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As a person operating decades old equipment I see trade offs here. Old machines are reliable and cheap to operate, but they are also NOISY, steering require quite some muscle strength and cabin without ac and filters is not pleasant and most importantly good for your health.

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>steering require quite some muscle strength and cabin without ac and filters is not pleasant and most importantly good for your health.

Yeah, AC and filters don't require a computer. Neither does power steering, to my knowledge.

Once you want to add AC you need to add more support systems making whole machine more complex and more expensive to operate.

There are actually tractors like that, but those brands are failing unable to compete with high tech tractors like JD or New Holland on one side and with simple old tractors on another.

That it's possible doesn't meant they built them. Maybe the units that came with AC also started coming with DRM.

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