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In 1953 I left high school, did my apprenticeship at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and joined my dad as a radio tradesman with his electrical business, which he’d opened in 1930. Despite the job title, we didn't do much radio work in those days – it was really about fixing TVs. Black-and-white televisions gave us an enormous amount of work at the time: we put up aerials for everybody and fixed TVs constantly. That was my entire job in the early days, although we could fix everything we sold, too, whether it was an iron, toaster or any sort of electrical appliance. If someone brought it in to be fixed, we fixed it.
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