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 ...

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 ...

By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The last time Brenden Bobby took a week off from “Mad About Science,” we wrote about 1950s ...

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 ...

Charles (Charlie) E. Anderson, a member of the six-person Ampex team who developed the first successful video recorder, died on July 12 after suffering a stroke at a nursing care facility in Sparks, ...

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 ...