When I was in school at the U of R, I lived with a woman who worked at the LLE. It was fascinating to hear her stories. She showed me a storage building there

When I was in school at the U of R, I lived with a woman who worked at the LLE. It was fascinating to hear her stories. She showed me a storage building there that had stacks and stacks of Unix workstations piled up collecting dust, because they had had classified info on them and so weren't allowed to be sold or thrown away even though they'd had all their storage removed. That was painful, all I wanted was one. Nobody would notice. She said no. :( But I did manage to get remote access to their Cray-2 by agreeing to do some free sysadmin work for them. U of R has some pretty sketchy nuclear past history though, as the hospital ran some tests in the 1940's of injecting some unwitting patients with plutonium, uranium, and polonium to see what would happen. There's an almost abandoned tunnel (actually, it may well be abandoned at this point) that goes underneath Elmwood Ave between the medical center annex and the hospital proper which has a very old, very locked door labelled "isotope storage chamber". Creepy.