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Default Microwave oven rant. Rice.

jmcquown wrote:
> Kate Connally wrote:
>> Gini wrote:
>>
>>> "Kate Connally" wrote
>>>
>>>> Doctroid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Adam Funk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> The microwave my parents had when I was a kid had something like a
>>>>>> numeric keypad on it,
>>>>>
>>>>> When *I* was a kid, the only microwave ovens around were the radar
>>>>> dishes my Dad worked on at GE. Uphill. Both ways.
>>>>
>>> ==
>>> I thought the beeper could be turned off on all of them--as it is on
>>> my very cheap, BOTL Kenmore.

>>
>> Huh????? Where did that come from? What beeper?
>>
>> Kate

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> CROSSPOSTING DELETED
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> The OP is complaining about when you press each number on the keypad it goes
> "beep". Mine does, but I don't get all worked up about it


So does mine, and I consider it a feature. It's a confidence beep, so I
don't have to keep moving my visual attention from the keypad to the
display and back for every stroke to make sure it was registered.


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