I Nearly Died After Flying Thousands Of Miles To Install A Power Cord For The NSA
The Register, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
This job was a car wreck in more than one way
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Kent" who told us about a job he held in the 1980s, when he worked for a manufacturer of some of the first digital waveform recorders and logic analyzers - vintage kit for diagnosing problems in electronic devices.
"I was hired as a repair tech and eventually ended up running the department," Kent told On Call.
That lofty position meant that when a very important client - the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) - reported a logic analyzer was producing junk data, Kent got the job of sorting it out.