unfortunately most people are too worried about their own lives to worry about trying to help a community of people looking to rediscover music tech from the past
i can see very clearly the way someone posts on msg boards for instance, whether they care to contribute usefull information, or like rather to brag about themselves...
for me the whole pt of interacting here, is to try to spark discussion that leaves behind a trail of usefull info, it is about the reference information that gets left behind, not the actual discussion