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Interesting Websites

Here is a list of some of my favorite websites, references, and resources. I hope you will find them usefully and interesting as much as I do. You can use the search function to find specific types of Websites. All links open in a new window. If you find bad or broken links, please email me at this link.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the following Websites and therefore present them with no responsibility or liability on my behalf.

Electronics

Free Service Manuals

This is a fantastic free resource for finding operator and service manuals for all kinds of electronic devices. There are thousands of manuals for all kinds devices from televisions to test instruments. If you have a manual upload it, if you need a manual, download it. Check it out, you may find it useful if you repair electronics or just looking for that owner’s manual you have lost.

http://www.eserviceinfo.com/

Electronics

Elliott Sound Products

Elliott Sound Products, a website run by Rod Elliott, provides a vast array of interesting, educational, and useful articles including over 100 do it yourself (DIY) electronic projects, most dealing with audio and power supplies. One of his articles concerns the compact florescent light (CFL) debate. Compact florescent lights are now mandatory in Australia where Rod lives. His analysis contains a great deal of technical detail and prompts good questions concerning the wisdom of this world-wide movement, including what is happening to the people who work at the factories in China where the bulbs are produced. You will also find the PC boards and other items used in the projects for sale on the website.

http://sound.westhost.com/

Internet Trivia

You can thank the Cold War for the Internet. It was conceived by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1960s for the United States military to maintain tactical communications between military sites in the event of an atomic attack.

It was called the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or ARPANET for short. Once the domain of only the military and universities, it eventually became public and is now what we call The Internet. The Military still has their own Internet, faster, better than ours, but perhaps when they get a new one, we will get the old one for our pleasure.