I don't think it's special at all. I work with these things in my cloud research and thought it'd be cute to play around with one at home. Partly because of t

I don't think it's special at all. I work with these things in my cloud research and thought it'd be cute to play around with one at home. Partly because of the challenge at getting an old clunker back into a working state. And partly because I like dogfooding and really knowing what it takes to run an entire stack---including the hardware underneath me. Those are my real reasons. This was for fun :-)