This period was a nightmare for technical persons building computers. At that point in time I was building computers with a frequency of about 6 to 12 per day. The operating systems were put in afterwards.
Imagine the following nightmare scenario; at the certain point in time within the period of guarantee client calls with the message that the computer just stops working. The client has done everything that's needed to protect it; UPS, grounded outlets, ground resistance between .5 ohms and 1.2 ohms
Good UPS APC were good ones at that point in time.
Computers come in and after a while it's easy to see what happened because all the Elco's were dead, all of them!