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You sneer too hard, your face will stick that way. I don't advise it.
Thirty year old tech isn't up to snuff with today's microcontroller controlled devices. What might LOOK like a new piece of junk on the outside can have some pretty elegant firmware going on inside. Because programmers often share their knowledge and what might have been learned 30 years ago about making the best charger gets spread around to engineers like wildfire. And eventually it trickles down to todays tech. And firmware is cheap so not opposed by marketing types.
Now, how it gets instituted by today's engineers and whether or not they use quality components is a whole 'nuther question.
Thirty year old tech isn't up to snuff with today's microcontroller controlled devices. What might LOOK like a new piece of junk on the outside can have some pretty elegant firmware going on inside. Because programmers often share their knowledge and what might have been learned 30 years ago about making the best charger gets spread around to engineers like wildfire. And eventually it trickles down to todays tech. And firmware is cheap so not opposed by marketing types.
Now, how it gets instituted by today's engineers and whether or not they use quality components is a whole 'nuther question.
