Note-I moved my anti-virus stuff to http://world.std.com/~dgp/virus.html
A link to a review including a systems I built in PCWorld, 5/97.
Hard drive mfgrs:
Western Digital (w/ftp)
(w/ftp),
,
Maxtor,
Samsung.
Check out PC Disk, a nice German database (in English) of hard drives, specs, jumper settings, and so on. Not totally up to date, but with a great deal of some more obscure information.
SuperDisk and Winstation's combo SuperDisk/CD-ROM
Video card mfgrs
S3 / Diamond Multimedia Products,
(w/ftp),
ATI,
Hercules ,
Number Nine, and
Galaxie Group.
Monitors
Viewsonic,
CTX,
Delta,
AOC,
Samsung,
KFC/Smile, and
LG-Goldstar.
(also Soundblaster.com),
Turtle Beach,
Koss Speakers,
Labtec Speakers,
Bose,
Altec Lansing,
MLI Speakers,
and Cambridge SoundWorks
Chip makers: 
,
,
Cyrix / VIA US, (The Cyrix 6x86 Upgrade Advice Guide),
Texas Instruments,
Motorola,
,
S3, good for drivers
Trident Microsystems,
ARKLogic,
Via Technologies,
ESS Technologies,
NeoMagic (notebook video chipset),
and Alliance.
Motherboard mfgrs:
America,
Taiwan,
Advanced Integration Research,
Elite Group (ECS),
Asustek ,
Tyan,
EFA,
MicroStar (MSI Taiwan),
Giga-Byte,
DFI,
QDI, and
Chaintech.
Motherboards.Org
Tom's Hardware Guide
(Newer URL?)
Anand's Hardware page,
Motherboard Guide,
Enlight cases,
Suntek cases,
Chen Ming cases,
Axxion server cases,
Antec power supplies and cases,
Sparkle Power power supplies
AMI BIOS
Phoenix , and
Mr BIOS (BIOS upgrades and some good m.b. and chipset info)
Plextor,
Teac,
LG Electronics,
NEC,
Delta,
IOMega (w/ftp).
Fidelity Int'l Technologies (FIT) make extneral hard drives, cd-rom drives, and kits.
I thought CD Information Center was very useful.
DVD resource.
Controllers:
Adaptec (w/ftp),
DTC,
ConnectCom (formerly AdvanSys),
Promise, and
DPT.
Modems: Delrina (w/ftp), Supra, Boca, GVC/Maxtech, and Zyxel (ISDN)
Printers:
HP
Network cards:
Xircom,
3Com,
SMC,
Genius
(see the Taiwan site),
and Novell
Laptop people: Toshiba, Zenith, Jetta,
PCMCIA card makers: Actiontec, Simple Technologies, Accton, and Linksys
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On-line Magazines Ziff Davis (PC Mag, Computer Shopper),
PC Magazine, CRN,
Lockergnome,
Interactive Age,
Inter@ctive Week,
Computer Currents,
Computers.Com (C/Net)
and
(Back Issues)TechWeb's page of links,
PC World Online, and Weblust
Other distributers: Ingram Micro, NECX, and Insight (which is another good jump point)
ACDSee viewer for windows. Pegasus E-Mail reader
NMB technologies, Keytronics (keyboards)
CI Design (enclosures)
Lava, makers of PCI I/O cards
Windows '95 FAQ,
for good old Microsoft
Upgrades (Add-ons) to
,
,
RealAudio,
WSFTP
For equal time, try
Sunbelt's NT Utility newsletter, and
Sunbelt's list of NT links
(See here for more NT, Security, and training/certification links) or
OS/2 Home Page and
OS/2 FAQ.
OS/2 Shareware.
Maybe Linux Home page, or
Linux International.
CICA shareware ftp site (has '95 stuff)
Jumbo shareware site
WebTwin, a utility to download a web site and convert it to a help file
For useful local resources, try: The World, Shore, TIAC, and/or UltraNet (these are Boston area providers).
Intelligent Computer Solutions makes hard drive replicators ('Blasters')
Micro-A Connectors, cables, etc
Office Computing (PC Computing Mag's site for help using various office packages
Suite User, Ziff Davis's site for general Suite info
Ghost software (bought by Symantec)
Computer Professionals, now BitWise Designs' retail outlet. I worked at BitWise for 4 years.
Jem (mostly refurnished stuff. Out of Cambridge)
Denis Parslow dgp@world.std.com
Last edited 8/3/2000.