Switches and splitters create dual access.
A detailed brochure introduces a line of splitters and improved switches to help you consolidate PCs and prevent excess computer clutter. Splitters allow multiple keyboards, monitors, and mice to control one computer, and switches control multiple PCs from one keyboard, monitor, and mouse. You can combine switches and splitters to create dual access to multiple servers or to provide local and common access to multiple computers. The guide highlights the features, applications, and technical specifications of the units. Network Technologies Inc, Aurora, OH.
Second edition surface-mount book.
A 250-pg book, Design Guidelines for Surface Mount and Fine Pitch Technology, contains new material on assembly methods and other features of fine-pitch and ball-grid-array devices. The book presents information on such topics as how to design for efficient automation, surface-mount-technology (SMT) layout for wave soldering, advanced pc-board materials, SMT component-density planning, and industry-preferred designs for manufacturing guidelines. The book costs $52. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Magnetic circuit breakers.
The UL489 C-Series guide of magnetic circuit breakers covers products that let you specify smaller circuit breakers to protect systems requiring high interruptive capacity and current ratings as high as 100A. The C-Series also features interrupt capacity as high as 10,000A and voltage ratings as high as 125V dc and 240V ac. You can use the devices in applications such as telecommunications, transformers, computers, motors, and mPs. The C-Series catalog includes general specifications, time-delay curves, circuit-and-terminal and form-and-fit diagrams, and color photographs. Carlingswitch Inc, Plainville, CT.
Three books explain Java, the Power Mac, and Windows 95.
Java Programming Explorer is a 700-pg, step-by-step guide to learning Java that includes how to create Java applications, build a Java program from scratch, access databases, and use security methods. The second edition of The Power Mac Book! features topics such as the inner workings of Power Macs (System 7.5), how to get native Internet software for the Power Mac, and Power Mac clones. Windows Programming with Custom Controls helps you learn to move from the 16- to 32-bit control format, gives you in-depth instructions for creating object-linking-and-embedding controls (OCXs), and teaches you important Windows concepts. A companion CD-ROM includes custom-control-development software, OCX controls, combination OCX/VBX controls, C++ source code, and templates. The books cost $39.99 each and include CD-ROMs. The Coriolis Group, Scottsdale, AZ.
Design handbook and product guide available.
This design handbook covers adhesives, sealants, and coating and dispensing technologies. The 464-pg book provides design information, including detailed engineering data, adhesive-engineering principles, plastics-compatibility tables, fluid/gas-resistance charts, color illustrations, and definitions. The industrial product guide offers information and specifications on a line of off-the-shelf adhesives and sealants, including threadlocking, threadsealing, gasketing/flange sealing, retaining, bonding, and sealing-porosity products. The handbook is available in nine languages and costs $25, plus shipping. The product guide is free. Loctite Corp, Rocky Hill, CT.
Catalog features switches, knobs, and LEDs.
This catalog is a reference for the vendor's line of switches, knobs, and LEDs. It lists products such as low-voltage-array rotary and rotary BCD switches; collet knobs; right-angle, single- and double-height LED arrays; bicolor LED arrays; and right-angle switch and test sockets. The guide includes >100 pg of dimensional drawings, specification tables, and descriptions. Elma Electronics, Fremont, CA.