Before he could even ride a two-wheeler, Richard Dillman was fascinated by radios. He rode around his Long Island neighborhood on a tricycle with a peach basket tied to the back, salvaging old AM-FM receivers and other gadgets from the trash. He’d bring them home, take them apart, and try to put them back together again.
“My parents asked me, ‘What’s up with the peach basket?’ I told them that my career goal was…