wow! I ran it through Babelfish just for fun....get this: Description: Small Orchidee with thick-fleshy sheets. On an up-increasing Rhizom Trichoceros trains antennifera the new Bulbe. The roots are amazingly thick fleshy. At the Bulb finished placed Trichoceros forms antennifera the bloom impulse, which carries or few blooms. Trichoceros antennifera grows in nature both semi - terrestrial, epiphytisch and litophytisch. Altogether in all plant parts more largely than Trichoceros muralis. A characteristic of all Trichoceros - kinds it is that the bloom acts like a female insect. The male insect is misled in such a way that it places dusting with the Begattungsversuch reliably. Culture: Due to the altitude and the climbing stature one cultivates Trichoceros antennifera better at a piece of crust, preferably robinie or pappel, without substrate edition. The temperature should not be more highly than kept at a moderate temperature. Temperature points in the summer are well stood, if Trichoceros stands antennifera thereby for drying. But in the summer in the evening and in the morning intensively waessern, in order to achieve as high a temperature difference between day and night as possible. One fertilizes weakly however continuously with a commercial Orchideenduenger. I'm sure you did it before, but it really is amazing that babelfish translates so poorly. Now you can see why those eBay descriptions are so wierd when they are posted by a non-English speaking person...

This is how Babelfish translated your email : "Very honoured sender, thanks for your email. I will work on this immediately, unfortunately cannot not exclude I if necessary delays. If you have thus questions or suggestions to SCHWEGLER products, turn please to the following address: info@Schwegler-Natur.de There you get competent advice bezgl. our Produktportfolio. Yours sincerely, Their Web master" I have found that it is not as "polished' a translation - but it does help you to figure out what is written. Hope this helps! Pat Here is a link that might be useful: Babelfish Translator

My husband was using them long before I was, way before windows, during the punch card era. I remember he was so proud when he got one of the very first "portable" computers the Osborne which was the size of a large suitcase with about a 6" screen, the screen was black with neon yellow text. Horrible thing. But man was he the hot ticket with his carry along pc LOL (he had 2 of them) I really do not remember the first one we had at home, before windows 3, but we did have an IBM with windows 3.1, that I recall. I think the first we got connected online was maybe around 1996 and definitely dial up through MSN. Before that we did use the juno email that would dial up on it's own with out an ISP connection. I was so thrilled when I found out our house near Dallas was in the test area for the first of the Verizon Fios fiber optic, I signed up to be a test house and was so happy to be flying along and not dealing with DSL any more. When we moved here I was devastated to leave my FIOS behind but luckily we have very very fast cable here so I have no complaints. I was lucky to have a good friend that is a linux programmer and coder, that took me under his wing and became my linux guru. He pushed me to install linux on one of my computers many years ago and man I am so glad he did. I do still have a few windows computers here but I dearly love using linux, not many worries about infection. I have my little netbook I can use in my recliner plus my Pandigital Novel tablet that I can carry around and use anywhere I want, especially laying in bed to read. A few desktops and my husbands laptop. I don't think I would know what to do with out a computer handy. for those that have never seen the Osborne portable computer which came out in I think the 80's here it is. "The machine was shipped as a full package including all the hardware and software a user could need including: 64K RAM, Z-80 CPU, 5" CRT, two floppy drives, keyboard, serial ports, CP/M operating system, WordStar, SuperCalc, and two versions of BASIC: CBASIC and MBASIC. The machine also had the ability to connect with scientific equipment via a built-in IEEE-488 interface, and could run an optional external monitor via the built-in port. Not only was the machine complete, it was cheap - $1795." It weighed 25 lbs. Osborne 1

Interesting, Netla, that you mention authors of a certain class. This was very true and not only of book writers. My grandparents were put off going to a Noel Coward musical show in the 1930s because they heard there were French words used which they wouldn't have understood. I read the script when I was studying drama in the 1950s and found there was only a small amount of French in the text but the rumour would have put off a lot of theatre goers. Such a pity! They were keen theatre patrons and would have enjoyed it.