Indeed, I've got a Blackbird board in a micro-ATX tower as my main bedroom computer. Got it a couple years back to replace the bulky secondhand rackmounts I'd b

Indeed, I've got a Blackbird board in a micro-ATX tower as my main bedroom computer. Got it a couple years back to replace the bulky secondhand rackmounts I'd been using as build hosts/hypervisors/fileservers etc. I appreciate the open platform and documentation behind it -- the OpenPOWER people publish a lot of detailed technical docs, and all the source code is available, with everything down to the FPGAs controlling power-up easily modifiable, without having to reverse-engineer all the bits like cough other platforms. It's just a shame it started off expensive and has gotten even more so the past couple of years. I suppose it's just what happens when you're producing such complex boards at such a tiny scale, and for such a niche audience.