This reminds me of the dial-in server I built in our student home back in '97-'98. It was a 386sx 16Mhz with 2MB of memory and a 40MB hard drive that you had to preheat in the oven or it wouldn't spin up. That was realistically the lowest spec'd hardware you could actually get to run linux on.<p>It took half an hour to boot, but that was okay since it was always on anyway. It took about 5 minutes to set up a ppp connection using a dial-in modem, and then the whole house had internet access through its network adapter. Unless someone had tripped over the coax cables again of course..