• Facel Vega Homepage, or when french industry knew how to build automobiles, not cars. Wonderful souvenirs of some kilometers in a HK500, many years ago.

 

• COMPONENTS:
• Welcome to Intel
• Motorola
• Welcome to National Semiconductor
• Welcome to Philips
• Rockwell Semiconductor Systems
• Siemens AG
• Texas Instruments

 
• DATABASES:
• Questlink - Electronic components database
• Microcom Technologies - Partminer
• Manufacturing Directory , Manufacturing Links and other Manufacturing Guides

 
• AUDIO: I believe as much in future potential reintroduction of steam engines in general - not only locomotives - because of their intrinsic qualities that audio amplification domain belongs to tubes systems for the same reason (intrinsic qualities).
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• Audio Related Internet World Wide Web & FTP Sites Also solid state links here!
• Triode Electronics-Home Page & World HQ Every info or link required to deal with tube audio, great work, origin of the rec.audio.tubes (RAT for intimates...) news group. Also great for D.I.Y.'ers.
• Svetlana (Russian tubes manufacturer), top quality products, chosen (and often given another "golden" brand...) by many very serious U.S. audio systems manufacturers.
• Antique Electronic Supply, online catalog and ordering system, top quality products & service, fast delivery outside U.S..

 
• HISTORICAL: At first were radio sets...

 
• Boatanchors WEB ring
• Military Boatanchor ring
• Hallicrafters collectors association
• Wireless for the Warrior
• German WW II communication equipement, or why the Germans might loose this war.
• Makers of Boat Anchors
• Nostalgia Air
• 'Real radios have motors'

 
• CURIOSITY

 

 

For those believing that tubes are things of past, have a look at the NASA recent tubes orders!! And look!! Some of  these items were designed in the mid thirties!!!
 

• D.I.Y:

 
• The Sci.Repair.Faq Home page. HIGHLY SUGGESTED to anyone looking to repair his VCR, the T.V. set broken by childrens or a faulty CD-ROM drive. But you always need first a soldering iron and a good multimeter as well as good D.I.Y.er habits and good manual skill! Also very interesting laser equipment description and experiments for hobbyists, excellents links to other electronic related sites. A MUST!
  
  
• TESLA COILS Sparks!!
  
  
• Tesla Web Ring
  
  
• SUPPLIERS:

 
• Radiospares: More than 88,000 items in stock; Great, even if the prices are rather high. Excellent service. English site available.

 

• Metal Web News. Excellent. Lots of good practical information, lists of suppliers, links, ...
• Blacksmith Related Web Sites

 

 

Motorcycles: 

 My relationship with them is very similar with the one I have with steam in general. Also, sorry, only REAL MOTORCYCLES related links here!

• NORTON OWNERS CLUB - Homage, my beloved mount is a "special brew" featherbed based 750 c.c. café racer I built in 1975, hope to use it forever!
• Andover Norton International (Home Page), Cheers, brave British! The OLDEST motorcycle brand surviving in the world - 100 years in '98! And sincerely the most usable online catalog fore spare parts orders I've used. Congratulations to developers.
• Stewart Engineering - The Sunbeam Specialists They allow to the few owners of those rare machines to keep them on the road since 1960. Enthusiastic buisness. My second mount (I'm actually restoring it after  25 years of happy ownership).

• Richard's Britten Motorcycle Page. My opinion is that it is really a nice piece of end of the 20th century engineering. Hope the machine and company will survive to his creator. A perfect example of old concepts (dating from the late XIXth century, this remark concerning both cyclepart and engine of the Britten's) made feasible only a few years ago, thanks to very recent materials associated with C.N.C. tools!
• The Vincent-HRD Home Page. Same comment about engineering that for Richard BRITTEN except for period (forties), the most technically advanced motorcycle of the time, and I think that people with some technical background will understand why us French say "La vie est un éternel recommencement", lit. tr.: "Life is an eternal new beginning", comparing these two winner designs.

 

• The REAL Frank ZAPPA homepage: The major composer of the 20th century??
• Z.Z. TOP's homepage. Superior American folklore.
• Jimi Hendrix. I listen to his music since '67. No, lassitude will never come. If I had to choose a single record to take with me before to leave for an indefinite period on a desert island, it would surely be his "Bold as love" album. Serious infos and material (tablatures, lyrics, etc.), seems to be a good site, even if I haven't enough spare time to have visited it completely.
• The Johnny Winter Story. He is a most appreciated bluesman here in France It does'nt make a lot of fans however, as there is not a huge number of real blues lovers down here.
• Lou Reed homepage.

 

I only appreciate these in their initial Electro-Mechanical shape.

• PINBALL HQ.COM : Pinball Repair Guides. Collector buys Pinball, Baseball machines
• The Pinball Pasture: The most exhaustive database, including photos, production run, ...
• Pinball Web Ring
• IRPinball Wonderful freeware allowing to create ANY virtual pinball table and backbox;

 

• SEARCH ENGINES:

 

 
 
 

• HOSTING:

 

 
 
 

• Large Natural Breasts and Nipples: A very fun and interesting site. Packed with a huge dose of typically British humour.

 
• The Pin-Up page. The name itself says all! Seriously an excellent art site, famous tribute to what I think to be a very interresting kind of pop-art. Great paintings, featuring the most famous artists