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kleinbl00  ·  1704 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Now that we're all working from home...what does your setup look like?

For the longest time my "desk" was actually an ex-Boeing workbench. It was made out of 3/4" and 1.5" MDF, covered in ESD melamine, with a 1/2" copper ground bar running across the top in front of the plug strip, which was attached to a hospital plug. There was also a 220 outlet.

I bought it out of Boeing Surplus for $50 and got it home. I opened the drawer and found a manual marked "sensitive" describing procedures for testing the detonation circuits of the SRAM-II nuclear air to surface missile.

I still have that manual somewhere. Looking back on it I'm undecided if someone was just not paying attention or if someone wanted to give a schmuck like me a thrill.