Thirty years ago at least I was trying to buy a Macintosh SE30 ROM chip, and you would have thought I was trying to steal the Crown Jewels I was treated with such suspicion by the Apple dealers, who had all been clearly instructed by The Management never to sell spares to
anyone. Eventually I found some Indian repair guy in Wembley who sold me one for ?30, but it took weeks of phone calls from the back pages of PC mags to find someone willing. I guess they had good reason to be suspicious, as I was using an Amiga 2000, and some bright spark had released a Mac emulator on an expansion card - but you had to find a Mac ROM chip to rip so you could flash the rogue one on the board. But I essentially then had an Amiga and Mac in the same box, and could transfer files between them - this is like, 1992. With Syquest removeable drives. Clunk-click, every trip.
But I digress - my first jab is next Monday