Q: how to make home PC an internet node?

[Dave Cottingham]

It sure would be great if my PC at home were on the internet.  I'm
sure this must be possible, since there are plenty of smallish
businesses on the internet.  However, a perusal of the documents at
nic.ddn.mil shows only how to launch a new network, which requires
divine intervention from a government agency, and is definitely of a
grander scale than what I have in mind.

I'm hoping that someone out there who's done this can tell me how to
go about getting assigned an internet address, and what kind of
physical connection they use and to where, and just how massive a
financial outlay is required.  (Software is another issue, but I was
going to worry about that later.)

If this turns out to be impossible, I figure I'll settle for news and
mail via uucp.  I know one way to do this, which is to get in contact
with one of the sites on the NIXPUB list.  If anybody knows a better
way, I'd like to hear about it.

And finally, if there is a more appropriate place to post this,
please let me know.  (Intensive scrutiny of the list of active
newgorups turned up none which really seemed right,  but these
seemed slightly plausible.)

Please mail replies to me, if there's interest I'll summarize.  Somewhere.

Thanks,
Dave Cottingham
dc at max.berkeley.edu