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Posted by ToolkiT on 05-12-2002 01:13 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by BobbyMike
"Mmmm interesting... care to tell more about that?"

About seven years ago we bought 135+ acres withn old house and a barn (along with various other outbuildings). The barn was completely full of cr*p. That cr*p turned out to contain the entire stock of a defunct millinery (hat making) supply company. It had been stored in the barn for approx. 50 years. After we removed a lot of junk we uncovered boxes and boxes of pristine hat trimmings, most of them feather ornaments. The factories that made these no longer exist, or are no longer making them, so they are sought after.
We sell directly to most of the best custom hatmakers in the US and UK (Philip Treacy who does Chanels' hats (and his own) bought a huge lot from us). You can see our stuff at our website(which admittedly is in dire need of updating and revising) at Vintage Feathers . We currently come up as the number one site on Google searches for "vintage feathers".

Wow, what a great story!
Give my love to liz

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Posted by BobbyMike on 05-12-2002 10:33 PM:

"Wow, what a great story! Give my love to liz "

smooch smooch

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Posted by BudPritchard on 05-13-2002 07:04 PM:

Re: Re: Looks like I'm the oldest -- oh woe!

quote:
Originally posted by Yorick

Retirement?

Not me. I plan to die at the keyboard.

Posted by ErnstB on 05-13-2002 08:32 PM:

I just considered a contest I might win, what about the member with the most computers, or the most diskspace, at his desk ?
My latest count: 10 computers, a Palm, a Treo, an HP360LX, a Lego RCX and 410 GB storage space. btw: I didn't count linear storage, only random access.

Posted by Toby on 05-13-2002 08:51 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ErnstB
I just considered a contest I might win, what about the member with the most computers, or the most diskspace, at his desk ?
My latest count: 10 computers, a Palm, a Treo, an HP360LX, a Lego RCX and 410 GB storage space. btw: I didn't count linear storage, only random access.

Are those actually _at_ your desk, or merely controllable from your desk? Personally, I like to keep all my servers in another less accessible room and just visit them in person when circumstances require.

Posted by ErnstB on 05-13-2002 10:28 PM:

at home: next to my desk: one server with 270 GB ( 230 HD and 40 GB optical), on my desk the rest, on a modular computer desk that has four shelfs with equipment, all controlled through two cascaded KVM switches with two 19" monitors, one keyboard and one mouse. If forgot to mention that there are two hubs, a switch and a cisco router to connect the equipment together. One KVM switch together with the router and a hub and three machines is a complete network separated from the rest (all together on the top shelf) as a test environment.

btw: I know it is a bit much, but I thought it might be something to keep this thread alive

Posted by Toby on 05-13-2002 10:55 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ErnstB
at home: next to my desk: one server with 270 GB ( 230 HD and 40 GB optical), on my desk the rest, on a modular computer desk that has four shelfs with equipment, all controlled through two cascaded KVM switches with two 19" monitors, one keyboard and one mouse. If forgot to mention that there are two hubs, a switch and a cisco router to connect the equipment together. One KVM switch together with the router and a hub and three machines is a complete network separated from the rest (all together on the top shelf) as a test environment.

btw: I know it is a bit much, but I thought it might be something to keep this thread alive

Well, I could beat that at work were it not for the fact that my racks are in four separate locations and they're only virtually at my desk. I don't have much at home (only 4 systems with ~250GB of disc).

Posted by BobbyMike on 05-13-2002 11:37 PM:

I have 40 chickens

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Posted by ToolkiT on 05-14-2002 01:20 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by BobbyMike
I have 40 chickens

I have 1 budgie!

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Posted by Thunderbird291 on 05-14-2002 02:05 AM:

I've got a USB hub. Bam!

Posted by dick-richardson on 05-14-2002 03:45 AM:

I might win a 'slowest P.O.S. still in active duty' contest (A 200MHz P1 and maxed at 192MB's RAM). Maybe a 'youngest father' contest (19). A shot at a 'most pda's gone through' contest (although the handera is raising my average - nevermind, I couldn't begin to count).

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Posted by ErnstB on 05-14-2002 05:48 AM:

The smallest PC-like machine is a 80186 with 512KB RAM and 512KB Flash disk see IPC12 at www.bcl.de and I won't start counting what I have at the office because I don't think many have a chance to beat me there

Posted by bookrats on 05-14-2002 04:22 PM:

Re: Re: Re: Looks like I'm the oldest -- oh woe!

quote:
Originally posted by BudPritchard

Not me. I plan to die at the keyboard.

Me too. I think it will look great on my (final) P.A.

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Posted by bookrats on 05-14-2002 04:25 PM:

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
I might win a 'slowest P.O.S. still in active duty' contest (A 200MHz P1 and maxed at 192MB's RAM).

I might win that if I can count PCs in my house that I maintain.

My partner Heidi dislikes all of the 32-bit versions of Windows, so I keep her 90 Mhz 486 running Windows for Workgroups going. (However, when it dies, I think she'll have to bite the bullet and at least use NT 4.)

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Posted by xstitcher on 05-14-2002 06:44 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by bookrats

. . .I keep her 90 Mhz 486 running Windows for Workgroups going.

A couple of weeks ago I had to relinquish the title of having the oldest working computer in the company when I retired a 40Mhz 386 running Win 3.1 - ran an old testing program that was finally replaced!

Posted by ErnstB on 05-14-2002 06:49 PM:

I still got a 486/20Mhz in service running Windows NT4 with 32MB RAM and a 1GB Harddisk. One of the reasons for keeping this machine for so long is that it is pizza box, with lan and vga on board. Has served very well as a DHCP server.

Posted by ErnstB on 05-14-2002 06:57 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT

I have 1 budgie!

The hamster died &#134

Posted by ToolkiT on 05-16-2002 04:25 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by ErnstB

The hamster died &#134

Sad to hear that...

Our Budgie looks a bit lonely so for my birthday I'll probably get another budgie....

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