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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by nine_k on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:49PM (#21976957)
It has to have a computer, the way your ICE car has a computer, or maybe the way your washing machine or a microwave has a computer (they all do).

It should serve the driver, and be low-profile and unobtrusive.

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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by IggleSniggle on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:20AM (#21977774)
Does my washer really have a computer? Electric control board, certainly, but the timers are all mechanical. What is there to compute?
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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by sfifs on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:59AM (#21977980)
It's a hell of a lot cheaper to throw in a micro-controller than use mechanical timers etc. At bulk, an MCU based control board should cost you single digit dollars.
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