by Tony Walter Mele
(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
I remember working at Olive Electrodynamics as a bench technician in the summer of 1972, having graduated from RCC Institute of Technology at the young age of 17, while attending senior HS. My job was to test the sub-modules that fitted on the main mother board. I remember seeing Wayne Jones and the other very brilliant engineers talking, of course, of their passion for the Series 2000 studio console. It was a very interesting time for me to see how the assembly lines worked along with the design engineers who helped push their product. The machine shop bent and punched the metal from scratch. It was a great time in Montreal. By the way, my salary was $2.25/hour. I never complained because I was being paid to participate in a new breakthrough technological event.