Depends on how you define "practical" and "home computer". My home network includes a SPARCstation-20, which is my main head (I'm typing this message using it to handle keyboard and screen). I don't think there's any question that the SS20 is on-topic, but is it a "home computer"? I think of it and treat it that way, but it was never aimed at that market by its maker and it differs in some drastic and fundamental ways from most machines that were. As for practical, well, it's the HCI in front of almost everything I do at home, including work-from-home stuff.... And I have another SS20 with a qec in it, which I recently used to regain some semblance of connectivity when my house DSL decided to die on me (it took multiple days for it to get fixed, for a variety of reasons). It sat on my house network with one of the qe ports connected to a friend who had mass-market connectivity; I set up an instance of my cloud VPN on it and it did its job well, passing packets between my house network and my machines on the outside. That certainly counts as practical to me. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B