Hawkmoon remarked,
"I guess the answer to your question, 'Why?' is
'Because.' I don't need the stove -- I have a perfectly functional 2-burner Coleman camp stove. It just bugs me to see a perfectly good mechanical device sidelined (or discarded) over something like not being able to buy the proprietary fuel any more."
I can get behind that... Besides legacy digital stuff, which I'm sure many can comment on, I used to collect cameras and it was always frustrating to have to dig up proprietary film cartridges and sheet film packs. One particularly annoying one was the "prize," a "35mm Camera," in a contest.
It was an Agfa camera and used special 35mm cartridges which had to be specially processed at their labs because there was a special method of opening them.
I imagine the same difficulty with auto parts, especially antique ones.
And in many other areas... I'm sure the list goes on.
Terry, 230RN