Be lucky you don't know why someone made a crappy ohmmeter in 1989.
Did a quick search in the forum, either nobody caught it, or was too lazy to write it down - that thing was made in an accordion factory.
Why? Well, short answer is the Russians. Until 1990 East Germany, and my home country, Hungary were under russian administration - one thing about that was the so called "five-year plans" - basically, high-ranking officials "predicted" what people would want in the next five years, and how much of those things should be produced. We know today that the best computer in the world would not calculate that until the heat-death of the solar system, but hey, down a few vodkas and you make
- bus manufacturers manufacture 5000 prams per year (yeah, imagine a 15lb plaything next to the 20ton busses on the assembly line)
- agricultural collectives manufacture PC power supplies (hey, there was a draught that wasn't in the 5-year-plan, now how do you make money?)
- in Hungary, the Telephone Manufacturing Company made... wait for it... reel-to-reel decks (they do make a sound, afterall)
- accordion factories produce ohmmeters (I don't even...)
Funny thing, that cold war was.