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Location: Sydney Australia
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"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".

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

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Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
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"Wow, what a great story! Give my love to liz "

smooch smooch

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Location: St Petersburg Fla
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Re: Re: Looks like I'm the oldest -- oh woe!

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Retirement?

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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Fuerth, Germany
Posts: 17

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.

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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.

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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Fuerth, Germany
Posts: 17

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

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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

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
Posts: 1049

I have 40 chickens

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Location: Sydney Australia
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I have 40 chickens

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I've got a USB hub. Bam!

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aberdeen, SD
Posts: 2531

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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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Fuerth, Germany
Posts: 17

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

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Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 501

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

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Not me. I plan to die at the keyboard.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
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I might win a 'slowest P.O.S. still in active duty' contest (A 200MHz P1 and maxed at 192MB's RAM).

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location: SoCal
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Originally posted by bookrats


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

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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Fuerth, Germany
Posts: 17

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.

Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Fuerth, Germany
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Originally posted by ToolkiT

I have 1 budgie!

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
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Originally posted by ErnstB


The hamster died &#134

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