In an age when video cameras and recording devices are virtually everywhere, it's difficult to believe that it wasn't always possible to walk into a Wal-Mart or Best Buy store with $50 and leave with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...