« on: December 01, 2011, 08:00:00 PM »
They'd rather dump it in the bin than give it away.
When people spend a lot of money on something and later if that thing becomes useless, barely useful or not attracting much attention anymore, they either choose to not share it with anyone interested or they choose to destroy it if they no longer care.
It's a combination of two human traits that makes them act. The second strongest of these is called "hoarding" and the first one "revenge". they are hard coded to our genes from prehistoric times.
Tragically true. There's a guy a couple hours from where I live that had a massive Amiga hoard he wanted to get rid of - but he didn't want to split any of it. I managed to cajole him into selling me one bare-bones A2000 system, but he wouldn't even sell an accelerator for what I could afford, and told me that it was going to the dump if he didn't sell it. It was literally worth nothing to him, and he still wouldn't let anyone else have it
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Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer
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