Hardware Information Gathering

• Allpinouts - "information about hardware interfaces of modern and obsolete hardware, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different digital devices"
  http://www.allpinouts.org
• Hardware Book - collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions
  http://www.hardwarebook.info/
• Mediapedia (National Library of Australia)
  http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/3d-pearson.pdf