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    Dalmo-Victor. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence. Ampex operates as Ampex Data Systems Corporation...
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    The Ampex 601 was a portable, analog, reel-to-reel tape recorder produced by The Ampex Corporation from the mid-1950s through the 1960s. Ampex manufactured...
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    developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956 by Ampex, an American company based in Redwood City, California. The first videotape...
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    The Ampex ATR-100 is a multitrack tape recorder, designed by Ampex Corporation, of Redwood City, California, United States. It was introduced at the Spring...
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    reel-to-reel helical scan analog recording videotape format developed by Ampex in 1965, that was one of the first standardized reel-to-reel magnetic tape...
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  • From 1963 to 1970, Ampex manufactured several models of VTR 2-inch helical VTRs, capable of recording and playing back analog black and white video. Recording...
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    machine designed by Lindsey and Stolaroff: the Ampex Model 200A. Although an initial showcase of the Ampex machine was unable to demonstrate recording,...
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    model 5258, was an internal Ampex project. It was based on an Ampex 1 in (25 mm) data recorder transport with modified Ampex model 350 electronics. It stood...
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  • In 1956, Ampex engineers created the world's first rotary head recorder, the VR-1000 videotape recorder. Poniatoff served as president of Ampex until 1955...
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    for audio. Mullin said that he thought that it could be done. Bing asked Ampex to build one and also set up a laboratory for Mullin in Bing Crosby Enterprises...
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    recording helical scan videotape format co-developed and introduced by Ampex and Sony in 1976. It became the replacement in the professional video and...
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  • The Ampex Golden Reel Award was an international music award for studio albums and singles that were recorded and mixed entirely on Ampex audio tape,...
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    created by Ampex and introduced in 1988 at the NAB Show as a composite video alternative to the component video D-1 format. It garnered Ampex a technical...
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    recording component video videocassette format developed and introduced by Ampex in 1992. It was based on the D1 format, and unlike the uncompressed recording...
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    for Ampex and 3M magnetic tape products (video and audio) in 1949. In 1948 Bing Crosby Enterprises was awarded the distributorship right for Ampex recorders...
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    of magnetic tape from the BASF Historian and the founding curator of the Ampex museum. "Manfred von Ardenne". Archived from the original on 6 March 2023...
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    began his recording career in 1970 with a self-titled album released on the Ampex label. "Winchester's first LP was apolitical on the surface and not without...
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    1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records. It...
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  • Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, their 1971 eponymous album was their last for the Ampex label. The band scored a popular regional hit in the Chicago, Illinois area...
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    videotape. Ampex introduced a color videotape recorder in 1958 in a cross-licensing agreement with RCA, whose engineers had developed it from an Ampex black-and-white...
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  • 9, 1992) was an American engineer and the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders. Ginsburg...
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  • 1959, Ampex acquired Orradio Industries and it became the Ampex Magnetic Tape Division. In 1995, Ampex divested this division, then called the Ampex Recording...
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  • Runt (album) (category Ampex Records albums)
    Ampex release which reverses Sides One and Two of the LP, in order to sequence the longer side first. The second issue was the 1971 Bearsville Ampex release...
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  • clear homage to old Ampex audio recording tape boxes. The band are known for using analog tape for their recordings, and are fans of Ampex tape and tape recorders...
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  • Within a few weeks, Herbert had moved on to Ampex and convinced Dabney to interview there. Dabney joined Ampex in 1961, working in their military products...
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  • Tape Desk and video Scanner Quadruplex videotape Ampex AVR-2 Video Head Sony U-Matic Video head Ampex audio recorder VHS heads Nagra audio heads: erase...
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  • configurations. The original reel-to-reel version (manufactured for Capitol/EMI by Ampex) contains edited versions of "Got This Thing on the Move", "Please Don't...
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  • another beam would receive and display the image. Charles Ginsburg led an Ampex research team to develop one of the first practical video tape recorders...
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    President and Treasurer at Ampex, he spearheaded Ampex's initial public offering (IPO) in 1959. In addition, he led Ampex's study to merge with Orr Industries...
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    Model 9000 Video tape recorder (VTR) Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Ampex 2 inch helical VTR Symmetric Phase Recording "Rotary magnetic head drum...
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