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-a ) check out Leo Marks' "Between Silk and Cyanide", which touches on a telegrapher's signature 'fist' - they were distinguishing between different (German) senders of coded messages over the air.

-b) this is still relevant today for (especially amateur radio) morse code operators

There was an Apple Mac (sub-) team visit to Inmos in the UK, hosted by Ian Barron, sometime circa 1982 - 1983. Bob Belleville, the Mac team's director of engineering, led the trip. I remember Ian had a Jaguar with twin fuel tanks, but told the story of how he forgot to refill the first one when it was empty, so sometime he totally ran out of fuel. JG (John Giannandrea), later of Netscape, was at Inmos around then. (He was at Apple last time I checked.)

Eric Schmidt was, as I recall (which was when I was there), at PARC proper, doing his PhD thesis research and writing his thesis. But as Larry Tesler's interaction showed, there were fluid interactions between at least some people at PARC and the XBS and Xerox Star teams.

So - it depends a bit on your purpose - if you just need a linux box, with no particular performance constraing, a Raspberry Pi might do. For a bit more performance, ODroid is nice - see http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php. ~$200 at the high end. You can of course add some storage via USB. For a serious server machine - the above recommendations may be plausible.