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Some of the great sites around that I would
highly recommend.
| Site link | Author | Comment | Checked |
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Slightly off the wall sites that I've enjoyed loads |
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| Simply Switch On | Paul Linnell | Fabulous vintage electrical technology museum of the 20th Century home gadgets. | July 2009 |
| Giorgio's Life In Electronics | Giogrgio Cicerchia | Friendly Italian who has documented his years by his technology collection | Apr 2008 |
| Collectors Weekly | Dave Margulius | Have awarded this site in their "Hall of Fame" section - thanks. Worth a browse as it is stuffed with collections that you would never of dreamed of - cool or what! ... or is it nerdy? | Jan 2008 |
| Flickr.com | Rubens Rodrigues | Has done a lovely graphic-art drawing of an Omron calculator | Jan 2008 |
| CwmbranInfo.co.uk | Vintage Technology | Sister site to this one | Dec 2007 |
| Retrothing.com | James Grahame | The Independent Guide to Vintage Technology: nicely designed site that covers vintage and gorgeous looking technology - well worth a good long browse. | Jan 2006 |
| Mike's Electric Stuff | Mike Harrison | Fabulous site stuffed with great images of glass technology, plasma experiments and all sorts of interesting stuff. Mike was kind enough to let me have the counting animation of a nixie tube for the calculator pages. | Mar 2006 |
| mb21 The Wirelist | Mike Brown | TV, transmitters, teletext, news and jokes galore | Mar 2005 |
| Loco Fonic | Gary Yates | Gary (from Australia) has a passing interest in vintage radio, but his real passion is steam trains. Check out this lovely site full of facts but well annotated. | Mar 2005 |
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Vintage Calculator sites |
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| Soviet Calculators | Sergei Frolov | Excellent museum of Russian calculators and loads of fascinating information and pictures of St Petersburg if you want to explore more | Sep 2008 |
| Calculator Technical Information | Mike Sebastian |
Loads of Technical info and forensics/bug analysis and info on ICs (chips). Very well done and a Triple-A site. | Mar 2006 |
| Vintage Calculators | Nigel Tout | British site that carries on the Complete Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators - and more. Incredibly extensive site that I refer to time and time again. | Mar 2006 |
| Jörn's Online Museum | Dr. Jörn Lütjens | German site that has a very in-depth section on Aristo Calculators, whilst his main interest is in slide rules. | Mar 2006 |
| Calculator Museum | Hans Bloemen | Fabulous Dutch calculator site with some very interesting mainland European brands. A must for any collector and a very nice guy. | Mar 2006 |
| Anita Calculators | Nigel Tout | Associated site to the above that explored Anita / Bell Punch calculators in greater detail. | Mar 2006 |
| John Wolff's Museum | John Wolff | Excellent Australian site on mechanical and electronic calculators - with particularly good sections on HP, Canon and Sharp. | Mar 2006 |
| The Old Calculator web Museum | Rick Bensene | If you are interested in early desktop calculators this is a great site. | Mar 2006 |
| Datamath | Joerg Woerner | Specialises in Texas calculators and ICs - which means it covers a broad range. Very thorough research. | Mar 2006 |
| Ernst Mulder's Calculators | Ernst Mulder | Nice details and images - focus on HP Calcs but covers loads of others as well - especially programmable ones. | Mar 2006 |
| Be-Calc | Serge Devidts | The ultimate list of calculators - everyone known list is very useful. Selected good details on a large number of makes. | Mar 2006 |
| Decode Systems | Dan Veeneman | Broad site with a great calculator section | Mar 2006 |
| X-Number | James Redin | Plenty of historical articles and good coverage of mechanical calculators - list of collectors is useful | Mar 2006 |
| Museum of Pocket Calculators | Gerhard Wenzel | German site (in English) with thousands of calculators. A great reference, especially for European calcs. Look out for his classification tree. | Mar 2006 |
| Tony's Calculator Collection | Tony | Nice German/English site with lots of images and good detail | Mar 2006 |
| Casio History | Corporate | Fabulous in-depth history of Casio | Mar 2006 |
| Dentaku Museum | Shinichiro Osaki |
Although mostly Japanese, this is a fabulous site for calculators, their history and adverts with loads of additional information | Mar 2006 |
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Vintage Radio (wireless) and Technology sites which may have extra bits and pieces |
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| Collectics | Karen Lee | Great directory of collector's sites for Antiques and Collectibles | May 2006 |
| British Vintage Wireless Society | Organisation | A must for any radio collector in the UK. Details about subscriptions and forthcoming events. | Mar 2006 |
| Richards Radios | Richard Allan | Site stuffed with radios, telephones, test equipment and miscellaneous pieces of vintage technology. Useful repair information | Mar 2005 |
| Vintage Communication Pages | Jim Beacon | Clocks, radios, military, telephones. television, recording, novelty and test equipment site - what a lot phew! | Mar 2005 |
| Classic Microphones | Larry
Killip |
Section of Larry's site in New Zealand that has loads of Microphones. | Mar 2005 |
| Old Time Supplies | Commercial | Sells information, components, books and all sorts of bits and pieces | Mar 2005 |
| Radio Museum | Ernst Erb | German site that has great ambitions - good luck! | Mar 2005 |
| Radio Memories | Brian Maley | A fellow follower of Rental Radio (having worked at Radio Rentals) this site is worth checking out. Even has a china ornament section. | Mar 2005 |
| On the Air | Organisation | Lovely magazine backed up with an equally lovely site. Sells a wide range of well priced radios and plenty of extra goodies. | Mar 2005 |
| Radiocraft | Steve Ostler | Contains a very extensive directory of Vintage Services, items for sale and bags of information | Mar 2005 |
| Valve Radios and Clocks | Chris Whiting | Close to my own heart - a wide mixture of vintage radios and clocks. Put your speakers on! | Mar 2005 |
| Early Wireless | Lorne Clarke | Nicely revamped site covering crystal sets, valves, components, BBC stamps and valves for sale - who could ask for more? | Mar 2005 |
| The Wireless Works | Organisation | Sells untouched and restored radios with an excellent reference section. | Mar 2005 |
| The Vintage Radio Emporium | David Southworth | Sophisticated site with chat rooms, e-cards and all. Strong on crystal sets and sells books and circuit data. | Mar 2005 |
| Vintage Radio World | Tony Thompson | Lots of info on restoration, valves and components. Tony sells his circuit diagrams and restorations services from this site. | Jul 2005 |
| Vintage Radio Database | Martin Francis | Martin is in Canada but his site is full of British radios from when he lived here. Loads and loads of great images and smarties too. | Mar 2005 |
Vintage Technology/UK History sites |
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| Scantips.com | Wayne Fulton | Very in-depth site on all things scanning. Many of the images on this site are created with a scanner, and this site gives you all the info you would ever need. | Sep 2007 |
| Museum of Computing | Organisation | Not just a web site but a physical museum in Bath dedicated to the history of computing and digital development - lectures etc... | Apr 2005 |
| Marconi History | Company | In-depth history of Marconi and GEC | Mar 2005 |
| Wolverhampton History | Organisation | Nice general history site with a great section on Electrical stuff and memories of days gone by - nice content about Ever Ready Radio. | Mar 2005 |
| TV History | Tom Genova | A fabulous site absolutely crammed with information about TV history - if you have even the slightest interest in TV then use this as a great place to learn. | Mar 2005 |
| Collectable Phones | Connell Blackett | UK site with collectable vintage telephones for sale (I have no experience of purchasing) | Nov 2005 |
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Other web sites that I have found useful |
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| Supanames | Company | This is the web site host I use, and pretty good they are. For a small fee they will register your chosen URL and host your site with some excellent site management tools. | now |
| Snacktime | Company | Supplied FREE vending machines which are fully serviced and maintained at no cost. They make their money from the takings so you have no worries and hassles. Installations form small to large companies. | Mar 2007 |