Crumar Musical Instruments User Group.

Hi!
With reference to Jeremy's request for Crumar Trilogy information:
I support your feelings about the lack of info on what would appear to be a
reasonably popular item.  It would seem to me that all manufacturers could,
with VERY little effort, transfer all the operating and service manuals from
all their current and legacy offerings to .pdf format, and make them easily
accessible on their websites, but very few actually do.
Perhaps a couple of manufacturers and/or distributors could offer their
thoughts on this issue in this forum.  I realize that their primary goal is
to convince clients to ditch their old stuff and buy new, but for many
people (if not most), the route to the new is through used older equipment,
be it musical, mechanical, electronic or any combination of those elements.
Clients, I believe, would be far more inclined to stay with a particular
brand or vendor if that vendor provided complete and accessible operating
and service information on the web.
Case in point:  I've got a Korg I5S, which I thoroughly enjoy (and play very
poorly), but I can find no reference whatever to it on the Korg website.
Seems to me that, for an instrument which is only about 7 or 8 years old,  I
should be able to easily locate all the manuals, the schematic, a source for
the additional software which I don't have but which was provided on floppys
when the machine was new.  I would be much more motivated to stay with Korg
if all that were routinely available when I upgrade.
What do others think about this issue?
Geoff
Vancouver, BC