>
> >
> > That's bloody criminal.  Note they have two 7404s in parallel.
>
>Naw, it's called 'letrical injunearing.  Their circuit will work fine in
>probably >90% of the applications.  I'm sure that HEX inverter costs
>allot less than a MAX232, plus it doesn't need four expensive
>electrolytic caps.  It probably saves more than a US$1.00 per unit.
>Although I do wonder why they didn't use the other three inverters,
>maybe they're spares for when you kill the first three.  ;-)

Worse, when you come in as the engineer, and say it shouldn't be done like
this, you get the 'it's working, what's wrong with it' reply.

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