS Components Ltd.
- P.O. Box 99, Corby, Northants, NN17 9RS
Phone: 01536 201201 (National orders), 01536-402888 (Technical help).
Cash with Order or credit card customers should refer to Electromail Ltd.
- Flint Distribution
- Walker Road, Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leics. LE67 1TU.
Phone: 01530 510333
Fax: 0153 051 0275
Large range of surface mount components.
- Polar Electronics Ltd.
- Cherrycourt Way, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 8YY.
Phone: 01525 377093
Fax: 01525 378367
Franchised component distributors. Famed for its Microchip PIC Owner's
Club.
- Gothic Crellon Ltd.
- 3, The Business Centre, Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham, Berks. RG11 2EY.
Phone: 01734 787848
Fax: 01734 776095
- Genalog Ltd.
- Gills Green, Cranbrook, TN18 5ET.
Phone: 01580 753754
- The Macro Group
- Burnham Lane, Slough, SL1 6LN.
Phone: 01628 604383
Fax: 01628 666873/ 668071
- Anzac Components Ltd.
- 822 Yeovil Road, Slough, SL1 4JA.
Phone: 01628 604411
Fax: 01628 660662
- MPS Electronics
- P.O. Box 777, Rayleigh, Essex. SS6 8LU.
Phone: 01702 554171
Maplin Professional Supplies - bulk discounts and accounts for
professional users.
- Chelmer Valve Company
- 130 New London Road, Chelmsford, Essex. CM2 0RG.
Phone: 01245 355296, 265865
Fax: 01245 490064
Valves (Vacuum tubes), RF power transistor specialists.
- Colomor Electronics Ltd.
- 170 Goldhawk Road, London, W12 8HJ.
Phone: 0181 743 0899
Fax: 0181 749 3934.
Valves (vacuum tubes) and semiconductor specialists.
FTP Sites:
- ftp://bode.ee.ualberta.ca/pub/motorola/general
or ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/misc/motorola/faq
- Motorola 68K microprocessor line m68kfaq.*
- ftp://cherupakha.media.mit.edu (cher.media.mit.edu)
- E&L FTP server (robotics, Mini-Board, and other projects)
- ftp://freeware.aus.sps.mot.com
- Motorola, fuzzy, risc, etc.
- ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
- FAQ's, Tutorials, Great Internet IC Masterbator (GIICM), PIC, Basic Stamp
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi
- Microprocessor, PIC info
- ftp://ftp.intel.com
- Intel's FTP site
- ftp://itutech.com/
- ITU Technologies
- ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj
- Dr. Dobbs Journal FTP site
- ftp://ftp.natinst.com/
- National Instruments
- ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/di/dibald/
- Dave Baldwin's (dibald@n...)
ftp site for schematics
for simple basic circuits. Single 'A' size pages and in GIF format.
Various FAQs and information about The Computer Journal are also
included.
- ftp://ftp.oak.oakland.edu
- SimTel mirror site
- ftp://ftp.parallaxinc.com
- ftp site of Parallax (Basic Stamp)
- ftp://ftp.picarefy.com/pub/Sun-Hardware-Ref/
- Information about Sun parts, etc.
- ftp://ftp.sics.se/pub/mchipsoft
- contains numerous .zip files
- ftp://ftp.syd.dit.csiro.au/pub/ken/zcc095.zip
- Small C (subset of C) developement system for Z80 microprocessors
- ftp://ftp.ti.com
- Texas Instruments FTP site
- ftp://ftp.zilker.net/pub/philips
- Philips "mini ftp site" set up by Phil Wood
of Philips, 8051, i2c FAQs
- ftp://iglou.com/members/ITU
- ftp://nctuccca.edu.tw
- mirror of ftp.intel.com
- ftp://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca
- U of Alberta EE archive m68k, spice, cookbook (schematics)
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu
- Usenet FAQs
- ftp://wpi.wpi.edu
- basic stamp information
WEB Pages:
- http://www.cera.com/engineer.htm
- http://www.circellar.com
- the Computer Applications Journal, from Circuit Cellar INK
- http://www.dalsemi.com
- Dallas Semiconductor
- http://freeware.aus.sps.mot.com/freeweb/index.html
- Motorola Microcontroller Freeware Web page
- http://motserv.indirect.com
- Motorola's semiconductor WWW page, Master Selection Guide, etc
- http://freeware.aus.sps.mot.com/index.html
- Motorola's microcontroller WWW page
- http://www.ti.com
- Texas Instruments home page
- http://www.zilog.com
- Zilog home page
- http://weber.u.washington.edu:80/pfloyd/ee/
- "The electrical Engineering Circuits Archive"
- http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg/HTML/cgi-bin/giicm_form.html
- Online searchable version of "The Giant Internet IC Masturbator"
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir
or http://bbs.cc.uniud.it/chipdir (Mirror site)
- Chip Directory, compiled by Jaap van Ganswijk ganswijk@x...
- http://www.ba-karlsruhe.de/automation/FAQ
- microcontroller FAQs
- http://www.ba-karlsruhe.de/automation/home.html
- Home Page Automation and Process Control:
- http://www.iglou.com/ITU
- http://www.io.com/~guccione/HW_list.html
- info. on computers built from FPGAs
- http://www.seagate.com
- Seagate home page
- http://www.nec.com
- NEC
- http://www.nectech.com
- NEC
- http:/www.oritools.com
- Orion Instruments home page
- http://www.parallaxinc.com
- Parallax Inc. web page
- http://www.cera.com/micro.htm
- "Microcontroller and Microprocessor Page"
Has HTML links to all sorts of IC information on the Net.
- http://www.e2w3.com/
- Data sheets for IC's
- http://cal003109.student.utwente.nl/stefan
- (circuits, info, apps)
- http://garage.ecn.purdue.edu/~papers/
- http://www.geopages.com/SiliconValley/1164
- http://dvt07.fagmed.uit.no/electronics.html
- Electronic related WWW-Page
- http://www.meci.com
- Mendelson's Electronics & Surplus. Still under construction.
- http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg
- Home-made PAL/GAL Programmers, LCD FAQs, sci.electronics FAQ, and links to other FAQs
- http://www2.psyber.com/~tcj/
- The Computer Journal (TCJ) Web page
- http://www.cistron.nl/~nctnico
- Electronics WWW page
- http://www.ivex.com
- Ivex web page (schematic capture, PCB layout tools, etc)
- http://www.mchip.com/microchip
- Microchip web page
- http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~jdb8042/SmallSys/8bitIDE.html
- Connecting IDE devices to 8 bit machines:
- http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/
- CPU Info Center
- http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au:80/~mafm/robot/index.html
- Hobby robot web page
- http://www.ecn.uoknor.edu/~jspatric/ee-info.html
- Electrical Engineering FAQs and Info Home Page
- http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/
- Semiconductors/Resellers (all 1 line- sorry)
- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jfrohwei/
- Jeff Frohwein's web page Technical information, links to various sites
- http://www.xicor.com
- Xicor
- http://www.actel.com
- Actel
- http://www.analog.com
- Analog Devices
- http://www.altera.com
- Altera
- http://www.amd.com
- AMD
- http://www.benchmarq.com
- Benchmarq Technology
- http://www.brooktree.com
- Brooktree
- http://www.burr-brown.com
- Burr-Brown
- http://www.cirrus.com
- Cirrus Logic
- http://www.cypress.com
- Cypress Semiconductor
- http://www.cyrix.com
- Cyrix
- http://www.dalsemi.com
- Dallas Semiconductor
- http://www.exar.com
- Exar
- http://www.fujitsu.com
- Fujitsu
- http://www.harris.com
- Harris Semiconductor
- http://www.hitachi.co.jp
- Hitachi
- http://www.hea.com
- Hyundai
- http://www.chips.ibm.com
- IBM Microelectronics
- http://www.idt.com
- Integrated Device Technology
- http://www.intel.com
- Intel
- http://www.isd.com
- Information Storage Devices
- http://ssi.syspac.com/~lansdale
- Lansdale Semiconductor
- http://www.latticesemi.com
- Lattice Semiconductor
- http://www.lsilogic.com
- LSI Logic
- http://156.147.220.63:8080/LGSemicon.html
- LG Semicon (aka Lucky Goldstar)
- http://www.mxim.com
- Maxim
- http://www.ultranet.com/biz/mchip
- Microchip Technology
- http://www.micron.com
- Micron Technology
- http://www.semicon.mitel.com
- Mitel Semiconductor
- http://motserv.indirect.com
- Motorola (semiconductor products division)
- http://www.national.com
- National Semiconductor (old site name, but still active)
- http://www.natsemi.com/
- National Semiconductor
- http://www.nexgen.com
- NexGen, Inc.
- http://www.oki.com
- OKI Semiconductor
- http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/ps
- Philips Semiconductor
- http://www.rambus.com
- Rambus
- http://www.csn.net/ramtron
- Ramtron
- http://www.samsung.com
- Samsung
- http://www.csn.net/simtek
- Simtek
- http://www.srmc.com/seeq
- SEEQ Technology
- http://www.smos.com
- S-MOS Systems
- http://www.ssi1.com
- Silicon Systems
- http://www.inmos.co.uk
- SGS-Thomson & Inmos
- http://www.synergysemi.com
- Synergy Semiconductor
- http://www.ti.com
- Texas Instruments
- http://www.toshiba.com
- Toshiba
- http://www.wdc.com
- Western Digital
- http://www.xilinx.com
- Xilinx, Inc.
- http://www.zilog.com
- Zilog, Inc.
- http://www.jdr.com
- JDR Microdevices
- http://www.cera.com/micro.htm
(general)
http://www.cera.com/gator.htm
(chip-specific and dev. tools).
- http://www.siemens.de or
http://www.sci.siemens.com
- Siemens
- href="http://www.natinst.com
- National Instruments
- http://www.infras.com/semico.htm<
- http://www.itutech.com
- ITU Technologies
- http://www.ddj.com
- Dr. Dobbs Journal web page
Mailing Lists, E-Mail, etc:
- Homebuilt-L has been established as a new outlet for the
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt. This is a forum for the exchange
of ideas, opinions and information among computer builders interested
in the above subject.
To subscribe to homebuilt-l, send the following in the body (not
the subject line) of an email message to
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If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as a local
redistribution list), you can use a command of the form:
"subscribe homebuilt-l other-address@y..._site.your_net"
(Without the quotes, of course)
- "Hotwired" mailing list: (information courtesy of John West)
Hotwired (the name is not my fault) is a mailing list for
people interested in home-built processors - anything from
software simulations to piles of TTL to FPGAs to custom
silicon. The address is
listserv@g...
and the message to send to it is: subscribe hotwired <your name>
- PIC mailing list
Administrative requests should go the the listserver at address
"listserv@m...".
You may join the list at any time by
sending a "SUB PICLIST" command via e-mail to the above address.
- info@c...
Email (not ftp) send Email to get information file on
services available. All Circuit Cellar INK and BYTE
related files available
Circuit Cellar, Inc. (203) 871-1988
Diamond's BBS: (408) 325-7080 (2400bps)
(408) 325-7175 (9600+bps)
EDN magazine (617) 558-4241
Electronics Now (516) 293-2283
General Device Instruments (408) 983-1234
Intel American Marketing Applications Support Bulletin Board System
(916) 356-3600
Intel's BBS +44-(0)1793-496340 2400,n,8,1
Parallax Inc. (916) 624-7101
Motorola (Austin Texas) BBS (512) 891-3733 (Austin, Texas)
- Munich, Germany: 49-89-92103-111 (2400 baud)
- Stuttgart, Germany: 49-7031-275496 (19200 baud)
- San Diego, California: (619) 279-3907
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada: (416) 497-8989
Philips Semiconductor (parent company of Signetics)
(800) 451-6644 or (408) 991-2406
Netherlands: +31-40-721102
Books:
- "AT Bus Design", By Ed Solari, Published by Annabooks
ISBN 0-929392-08-6
- "The art of electronics, 2nd ed." by Horowitz and Hill.
Also has a students lab book of experiments.
- "A Beginner's Guide to Computers and Microprocessors - with
projects" by Charles K. Adams, from TAB books
- "Best of Interface Age, Volume 1: Software in BASIC" Carl D. Warren
(ed.), dilithium Press, 1979, ISBN 0-918398-36-3
- "Build Your Own Low-Cost Data Acquisition and Display Devices"
by Jeffrey H. Johnson
- "Build you own Universal Computer Interface"
Covers a lot about serial interfacing and designing circuitry.
ISBN #: 0-8306-3122-4
- "Build your own Z80 Computer" by Steve Ciarcia
- "Controlling the world with your parallel port" Jamco Electronics
- "Design of oscillator and other harmonic oscillators " by Benjamin
Parzen (Published by John Wiley and Sons) ISBN 0-471-08819-6
- "Designing Cards and Drivers for Macintosh II and Macintosh SE"
ISBN 0-201-19256-X.
- "Designing with Programmable Array Logic", Tech. Staff of
Monolithic Memories, McGraw-Hill, 1981
- "Design with Microcontrollers", John B. Peatman
- "Digital Design with Standard MSI and LSI, 2nd ed."
by T. R. Blakeslee.
- "Digital Design Principles and Practices" By John F. Wakerly
Published by Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-212838
- "Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits"
- "Handbook of software and hardware interfacing for IBM PCs", By
Jeffrey P. Royer, Published by Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-381849-7
- "High Frequency Switching Power Suplies:Theory and Design"
by George Chryssis.
- "How to Design, Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System"
Robert P. Haviland, 1979, TAB Books, ISBN 0-8306-9810-8
(0-8306-1111-8 paperback)
- "The IBM Personal Computer, from the Inside Out" by Sargent and Shoemaker
(published by Addison-Wesley) provides a lot of information about
interfacing an IBM type PC to various things. ISBN 0-201-06918-0
- "Inside the EISA Computers", By Tony Dowden
- "Interfacing to the IBM PC" by Lewis C. Eggebrecht.
Signals, timing diagrams, example circuits, etc. ISBN 0-672-22722-3
- "Interfacing to the PowerPC Microprocessor" Ron Rahmel and
Don Rahmel, SAMS Publishing
- "ISA & EISA: Theory and Operation" by Edward Solari (great info and
timing of the bus hardware -- essential for HW design)
- "Making Printed Circuit Boards" by Axelson, Jan Tab Books, 1993
ISBN 0-8306-3950-0 (hard) 0-8306-3951-9 (paper)
- "Microcontrolers. Architecture, Implementation, & Programming"
by Kenneth Hintz and Daniel Tabak ISBN 0-07-028977-8
- "Microelectronic Circuits" by Sedra and Smith
- "Microprocessor Based Design" by Michael Slater, Prentice Hall, 1989
- "Microprocessor Systems Design" (68000 Hardware, Software, and
Interfacing) by Alan Clements. ISBN 0-87150-095-7
- "Musical Applications of Microprocessors" by Hal Chamberlin
ISBN 0-8104-5753-9
- "PC Programmer's Handbook" by Sanchez and Canton (code examples of
programming the DMA chip)
- "The PowerPC Architecture" IBM book number SR28-5124-00
- "Programmer's Problem Solver for the IBM PC, XT and AT", By Robert
Jourdain, Brady Book, ISBN 0-89303-787-7
info on timer, keyboard, video, disk, parallel and serial port
hardware resources, and software interfacing.
- "PS/2 and PC BIOS Interface Technical Reference: Second Edition"
- "Single- and Multiple-Chip Microcomputer Interfacing" G.J. Lipovski
ISBN 0-13-810557-X (Prentice-Hall Edition)
ISBN 0-13-810573-1 (Motorola Edition)
- "The Book of SCSI" by Peter M. Ridge ISBN: 1-886411-02-6
- "The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface" by Friedhelm Schmidt.
ISBN 0-201-42284-0
- "The XT-AT Handbook" by Choisser and Foster
Magazines:
- The Computer Applications Journal (Circuit Cellar Ink)
PO Box 7694, Riverton, NJ 08077-8784 (609) 786-0409
http://www.circellar.com/
- The Computer Journal (916) 645-1670
1-800-424-8825
FAX: 916-722-7480 BBS: 916-722-5799
P.O. Box 3900, Citrus Heights, CA 95611-3900
tcj@p...
http://www.psyber.com/~tcj/
- Computer Design (508) 692-0700
One Technology Park Drive, P.O. Box 990, Westford, MA 01886
- Dr. Dobbs Journal (415) 358-9500
411 Borel Ave., San Mateo, CA 94402
ftp site - ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj
www site - http://www.ddj.com/
BBS - 415-358-8857
- Electronic Engineering Times (516) 293-3000
500-B Bi-County Boulevard, Farmingdale, NY 11735
- Electronics Now (computer/electonics/hobbyists magazine) 800-999-7139
Reader Service Dept PO Box 5192 Pittsfield MA 01203-9989
- Elektor Electronics (603) 924-6371, 924-6526
Old Colony Sound Lab, P.O. Box 243, Peterborough, NH 03458
World Wide Subscription Service Ltd
Unit 4, Gibbs Reed Farm, Pashley Road, Ticehurst TN5 7HE, England
- Microcomputer Journal (formerly Computer Craft)
76 N. Broadway, Hicksville, NY 11801
- Nuts and Volts 1-800-783-4624, 909-371-8497
fax 909-371-3052
CD-ROM from D.A.T.A. Digest
1-303-799-0381 1-800-447-4666
fax 1-303-700-4082
Over 1.25 million active devices from more than 1000 manufacturers.
These cover trnasistors, linear, diodes, optoelectronics, digital and
microprocessors.
Special thanks to Andrew for the first version of this FAQ.
Thanks also to the following for numerous corrections
and additional information (in no particular order):
Robert Boys, Todd Parker, Howard Matthews,
xian the desk lisard, Sandy Harris, Hai Pham, and
Alan Winstanley, Gilad Barak, Dave Baldwin,
(and my sincere apologies if anyone was
accidentally left off this list).
I attempt to make sure that all information in this FAQ is current
and correct, but I'm only human. If you find a mistake, please
let me know.
Your comments/suggestions/contributions are welcome. E-mail to
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