So often when we read of a modification on a classic piece of tube electronics we prepare to wince, as such work often results in senseless butchery of a well-preserved survivor. With [Frank Olson]’s ...

KNBC announcer Jack Wagner records a news feature from the San Francisco waterfront in the mid-1950s. The recorder is the famous Ampex 601 professional suitcase portable, an industry workhorse for ...

CBS goes on air with the first videotape delayed broadcast, Douglas Edwards and The News, using the Ampex Mark IV. Ampex introduced the videotape recorder on April 14, 1956, at the National ...

One of the towering figures in the evolution of computer science was Grace Hopper, an American mathematician, academic, and Naval reservist, whose work gave us the first programming languages, ...

AMPEX engineers called their machine the VR-1000; it used a spinning head and ran 2" tape, and would be the first in AMPEX's line of Quadruplex recorders. The team was led by Charles Ginsburg, and on ...

KYA(AM) Studio Engineer Carl Christiansen. Photo courtesy of Kevin Mostyn.In the radio studios of the 1950s, commercials and recorded announcements were played from 16-inch Electrical Transcriptions ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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PRESS RELEASE: Universal Audio, renowned manufacturer of high-quality audio hardware and award-winning UAD-2 Powered Plug-ins for Mac and PC, today announced a partnership with the legendary Ampex ...

Videotape still stores the intellectual assets of several generations of television production. Commercial videotape recording began in the late 1950s. Though audio recordings on acetate strips had ...