.().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().() | | Technical Catalogs, Supplies, and Sources for | High-technology Goods.... | | .().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().().() The following is a listing of places where you can get high-tech goods, toys, and other fun things to spend yours (or someone elses) credit on. I assume no responsiblity for what you do with said goods, but hey, There's enough here to keep you busy for awhile, right? --> Cybernetik 01/01/92 --------- Lasers and IR devices --------- >>>> Resources Unlimited 603-668-2499 Information/Assistance/Orders - Lasers, Night Vision, High-voltage electronics, Electronic Eavesdropping I picked up a catalog from this guy at an MIT swapfest. He usually has a booth there, and tons of laser goods. He also sells sets of night-vision goggles and infrared image converters. (the piece which makes "night vision" possible. Excellent prices on 15mW+ Argon Heads/complete lasers. Call for a catalog... >>>> Unicorn Electronics 800-824-3432 Orders 818-341-8833 International Orders 818-998-7975 FAX 818-341-8833 Technical Support - Laser Diodes, Laser Tubes, Dynamic RAMS, EPROMS, Robotics I've never ordered from this place before, but their catalog looks impressive... They're nice enough to give you full specs on their laser tubes (firing voltage, tube length, operating voltage/current, etc.. >>>> Meredith Instruments 602-934-9387 Orders 602-939-3369 FAX - Laser tubes, laser pens, X-Y Scanners (pusedo-galvos) Free catalogs.. Seems that they're exactly like MWK , except MWK has much better prices. Never ordered from them.. caveat empor.. >>>> Midwest Laser Products 708-403-6984 Orders Snail-Mail: PO Box 2187 / Bridgeview, IL 60455 - Diode lasers, laser tubes, laser optics, holography Call/write for a free catalog. This is one of the few places that you can get laser power supply _kits_ from. Most other places sell fully assembled supplies. >>>> MWK Industries 800-356-7714 Orders / Tech Support (Free Help!) 714-278-4887 FAX Snail-Mail: 1269 W Pomona Rd / #110 / Corona, CA 91720 - Surplus, laser diodes, laser tubes, laser show equiptment, optics, holography. Large Company... VERY nice. Free catalogs! This place is _AMAZING_ for lazer supplies. good prices, quick delivery It's where I've purchased every single piece of laser equiptment that I own. They even sell things for Large-Scale laser shows. Galvonometers and smoke machines, including a board for your IBM that'll let you control / create 3-dimensional spinning/twisting laser graphics ... MWK will even spec out your laser tubes if you want them to, and send you a color spectral analysis of the tube, for a small fee. --------- Electronics/Electronic Repair --------- >>>> Contact East 508-682-2000 Telephone orders 508-688-7829 FAX 508-683-9673 Data Snail-Mail: 335 Willow St, South / North Andover,MA 01845-5995 - LAN testing equpitment, Chemicals, Oscilliscopes, Test equpitment This is the company that your local _BellCo_ buys from. They sell Lineman's handsets, DTMF decoder units, and all sorts of incredible tech. gear (with prices to boot...aggghhh) NO minumum order, Same Day Shipping. They also make a plethra of devices that conform to ANSI ESD specs. (i.e. they're nice to your precious silicon!) >>>> DAK Industries (375) 800-DAK-0800 Orders 800-888-9818 Technical Information Only (No Orders) 800-888-7808 Any other Inquries [ Where's my fucking order, assholes? ] 800-888-6703 TDD [ Yippie, 110 baud ] 818-888-2837 FAX Orders - Surplus stereo components , home of BSR electronics Besides having far too many phone numbers, DAK has tons of fun electronics stuff for cheapo prices. Tons of "audiophile" gear, and cheapo classical CD's. Home automation supplies, Infrared alarm systems, Ways to hitch your computer so that it'll be in control of all the lights/appliances/etc in your home. Their operators are incomptent, and slow. Never placed an order with DAK, so I have no clue how long it takes. >>>> Fry's Electronics 415-496-6100 Orders Snail-Mail: 340 Portage Avenue / Palo Alto, CA 94306 - Semiconductors, Crystals, misc. components Advertised in 2600 Magazine... No minimum order and quick delivery. They almost always have 6.5xx Mhz crystals in stock... >>>> JDR Microdevices 800-535-5000 Orders (8am -> 5pm) 800-535-5001 Customer Service 800-535-5002 Technical support 800-535-5005 FAX 408-559-0253 BBS Snail-Mail: 2233 Samaritan Dr / San Jose, CA 95124 - 80286/386/486 motherboards, Electronic Components, PC gear Decent service, lots of computer equiptment, and excellent selection of IC's and crystals.. They also sell Amiga supplies and parts, EPROM burners, and a limited array of test gear . I do most of my electronics ordering through this place... The only major problem they have is a $15 minimum on orders. Sucks when you just want one or two crystals... Their prices blow Radio Shack away.. --------- Computer Supplies --------- >>>> MEI/Micro Center 800-634-3478 Orders / Tech. Support Snail Mail: 1100 Steelwood Rd / Columbus, OH 43212 - Diskettes & computer accessories Not to be lame or anything, but this place has the best prices on floppy disks/generic computer garbage I've seen in ages. Mail orders are extremely slow from MEI. They suck at shipping but its worth the wait... -------- Electronic Spying Equiptment -------- >>>> Amazing Concepts 603-673-4730 Snail-Mail: BOX 716 / Amherst, NH 03031 - Sub-Minature FM bugs This place sells bugs no larger than a dime. They transmit 3 miles on FM radio frequencies. They sell one with a microphone for voice, and another that hitches directly to the phone line. About $34 for the FM bugs, and for $19.50 you can get an automatic recording device for telephone lines (same price as radio shack, except theirs is much much smaller...) >>>> Information Unlimited 800-221-1705 Orders 603-673-4730 Orders <24 hours> 603-672-5406 FAX Snail-Mail: PO BOX 716, Dept R3 Amherst,NH 03031 - Lasers, Pain-Field generators, Tesla Coils, Security Devices Seems like the people from "Amazing Concepts" are actually running two companies. Same address, nonetheless. Anyhow: call for a catalog. They say they want $1.00 for a catalog. fuck 'em . they'll send you one for zero. They also sell kits for stun guns, 100,000 volt pain field machines, and lots of high-voltage toys. --------- Other --------- >>>> BugBusters 516-929-3261 Orders 516-929-0772 FAX - Lockpicks, "FBI/CIA" equiptment, phone taps, brass knuckles hard to find "black market" goods More lockpicks to choose from than EnCom (see below) and possibly better service Never ordered from them before, but I've heard decent reports. >>>> EnCom Industries 716-852-3711 Snail-Mail: 10 Howard Street / Buffalo, NY 14206 - Lockpicks, police supplies Extremely slow service. I've had problems ordering from them, and I'm still awaiting a set of lockpicks that I ordered from them weeks ago.. They sell a couple sets, one for about $30: an 11-piece set that fits into a pen, and a 16-piece set for about $50 that has tools for extremely difficult locks. This all assumes that you can pick. >>>> Parts Express 800-338-0531 Snail-Mail: 340 East 1st St / Dayton, OH 45402 - Speaker supplies, coverings, car stereo This place took out a bunch of ads in an old Radio/Electronics magazine.. They sell tons of woofers,tweeters, and individual speaker assemblies. I'm planning to place an order with this company to build some monster PA speakers... Seems like a decent place; I'll tell you how it works out in the 2nd edition. $15 minimum on orders. >>>> USI 800-243-4565 Orders/Assistance 203-481-7508 FAX Snail-Mail: P.O. Box 644 / 33 Business Park Dr / Branford, CT 06405 - Lamination and security tag suppliers Wanna make Fake ID's ? This place will supply you with proper sized lamination and the machines to create I.D.'s. For roughly $1000 you get a professional camera and lamination system. (Hell, now if only we could forge the stupid little holograms that they stuff on all the drivers licences...) Smaller machines are available... call for a catalog. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All for now. I'll try and send out a 2nd version of this when I find a few more of my catalogs. If anything, this will get you started. Send changes / updates / information to jna@gnu.ai.mit.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------