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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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Mullin, Crosby invested $50,000 in the California electronics company Ampex to build copies. He then persuaded ABC to allow him to tape his shows and...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • cardioid and M-49/50 omnidirectional microphones. Then they switched to an Ampex 300–3 one-half inch machine, running at 15 inches per second (which was...
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    L101 (Volume 1) and L2101 (Volume 2). "Example of Ampex 'White Album' reel-to-reel artwork". Ampex/Capitol Records. 1970. Retrieved 15 July 2014. McGeary...
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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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    quality of the black and white TV broadcasts from WBKB By 1960, engineers at Ampex Corporation in had recognized the superior quality of the recorded TV images...
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    demo tapes at night in Daly City, California, on a one-inch, four-track Ampex tape machine Buckingham kept at the coffee-roasting plant belonging to his...
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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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    the technology, made a large investment in the tape hardware manufacturer Ampex. A wide variety of audiotape recorders and formats have been developed since...
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    and the major networks all had the new (B&W) videotape recorders from Ampex, a black and white kinescope is all that remains. It featured songs still...
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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 (RCA...
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    birdsong-like guitar riffs. In 1949, Crosby gave Paul one of the first Ampex Model 200A reel to reel tape recorders. Paul invented sound on sound recording...
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    were modifications of captured German recorders. In the late 1940s, the Ampex company produced the first tape recorders commercially available in the...
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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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  • 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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  • death in March 2021, at the age of 81. Bearsville's initial distributor was Ampex Records. From 1972 until its folding, the label was distributed by Warner...
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