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Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor. [1] [2] The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence. [3]
Data Storage Technology (DST) is a 19 mm (0.75 in) wide magnetic tape data storage format created by Ampex in 1992. The DST format was also made by Ampex as a digital videotape format, DCT, using the same design of cassette. DST is relatively high capacity and high speed, especially compared to other tape technologies available in the 1990s.
Originally located at 79 Washington Street in Brooklyn, New York, Amperex was a long-established manufacturer of transmitting tubes when they were acquired by the Dutch firm, Philips, (known more widely as Norelco in the US), around 1955.
By 1960, engineers at Ampex Corporation in had recognized the superior quality of the recorded TV images being shown on a certain Chicago TV station (WBKB). [1] Coleman was quickly lured to join Ampex in Redwood City, California where he spent the rest of his career on perfecting video tape recording [6] and pushing the boundaries of high data-rate tape-recording. [7]
Type A was developed as mainly an industrial and institutional format, where it saw the most success. It was not widely used for broadcast television, since it did not meet Federal Communications Commission (FCC) specifications for broadcast videotape formats; the only format passing the FCC's muster at the time was the then-industry-standard 2-inch quadruplex.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
The California Secretary of State's database shows AMPEX as "Surrendered" and "Merged Out", so calling it a going concern is a bit much. Changed the text to "A remnant of the company, Ampex Data Systems, remains as part of the Delta Information Systems group" John Nagle 19:13, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
1-inch Type C Helical Scan or SMPTE C is a professional reel-to-reel analog recording helical scan videotape format co-developed and introduced by Ampex and Sony in 1976. It became the replacement in the professional video and broadcast television industries for the then-incumbent 2-inch quadruplex videotape (2-inch Quad for short) open-reel format.