"blofelds_cat" wrote in message
news:9Sg8l.7785$cu.6794@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
I remember, some decades ago, buying one of the first
'electronic'
toasters (they all are now, I suspect),
> >>>>>> No, they're not. Not unless you count a potentiometer as
'electronics',
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> What's the potentiometer connected to?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> The control for the degree of browning is just a pot.
> >>>>
> >>> Your ignorance of electronics is REALLY showing now.
> >>>
> >> You presume too much. In my eagerness to contribute, I simply didn't
> >> think it thru.
> >
> > Exactly, you were wrong and my observation was correct.
> >
> >> The pot is of course a part of the timer circuit,
> >> offering variable resistance.
> >
> > Which of course is ONLY in an electronic toaster, the point we were
making,
> > and you were disputing.
>
> Nope, smartarse. I never disputed anything about electronic toasters. I
> only made the point that manual ones are still available.
So you didn't write what you have even included above? Funny it's still on
Usenet then.
Yes mechanical ones are still available, pity that's not what you wrote
though.
MrT.
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