In the early 90's, my Bride considered the pile of computers around my desk. "Why not just get one big one?" Fast forward a couple weeks where I was shopping at the Lockheed outlet store - and found a Sun 3/280s and 19" wide, 8' tall rack for $25. She was not amused to have a 'big one' the size of a fridge in our tiny apartment.

That old server has gone through many, many incarnations of hardware.