Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center
One of my great joys as a teenager exploring electronics was the opportunity to clean out an old storage closet at some Fermilab facility with a friend. This was in the late 80s, we got several 1950s oscilloscopes and much other gear of similar era.<p>The room had been overlooked in the usual surplus process for years. My friend was related to someone working for the janitorial services company, and they'd been told to clean that room out and throw the stuff away. So what we got to do was help with that, and put anything we liked in my car instead of the dumpster.<p>We were stripping stuff there in the parking lot to save space. Crammed that car <i>full</i> of junk. It was a truly wonderful day.