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I worked in a shop in the early 90s with a bunch of Suns, and we had hired this new sysadmin. One day we noticed that half the RAM was missing from a workstation, and few minutes later noticed half the RAM was missing from all the workstations. Turned out the new sysadmin was a cokehead and had stolen it.

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Oh man that's funny. Only because something similar happened to us. Hired new cleaners circa 2001. Got into the office one morning and all the PC cases were open. All the RAM and CPUs had been stolen.

In the mid-90s, when CPU heatsinks didn't need to be screwed in, thieves discovered that the new ZIF/zero-insertion-force sockets also make good zero-removal-force sockets.

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