For everyone else:
The most common place you can find these today is power units for rack servers. Though I expect we’ll see more and more with COVID from theatre (ticket and popcorn) equipment.
Chris may ultimately need to create a gold plated fin class. ;) This style was extremely popular in the late 80s with cross-over equipment that was too small to be classed as a minicomputer but had all the parts of them. They disappeared until the early 00s outside of hot swap power supplies. With the digital theatre boom these became popular again...principally due to teenage stupidity Theatres use different equipment for different Digitalfilms. The fin design was the least likely to fail when 15yo susie or Jonny was rushed to swap server cards for different films. The RealiScape racks have gigantic fin connectors. And most of the host theatres for these systems are now either dead or in bankruptcy proceedings. People worry about theatre chains like Regal and AMC. The most advanced art house theatres are the ones dying. The equipment from them now making it into the scrap community
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