link legacy

Now revised, expanded and slightly organized into something approaching categories. Some of these hearken back to usenet days, apologies in advance if they’re broken, feel free to chastise

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engines|individuals|manufacturers|distributors|microchip|link collections|institutions|publications & forums|desktop publish|reference|resource|company|patent|programming & applications|hardware & gaming|miscellany

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1. AltaVista
2. WebCrawler
3. Slider
4. Lycos
5. Excite
6. DejaNews
7. White Pages
8. Google
   

   
   

   individuals

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9. Bill Beaty’s homepage
   Science/technical links, hobbiest info.
   
10. Eric’s Treasure-Trove pages
    Many physical science definitions.
    
11. Dr Karl
    Knows the answers to the questions which normal people ask.
    
12. Hillman’s Homepage
    Great Relativity/Entropy links [Ed] alas, seems to have left the web for now
    
13. Dilbert
    
14. Don Lancaster’s Guru’s Lair
    x years later, still the best electronics link collection on the web
    
15. Red Green
    handyman/sportsman/everyman red green was not unlike monty python back in the day
    
16. The Mighty Boosh
    surreal british humor from (chiefly) two guys; brilliant, inspired and trippy [ED] although season 3 sux beyond all measure

    
    

    manufacturers

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17. Hansen Corp. stepper motors
    
18. Stepper Motors, Positioning Stages and Stepper Controls Manufacturer–Phytron, Inc.
    
19. Arsape, Miniature Drive Systems
    
20. Coreless Motors by MicroMo Electronics
    
21. Murata Electronics North America
    
22. Polaroid OEM
    
23. Ericsson

24. Thermometrics
    Thermisistors. Informative datasheets on NTC/PTC type materials etc.
    
25. Velleman Components
    Make thermisistors, transducers et al.
    
26. Solenoid Valves from IMI WEBBER Ltd.
    
27. Magnatrol Valve Corp.
    
28. Bosch
    
29. Flotec Pumps
    
30. Motorola Semiconductors
    Great source for datasheets.
    
31. National Semiconductors
    ditto
    
32. Agilent
    ditto
    
33. Toshiba
    ditto

34. Texas Instruments
    ditto
    
    
35. Panasonic
    ditto
    

    
    

    distributors

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36. alltronics
    
37. allelectronics
    
38. Avnet Electronics Marketing
    
39. RS-components
    Outstanding source for engineering components.
    
40. Farnell
    ditto
    
41. Digikey
    ditto (U.S.)
    
42. Newark
    ditto (U.S.)
    
43. Radioshack
    
44. Barnes and Noble
    
45. Amazon

    
    

    microchip

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46. Microchip
    Home of the versitile PIC.
    
47. JDM programmer
    A very popular homebrew programmer.
    
48. IC-PROG software
    Program the PIC micro et al
    
49. HI-TECH Software
    C Cross Compilers for Embedded Systems
    
    

    link collections

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50. TIPTOP
    Physics resource, esp. jobs
    
51. Physics education resources
    
52. Epanorama
    Superb set of links put together by T. Engdahl.

    
    

    institutions

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53. Caltech physics

54. Jet Propulsion Labs
    
55. American Institute of Physics
    
56. University of Queensland Dept of Physics
    
57. Lawrence Livermore
    
58. NASA
    
    
59. Dept Applied Science, Engineering at Harvard
    
60. 
    Physics Department Museum
    
61. American Physical Society
    
62. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

    
    

    publications

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63. Lanl preprints
    

64. Virtual Journals
    

65. Physical Review Online Archive
    
    
66. Scientific American
    
    
67. Amateur Radio Newsline[tm] Home Page
    
68. Popular mechanics
    
    
69. Electronics Australia

70. CIA World Fact Book
    
71. National Geographic
    
72. Rosebud Magazine
    Writer’s magazine, usually quite good.
    
    
73. InternetWeek

74. Physics Forums
    
75. Slash Dot

    
    

    desktop publish

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76. Wade’sHTML tutorial
    Excellent primer from the nineties.
    

77. Help On LaTeX Commands
    
78. LaTeX and BibTeX
    
79. Postcript fonts
    
80. Post Script
    Info/software including gost-view links etc.
    
81. LaTeX Primer
    Produce professional documents using this tidy article.
    
82. WinEdit
    Powerful windows editing shell (shareware). You will need Miktex or equivalent to compile LaTeX
    
83. Miktex TeX compiler

    
    

    reference

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84. Physics FAQ
    
    
85. Online Documentation for Matlab etc.
    

86. The Fusion FAQ
    
    
87. Lens FAQ
    
    
88. Sam’s Laser FAQ
    A wealth of information.
    
    
89. Online Radio and Electronics course.
    

90. Jim Lux and high volts.
    

91. Internet faq consortium
    A faq for everything under the sun.
    
    
92. Voltage Divider Calculator
    
93. Jones on Stepping Motors
    
94. Ultra-Wide Bandwidth
    
95. Digital Signal Processing FAQ

    
    

    resource

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96. Laboratory Robotics Interest Group Home
    
97. IEC: Online Education
    
98. Electrobase
    
    
99. Electronics Web
    
100. SciNet
     General sciences resource.
     
     
     

     company

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101. Applied Wave Research

102. The MathWorks
     Developers of MATLAB and Simulink for Technical Computing.
     

103. Aether Wire
     
104. Holophase
     
     

     patent

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105. The Invention Dimension
     
106. Search www.entrepeneur.com
     
107. Independent Inventors Resources Website
     
108. Patent search
     

     
     

     programming & applications

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109. Old versions of software
     
110. Circad
     
111. Programmers Heaven
     Outstanding.
     
     
112. GNU
     Needs no introduction.
     

113. C/C++ programming HQ
     Useful, great tutorials.
     
     
114. DJGPP
     Most popular (freeware) C/C++ compiler.
     
     
115. Bloodshed Software
     Have a very popular compiler also, but I haven’t tried it.
     
     
116. Driver guide
     Very useful when you like buying random bits of used hardware.
     

     
     

     hardware & gaming

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117. The Beowulf Project
     Parallel Computation
     

118. Tom’s Hardware

119. Debian GNU/Linux user Documentation
     
120. Linux Documentation Project
     

121. PC tutorial
     
     
122. Usenet faqs
     
123. HardwareEmulation sites FAQ
     
     
124. MAME32
     The most popular emulator on the globe.
     
     
125. Classic Gaming
     
     
126. ign.com
     
127. GameSpot UK

     
     

     miscellany

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128. Brisbanethings to do in Brisvegas
     
129. Australian Tourism Info
     
     
130. Sev wide web
     Desktop publishing info & satire
     
131. Reformed Theology
     Excellent.
     
132. Cartoon Network
     
     
133. DC Comics
     

134. Google Maps