VendorDA is a handy tool for people whose job is adminstrating or supporting other Macintosh users. It lists over 340 vendors of products for Macintosh, and includes manufacturers (O.E.M.'s), publishers, suppliers, and developers. It is certainly not the be-all and end-all of telephone lists, but rather hits the high spots, and lists most mainstream vendors (i.e., you won't find many little guys in it) -- this is because Display DA, which was used to create this desk accessory only supports 32K of data.
The list is a compilation of data from MANY sources, including my own personal Rolodex, which has built up over the last three years into a cumbersome Hypercard stack, and is basically too much trouble to maintain. VendorDA is much handier, and quicker to call up when I need a number fast.
This latest version has been "cleaned up" to remove some irrelevant data that snuck in from my personal Rolodex, or to remove non-Macintosh related vendors (there may still be some GUI residue, though 8). About 20-30 listings have been expunged, and 40-50 added, to include some BBS numbers (that I felt would be useful), publishers (MacWeek/User/World, Byte, et al), and hard disk OEM's, which may be of questionable usefulness....
Hope you find it as useful as I do, and thanks to Bill Steinberg for creating Display DA. Cheers! <B>
If you feel a need to offer monetary compensation for the many hours of work that went into compiling, editing, and updating VendorDA, send a $10 contribution to one of the following non-profit organizations:
National Wildlife Federation American Red Cross Planned Parenthood
