> aren't going to correspond to anything you can buy ...on the open market. However, if your repair shop exists just down the street from one of Apple's compo

> aren't going to correspond to anything you can buy ...on the open market. However, if your repair shop exists just down the street from one of Apple's component supplier's factories, then knowing the part number of one of the ICs or other actives, might be enough to let you walk in there one day and submit a hand-written PO for a few boxes of said part (...as a cash transaction, of course.)