DADC's Michael Mitchell.(compact disc industry)(Brief Article)

Tape-Disc Business, January, 2001 by Daley, Dan

Michael Mitchell came to the beginnings of optical disc manufacturing in North America in 1984, the first native English-speaking engineer and the twelfth person hired for the joint Sony/CBS venture which would eventually become DADC in Terre Haute, IN. Then it seemed as though the CD format was a brave new world. Outside of the one plant Sony operated in Shizouka, Japan -- which also served as the world's sole training location for CD technology -- the manufacturing of the format was conceptual rather than real.

"In retrospect, it was pretty visionary for the time," recalls Mitchell, 41, a native of Chicago for whom this was only his second job after graduating from Northern Illinois University with a B.S.E.E. degree. "It was a new product with nothing but...

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