-> I can shut the power off to my W31 system and turn it back on
-> with no damage to the setup/OS. I don't know which of the many
-> tweaks I did to it made this possible but it's come in handy at
-> times. 

I can do the same thing.
Knoppix shut down due to power loss scrambles the time in CMOS
leading to a error message on boot.
I'm off 12 hours now AAMOF but that';s better than the 1990 it showed
before.

-> WC> Playstation 3 has already been hacked for IRC and other
-> WC> uses. Earlier Playstations had custom Linux written for
-> WC> them. 

-> It would have to have one-button pirating of MP3s and videos
-> plus storage for pr0n to be really attractive to newbies. 

-> WC> Then there's WebTV for the techno-impaired. 

-> I've never actually seen or used a WebTV system but an old
-> friend's mother has one and used to email me using it. She
-> likes it? 

Never seen one either.

-> WC> I need to search on "World's smallest server" again as the
-> WC> last time I looked it was matchbox size and truely easy to
-> WC> build on the cheap. Parts and instructions were on site as
-> WC> well as part suppliers. 

-> There are some URLs for those (there are several) at SlashDot. 

I googled it and it's an iPic based micro.
Two quarters dwarf it and the iPic processor itself on wire leads
is the size of a wooden kitchen match head.
Needs a couple small support components and a router though.
No link to the code so duplicating it would be problematic
as the builder wrote it himself.

-> The least expensive would be the ones linked to at my website
-> that execute on an 8088. :-) 
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