<div dir="auto">They didn’t, though. As was their right.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Among other things they probably and quite reasonably didn’t want to spend money until the end of time on answering questions about stuff that really wasn’t important anymore.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 01:17, Michael E Caloroso <<a href="mailto:mec.forumreader@gmail.com">mec.forumreader@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto">Why? Back in the 1990s, Yamaha destroyed their spare stock of custom<br>
ICs and their data sheets. They could had auctioned them off, could<br>
have digitally scanned the data sheets for perpetuity.<br>
<br>
But no, they DESTROYED them. Gone forever.<br></blockquote></div></div>