I went through this in the early 2000s when I was a) exposed to rack stuff in CCNA class in high school/votech and b) dot-com surplus started showing up really

I went through this in the early 2000s when I was a) exposed to rack stuff in CCNA class in high school/votech and b) dot-com surplus started showing up really cheap on eBay. Nowadays my desktops are either SFF or mid-tower CAD workstations. We've got some control computers racked with test equipment/tools but they're not really general purpose workstations.