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Re:The Birth of Video Recording (1957) by Animats on Saturday August 11, 2018 @05:37PM (#17741699)
The last vestige of Ampex, their sign on US 101 in Redwood City, came down last week. Delta Information Systems owns the brand now, and uses it for solid-state aviation recorders.

Stanford ended up with the Museum of Magnetic Recording, with various historical machines including the first VTR, and they are supposedly in a warehouse in Livermore.

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Re:The Birth of Video Recording (1957) by corerius on Saturday August 11, 2018 @06:39PM (#17741932)
That is too bad. There was more to it than Redwood City.

Working in the broadcast equipment world, you run into old school people from that company. Here's one I used to know.

https://archive.org/details/HollywoodBowl

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Re:The Birth of Video Recording (1957) by russellbeattie on Saturday August 11, 2018 @06:31PM (#17741904)
What?? No! Really? I had no idea... I always pointed it out to visitors. Sorta sad! But I guess time moves on.

I wonder how many people in 60 years will remember some of the major tech companies of today. Already Sun microsystems is fading from memory... How long does Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have?

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Re:The Birth of Video Recording (1957) by WalterBright on Saturday August 11, 2018 @10:19PM (#17742604)
Who remembers RCA today, once the biggest corporation in America?
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Re:The Birth of Video Recording (1957) by Animats on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:08PM (#17746174)
RCA, at least in name, is still around. But it's just a licensing company that licenses the name to other manufacturers.

[1] http://www.rca.com/about

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