strange remark about your collection?

28 Sep 2012

...
   It finally
occurred to me that [a microwvae after a lightning storm]
 can beep when it's not supposed to, it can turn on the microwaves
 when it's not supposed to.  Every microwave oven I've seen over here has a
quite complex
 interlock on the door that it independant of the microcontroller
 syustem.  No matter what the latter does, the magnetron cannot be
 powered up. 
So did this one.  But we were often, perhaps even usually, leaving the
door closed when it was not in use, and was unwilling to count on our
breaking that habit as the only defense against the potential bad
consequences.  (Or would have been, I believe; it was long enough ago I
don't specifically recall, but I suspect I didn't reason it out in that
much detail, rather than just "eep, it could turn on the magnetron,
better open it up and see if I can eliminate the processor".)

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strange remark about your collection?