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Reichelt in Germany
used to be very cheap with first class components. They do mailorder throughout Europe. COD (Cash On
Delivery) or prepaid. From 2006 on, they are getting too expensive with minimu order charges of EUR 200.
Conrad used to be a little bit more expensive, but they have a much bigger assortment and a lot of goodies. Check out their site and store. Plus the catalog of course. They have almost free shipments so they are more interesting than Reichelt by now. Looking for PC hardware? Stop looking after you visited Alternate . They're inexpensive, reliable and fast. In the USA I can sincerely recommend Jameco as a first class supplier of any kind of component or instrument. You MUST check out their site every month at least. And order their catalog. A true WIS-ser reads their cat from cover to cover. But, for the us counts (Ch)3: Check the Chipping Charges! Also in the USA is JDR MicroDevices . This is also a first class supplier, but it focusses more on current equipment. Check out their site and catalog. Both are very good. JDR and Jameco are the Reichelt of the USA. Also here: (Ch)3!
A shop in The Hague, Holland that sell used parts is
Now that's It.
Old mainboards, old CPU's, harddisks, memory, you name it. You get a fair price, and one month warranty. It's
for the people among us who rather pay EUR 10 for a 1.6 GB disk that will be used instead of paying EUR 75
for a 40 GB disk that will remain mostly empty.
If you're looking for an overview of current micro controller boards, just click here. |
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Below you will find a list of some of my favorite chipmakers. If I forgot some, due to the above mentioned
twitty action, please inform me.
I have always loved Zilog . They make my kind of chips and have always stood up against Intel. Luckily their chips are so good that they can be buried into toasters and nuclear missiles, unlike Intel chips which need frequent manual intervention (i.e. pushing the reset button). This line does not mean I agree with nuclear missiles (or toasters) but I am mighty glad that the average cruise missile is NOT controlled with an Intel Pentium IV running ANY flavor of Windows. Press F4 to change course, F1 to detonate now. Oh shit, where's the damned keyboard.... Check out Motorola for real microprocessor chips. Their 68xxx line is still superb, even after 20+ years of active duty. Imagine that, if IBM would have had stocks in Moto instead of Intel: A PC XT with a 486-like CPU in 1982. Where would we have been now? 1024 bit CPU's? Better not think about it. Eric Isaacson would have had a dog of a time writing a 1k-bit assembler for it! For microcontrollers there is this other company that deliver performance at good cost: Microchip of Arizona . Some of their european field engineers use my I2C monitor when they got really stuck. :o) |
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There is a lot of cool software on this website of course. Check out the
Modula-2 pages
and download a very fine Modula-2 compiler for free..
If looking for the finest assembler in the world, check out Eric Isaacsons site and download the A86 and D86 combo for a free trial period. If you register the both, you get the A386 and D386 packages for free.
Cool DOS software is still available from
Simtel
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Check out their site. You won't need Windows, unless you're addicted to mouse bars and fancy colours.
If you have a digital camera and want to control it from DOS or Linux, visit Bruce Lightner's pages. These are fun pages to go through anyway, so take your time and check out his complete site. You won't regret is. If you want access to his PhotoPC software, please follow the link and choose the latest version. |
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Please visit
Bart Gevert's site
about the Parino card. He has his own server in a closet running Apache under Linux under the stairs. It's
worth while the time.
The Websmurf has a professional quality website with over 300 hits per day from all over the world. If you fancy the 8051 family (preferably the Siemens SAB series of controllers) this site is an absolute MUST to visit. The Haatsmurf also has a lot to tell to the world. His site is completely English as well. Read his pages and enjoy his witty comments and projects. Izabella Malcolm, the ladysmurf, has a very neat site at izabella. Check it out. Together with San (the hatesmurf) she made the SITCOM initiative. Have yourself inspired by their dreams and make your own SITCOM. Don't forget to tell us all about it.
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