Daniel Karagiannis, an Electronic Technologist at UTSC, looks back on the development of technological services on campus, commenting in particular on the growing reliance on computers in campus operations and the — perhaps consequential — reduction of the school’s service staff over time.
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[Daniel:] Well when I graduated from George Brown College, our instructor there happened to know someone here in Scarborough.
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And we were in touch with him, and he knew I was looking for work. And so he called me and said there’s an opening at Scarborough campus, you can go and apply. And I did that and I was hired at the time.
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[Scott:] Was there anything challenging at first? [Daniel:] Well, everything was new, of course. I actually had to learn what I’m doing right now because I had just graduated.
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First of all, we started with vacuum tubes when I was back in school,
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and then they moved on to transistors, ICs, microprocessors and now computers, of course. So it was gradual change over the years.
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There used to be a lot of people down here whereby we would design and build instruments for the professors, for the academics.
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And there used to be six electronics technicians, technologists, four or five machinists.
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There were two carpenters, two glass-blowers, a painter, full-time painter, and a welder as well.
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[Scott:] Wow. [Daniel:] So it was quite busy at the time.
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But gradually through attrition and I suppose cutbacks, it is what it is now.
