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This page contains links to excellent resources I have found along my journey. Some are just good sites or vendors. A lot I have formed relationships with over time and found to be trusted resources.
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Shoot me a note if I should add one and I will. I’m constantly editing and adding to this as I literally have 100’s of resources I have acquired. I work on this part of the site when I think about it.
IBM PCjr
Mike Brutman runs the absolute authority on all things PCjr. There’s a strong PCjr following that actively participates in the forum that is part of his site. The site has excellent informative content as well. If you are doing anything with a PCjr, start here!
https://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr.html
TexElect is a fantastic little company that makes a variety of different boards I use. They make and market the JRIDE (Jr IDE Board) as well as other non PCjr helper boards. Kevin and Sara are fantastic and even proactively contacted me when the board they produced might have had an error. Great people, sign up for their email list!
https://texelec.com/blog/
Silicon Graphics Parts
Ira Moser has, in storage, a lot of old SGI gear that he salvaged from Defense contractors about 20 years ago. Ira has been a world of help with my R3000 Indigo that I am currently working on. Personally, I would reach out and give him a call, he doesn’t feature a lot of his SGI stuff on the website. He knows a lot about SGI’s up and down the product chain!
http://www.meco.org/catalog/GENERAL CLEANING
I have not yet purchased anything from SGI Depot but they have a very comprehensive inventory list and probably worth reaching out if you are looking for something special.
http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/vw.html
ZuluSCSI Boards and Software
I now use ZuluSCSI for most of my workstation boxes. I’ve found the product to be very reliable and the ability to drag and drop disk images and cd images are indispensable. In fact, I now host prototype boot images for most of my systems here on the site. I buy my boards from https://www.rabbitholecomputing.com/. They are responsive, the product is excellent and available at a resonable price. I personally us the RP2040 and the compact RP2040.
Fixing Commodore Computers and Peripherals
The absolute bible site for Commodore 64 information is run by Ray Carlson. Ray was an electronic service technician his entire career and a bit of legend in the C64 community. Simply put if you need any in-depth hardware information on a Commodore computer or peripheral this is your place. The site is minimal, mostly directory listings of ascii documents, but there is no better source out there. I exchanged a few emails with Ray a while back and he is a great guy.
https://www.portcommodore.com/rcarlsen/
Sun Hardware Reference
This link contains a good hardware reference for various sun workstations.
http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/informatique/SunHardwareReference/sunfaq.html
Sun DIMM Pusher
When I was reassembling my SPARCstation 10, I found it hard to push the DIMMs into the slot with even force. I noticed in the SS10 reference that Sun would distribute a small plastic part that helped with the installation. I designed one myself and printed it in PLA for my own use. This is the STL file if you would like to print one yourself.