Interesting observation on the random direction, I'd always wondered why that was. The other thing to remember is that in the 1990s a microwave oven cost sever

Interesting observation on the random direction, I'd always wondered why that was. The other thing to remember is that in the 1990s a microwave oven cost several hundred dollars at least. Now you can pick one up for fifty bucks, possibly forty. Losing extraneous features like "boomerang turntable" is presumably part of how the manufacturers managed to respond to the downwards price pressure.