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Model Railroad - General
National Model Raiload Association
NMRA Standards and Recommended Practices
NMRA Directory of World Wide Rail Sites – A-Train Systems appears under 'Manufacturers - Electronics/DCC' for reasons best known to the managers of the site!
Colorado Railway Museum – useful range of books of interest to the railroad modeller
Cochise & Western Model Railroad Club – located in Sierra Vista, Arizona, the principal users of A-TRACK. Their website tends to move around, and this link points to the latest known copy of their pages.
Model Railroader – the best source of information on US model rairoading
Track Planning – the best layout design software I have come across (3rd Plan-It)
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Model Railroad – DCC Systems & Decoders
Digitrax – supplier of most of the decoders I use, and source of a great deal of useful information on the implementation of DCC
Lenz – originator of the control system on which DCC is based
Model Railroading with DCC WebRing – wide range of interesting sites
DCC UK WebRing – some duplication with world-wide DCC Webring
DMOZ Open Directory Project (DCC) – set of links directly relevant to model railroading with DCC
Rutger Friberg – author of books on, and developer of, DCC hardware
Model Railroading Electronics WebRing – general electronics projects, not necessarily related to DCC
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Model Railroad - Equipment Suppliers
Walthers – huge range of all things related to model railroads - excellent service via mail order
Caboose Hobbies – haven’t bought very much from them, but their very large store in Denver, Colorado was well worth the visit
Sunbird Train Mart – very helpful and obliging – wide range of books available by mail order
Tony’s Train Exchange – recommended by friends as offering the best prices for DCC equipment – lots of useful information available
Tried & True Trains – useful set of links to model railroad information, suppliers, and background on DCC
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Electronics Suppliers (UK)
Farnell – widest range of electronic components for the professional (available to anyone)
Combined Precision Components (CPC) – very wide range of domestic and industrial equipment and components (not just electronics and computers) at very reasonable prices (actually a division of Farnell)
RS Components – similar range to Farnell but less specialised
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Atari Computers
Atari Archives – information still available for the dedicated enthusiast – including the full text of many reference books such as ‘Mapping the Atari’ and ‘Assembly Language Programming for the Atari Computers’
ABBUC eV – the very active Atari Bit Byter User Club, based in Germany – their comprehensive and well-maintained website has a host of links to all things Atari
Nick Kennedy’s Page – features SIO2PC, a program to turn a PC into an Atari fileserver and without which A-TRACK would have been almost impossible to develop. Thanks, Nick !
B & C Computer Visions – still going strong as a source of Atari hardware and software
Computer Software Services – the home page of Bob Puff, creator of MyDOS, the Black Box, and BobTerm, the best comms program for the Atari 8-Bit – again very useful in developing A-TRACK. This website has not been updated for some time.
Atari 8-Bit WebRing – such Atari 8-Bit sites that still exist
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Microprocessors & Personal Computers
Microchip – manufacturers of the PIC range of single-chip microcontrollers – lots of data and development information available
Lakeview Research – reference information and software for developers of PC peripherals – USB, parallel, and serial ports
Nectix – USB development amongst other services
Microsoft Knowledge Base Search – although often maligned, Microsoft provides an enormous amount of free information on almost any PC topic
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