We should try and preserve old machines, not just audio relics like synths, samplers, tape recorders etc but all machines, they are precious because they tell us as much about the times in which they were designed as any archaeological artifact could - these ideas structure our value system and thus our social system. It will never be economically viable to make many of them to the same standards again, audio equipment is such a good example of the predominate thinking of the time and whilst their value is appreciated there will always be people interested in them. We need more people around who know how to fix things like this too, the whole social economic family of people whose livelihood depends on maintaining this technological tributary of incidence, recycling, renewablable cultural economy, a kind of electronic wizardry, volt alchemists of mystery.