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I absolutely love this kind and era of electrical technology. It’s so clever and creative. There’s complexity but none of it is complicated. Any reasonable person can understand what’s going on. Microchips, to me at least, are black boxes. I can’t open one, understand it, fix a few things, make a few changes, then boot it back up.


At the same time, I find it amazing how much complication they were able to create from solenoids, switches, and a motor.


You could if you had the source code. Or if you wanted to dump it off the chip and reverse engineer it.




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