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young boy, Omar loved toy trains, but with money tight, his family could only afford to buy used ones, many of them broken. So, Omar learned how to repair them, and when his father's import business was struggling due to the war overseas, 13-year-old Omar shifted his attention to repairing radios to help make ends meet. This fascination with radios enabled him to run a business out of his family's home. Omar's entrepreneurial skills helped him as he built one of the largest radio repair shops in
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Philadelphia. These were radios
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that people were enjoying for the same reasons for the most part that people enjoy your podcast or music today. And so, I think that's an obvious path. Electronics, tubes, and speakers, that's a radio. Bozas' talents and radio repair even led him to construct an early version of a television set years before they were ever available to consumers. By the time it came to looking for colleges, his skill and enthusiasm and excitement about electronics had gained some attention. His family couldn't afford to send him to MIT, and his grades weren't of a nature that you might get in under just simply because of your academic record. But there were enough people that had observed his brilliance and his energy that I think some recommendations were made that got him into MIT but did not get him
