old electronics wow. check it out
http://www.stevenjohnson.com/myworkbench.htm

 

I've got a few tons of that, myself, but nothing like he's got. I never had the money. In my working days I didn't have time or money. Now I don't have the energy, the time, or the money.

Below is a quick shot of "some of my junk" This is some of the "better" stuff

Top photo is the 853A series analyzer

Middle photo,
The analyzer on the left is a very old and beat up 141T series, with tracking generator on top. The one at bottom center is the 853A, with an old HP signal generator on top, the tracking gen for the 853 on top of that, and a very nice frequency counter at very top. And on top of THAT is a couple of more RF modules for the 853 analyzer

To the far left of the photo are the covered fronts of an old IFR 1000S RF monitor, and below that, an old CT Systems 3000 series. Even THAT old girl has a very poor spectral display in it.

The bottom photo is some more of my beat up pile of outdated but still somewhat useful test gear

Top left, an old Tektronix scope, sitting on top of a still very useful Motorola RF service monitor. Even this old girl has a rudimentary spectrum analyzer good to 1 ghz.

To the right are various sweep generators, and out of the photo is yet another obsolete HP o'scope frame which as a TDR (time domain reflectometer) installed, with what are called "amplitude swept analyzer" modules." These are the fore-runners to todays modern network analyzers.