To follow on from Shred's insights: Apple dealers in the UK had little opportunity to sell spare parts. About 1994, we suffered a burglary because RAM was expensive at the time and the thieves removed every SIMM like thing from our computers. They even unknowingly stole the ROM from a 6100. Apple UK made it difficult, but not impossible, to buy a replacement.
Incidentally and for humour value:
1. The thieves had been followed by the police for 100+ miles before the event, but the police got lost in traffic. The police then staked out the wrong building, 300 yards away.
2. The thieves entered a building which is used for animal experimentation (ie high security), stole RAM from various computers, exiting via a room containing thirty brand new Mac 6100s sitting in their boxes.
3. Total insurance loss: £250,000 (they stole memory from a mini computer that had to be put down). Potential benefit to thieves: £5,000, assuming that they worked out that the Unix workstation RAM was valuable.
Incidentally and for humour value:
1. The thieves had been followed by the police for 100+ miles before the event, but the police got lost in traffic. The police then staked out the wrong building, 300 yards away.
2. The thieves entered a building which is used for animal experimentation (ie high security), stole RAM from various computers, exiting via a room containing thirty brand new Mac 6100s sitting in their boxes.
3. Total insurance loss: £250,000 (they stole memory from a mini computer that had to be put down). Potential benefit to thieves: £5,000, assuming that they worked out that the Unix workstation RAM was valuable.