Most of these place don’t exist anymore but its a stroll down memory lane if you lived in Toronto.
Thanks to David Neto for the OldSkool Content.
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~neto/
- Computer systems (and generally parts and software too)
- Compumemories (Updated July 28, 1997: now a website)
- CTS Computers
- DMI CD-Recording Store (This is email, not a web site.)
- EPROM Computer Systems — wholesalers and distributers
- Factory Direct Computer Outlet — on College St.
- Finnegan Software Inc. specializing in small office, home office service. No forced OS preloads.
- Grey Tech Computer Inc. (link updated January 31, 1998)
- Holly Technology — downtown location, updated August 1, 1997
- KLM Computers
- Lance Computers (This is email, not a web site.)
- Logic Computer House
- Maxibyte (This is email, not a web site.)
- Micron Electronics Inc.
- Micronics Computers
- OTA Computer Centre (prices checked on April 22, 1997 were updated as of January 1996. Get with the programme!)
- OZ Tech Computers (link updated April 22, 1997)
- PC Outlet — Specializing in used Compaq systems, and upgrade parts
- QMARK Technologies Inc.
- SBI Computer Products
- STD Systems Inc.
- Steals Direct Computer Superstores
- TOR.FORSALE
- Transduction — rackmounted Pentium systems
- Tribus Computer
- Ultinet
- Computer parts and consumables
- BEF Computer Services “updated daily”
- Computer Consumables Buyers Club
- Epson — printers
- IC Technology
- JG Computer Systems (advertised RAM in tor.forsale.computers)
- Partners in Memories (This is email, not a web site.)
- Tuscon Computer Corp. 30 pin to 72 pin adapter board (This is email, not a web site.)
- YL System and Netowork Services
- Software
- AVR Corporation — Solutions in Experiential Computing.
- The CD-ROM Store
- Corel
- Dolmen Software Inc.
- GreenPoint Software Ltd.
- House of Technology Your Canadian source of OS/2 Applications
- Indelible Blue
- Intuit
- Microforum masters of the new art
- Internet service providers
- Accesss Route Canada
- All Systems Go
- Aurora Communications Exchange “The secure global e-mail system”. (Not a full ISP?)
- canlinks.com Inc.
- Castle Com Net Online Inc.
- Echo Online (This is an email address, not a web site.)
- Enterprise Online
- Globalserve Communications
- HookUp Communications
- ICA Canada Online Inc.
- IPG
- Interlog Internet services
- Internet Canada
- Internet Direct
- Internet Light and Power
- ISB.CA Canada’s Internet
- iStar Internet Inc.
- Little Blue Planet — web services for small to medium businesses
- Microset
- Myna Communications
- Netcom Canada
- Northern Link
- ONRAMP Network Servces
- Outer-Net Technology
- Pathway Communications
- Spectra Net
- TerraPort Online Inc.
- Unicom Online
- VisiNet for Internet
- WebPath Communications
- WorldWide Online
- X-Trak Business Systems Specialists
- Other computer-related services
- Access Teach
- ACT Hands-on computer training
- Book Ends the book and multi-media store
- Canada Internet World 96 registration form and conference program
- Computer Fest 96
- The Computer Paper Online
- ActionFront Data Recovery Labs
- Digital Xpression “Toronto’s premier World Wide Web consultants” — but they haven’t got a web site: only email! Go figure.
- Dotto’s Data Cafe TV and radio show.
- PC Imaging Inc. Windows pre-press specialists
- Patrick W. Mathieu Internet consulting
- Microforum “develops multimedia products for government and corporate clients”.
- NEXX Online — “virtual domain web hosting provider”
- NTS Internet Solutions
- ONRAMP Real Estate Database
- Scanetics Logo and signature fonts
- Starlight Incorporated “Canada’s leading technology training company”
- UofT Bookstore
- Services unrelated to computers
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- Corporate main pages and main computer products pages.
- Adaptec and their products
- Adobe and their products
- Advanced Micro Devices and their AMDK6 processor
- Apple and their products
- AVR Corporation — Solutions in Experiential Computing.
- Brother and their products
- Canon and Canon computer products
- Conner and their products
- Creative Labs
- Epson and Epson products
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
- Iomega and their products
- Lexmark (a printers-only subdivision of IBM) and their products
- Lotus
- NEC and NEC products
- Okidata and their products
- Seagate
- Service Track
- Syquest
- Western Digital and their products(hard drives and controllers)
- Business Services
- Service Track — Web-based product tracking.
- Hardware
- Personal computer systems
- Apple destop systems and portable computers
- Hewlett Packard home computers and business computers
- IBM PCs (the real thing!)
- Monitors
- Printers and imaging
- Storage
- Peter den Haan’s storage page
- Microhouse Hard Drive Criteria Search — for hard drive parameters and jumper settings.
- Adaptec SCSI controller boards (PCI, VLB, and others)
- Colorado Memory Systems, a division of HP, sells tape backup systems.
- Conner (now merged with Seagate) disk and tape products
- Iomega Ditto tape products and Zip removable disk drives and Jaz removable disk drives
- Seagate and their hard drives
- Western Digital
- Multimedia
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard WWW site (Europe)
- Personal computer systems
- Software
- AVR Corporation — Solutions in Experiential Computing.
- Linux (See my Linux page as well.)
- Lotus SmartSuite (OS/2, Windows 95, and Windows 3.1)
- OpenDoc
- Apple’s OpenDoc page
- Another Apple OpenDoc page
- CILabs home page
- Club OpenDoc (IBM).
- Mike Pinkerton’s OpenDoc Revolution evangelism page. He’s a student, so he must really believe!
- OS/2
- Information from IBM:
- IBM Kiosk for Education U.S. and their current promotions.
- OS/2 home page
- OS/2 Beta programme
- OS/2 device driver repository (This site is in Europe, but it is a gateway to a North American file server.)
- IBM’s Centre for Java Technology
- 15 Questions to ask Microsoft about Windows 95
- E-zines by user groups:
- Information presented by end-users:
- Toronto OS/2 User’s Group
- Marcus Better’s HFS/2 — an installable Hierarchical Filesystem for OS/2. You can read and write Mac diskettes from within OS/2.
- OS/2 World Wide Web homepage
- OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions — verseion 3
- Warp X – The Future With OS/2 Warp — unofficial, and maintained by Martin Alfredsson and Daniel McNulty. Kris Kwilas has stopped updating his “The Highly Unofficial OS/2 FAQ” in favour of the Warp X FAQ
- OS/2 email campaign page where your requests for OS/2 versions of software can be made.
- Information from IBM:
- SOMware at the Club — IBM’s SOM web page. SOM stands for System Object Model, which is, umm, something that makes umm, object-oriented-work nicer. And it’s being used by OpenDoc. SOM solves the “fragile base class” problem.
- SPG — graphics software (available in OS/2-native versions)
- Willows — they make a source-and binary- level compatibility library and environment for the Windows API. They are giving it away for free for non-commercial use! Of course, they also sell it for money to businesses.
- Windows95 Help Site If you’re running Windows95, God knows you need help. This is run by volunteers.
- Corporate main pages and main computer products pages.
