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Computers

Software is often times ported to many different hardware platorms. I have lumped all software together, specifing the platforms available when I know it.

Computers can be divided into some basic catagories:

• Mainframes
• Mini-computers such as Unix workstations (i.e. Sun workstations, RS/6000 workstations, etc.)
• Micro-Computers such as PCs or Macs .
• Palmtops which started out life as glorified organizers, but have become compact programming environments. I personally think the PDA should be replaced by the PDE.
• Settops are a bit of a stretch to call "computers" per see, but fill a niché internet market.

Most of these types of computers use various peripheral devices:

• Memory
• Flash Media (USB drives, SD cards, etc.)
• SCSI hardware (cables, terminators, switches, extenders, etc.)
• Floppy drives (and high capacity removable media, like Zip/Jazz drives)
• Tape drives for backing up your data
• CDROM drives, CDROM jukeboxes, CD-R archivers, MO optical drives, etc.
• Hard Drives
• RAID boxes
• Standalone NFS/SMB/CIFS file servers
• Serial Ports
• Modems
• Scanners
• Printers
• Routers, terminal servers, etc. and cables
• Monitors
• Media (diskettes, tapes, etc.)
• Uninterruptable Power Supplies and Power Cables
• Misc.
• Many of these items can be had from Computer SuperStores

• Hypertext
• PostScript
• E-mail
• Cyphers and Encryption
• Security
• Virii (plural of Virus)
• Networking
• My own ISO-Latin-1 ASCII chart
• Before there was the internet, there were Bulliten Board Systems (BBSes) [replaced largely by web sites now]

• Computer Organzations
• Computer Training
• Computer Books and Magazines (including E-Zines)
• Computer News from C|Net
• Internet Service Providers
• WhatIs.Com's Computer related Cheat Sheets

Last Updated: 03-Nov-2008