By "one of the guys who was 'present at the creation,'" I'll assume you mean Charlie Anderson, not me.
Quad was introduced a year and four months after I was born.
My early reading (pre-10 yrs) was Perry Mason paperbacks and technical books from the library. At that time Quad was the only game in tape... and I knew how it worked in a block-diagram sense. (Math dislexia? derailed my path toward engineering
My first videotape handling was in high school... the Ampex industrial 1" format that was an ancestor of Type C.
My path took me to shooting 16mm film, then shooting and editing 3/4"... now digital with Final Cut Pro.
I have a collection of Type C machines and linear edit controllers that are the guts of the edit suite I could only drool over when you'd have to pay half a million dollars to get into the game.
With the website, I'm more of a historian and knowledge archivist, hoping to keep the ability to recover content available for future generations to use.
And who knows... I may run across a working AVR-2 I can add to the collection
Ted.