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  2. Ampex - Wikipedia

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    Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by ... Ampex's tape business was rendered obsolete during the 1990s, and the company ...

  3. Alexander M. Poniatoff - Wikipedia

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    In 1956, Ampex engineers created the world's first rotary head recorder, the VR-1000 videotape recorder. Poniatoff served as president of Ampex until 1955, when he was elected chairman of the board. He died in 1980.

  4. Au Bon Pain - Wikipedia

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    Former Au Bon Pain headquarters in Boston Au Bon Pain at Siam Square in Bangkok Au Bon Pain in the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame. ABP OPCO, LLC, doing business as Au Bon Pain, (French pronunciation: [o bɔ̃ pɛ̃], meaning "at the good bread" [2]) is an American fast casual restaurant, bakery, and café chain headquartered in Richardson, Texas, which operates 175 locations ...

  5. The Apex Companies - Wikipedia

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    The Apex auto center in Warwick closed in 2001 along with the store while the Pawtucket auto center is still in use. As the Apex company shrank due to financial hard times, the building has been the subject of continued speculation as to its future, with some insisting it is an eyesore, and others claiming it is an example of outstanding ...

  6. Myron Stolaroff - Wikipedia

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    After quitting from Ampex in 1961, Stolaroff established the International Foundation for Advanced Study in Menlo Park, a non-profit medical research organization. IFAS was both an experimental learning institution, and Stolaroff worked there with Willis Harman , Robert McKim, James Fadiman , and Robert Mogar.

  7. Amdahl Corporation - Wikipedia

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    From 1965, Gene Amdahl had been working at IBM on the IBM Advanced Computer Systems project (ACS), which intended to introduce what would be the world's fastest computer. . During a shake-up of the project in early 1968, Amdahl suggested the company to abandon the ACS-1 concept and instead use the techniques and circuit designs to build a System/360 compatible de

  8. Larry Crosby - Wikipedia

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    On 11 November 1951 Ampex and Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrated the first playback from the prototype BCE Mark I recorder at 360 ips. BCE Mark I used the deck of an Ampex 200, a portable magnetic tape recorder and had a bandwidth of about 1 MHz (SDTV has about 4.5 MHz). Bing had used the Ampex 200 to make high quality recordings of his shows ...

  9. SyntheSys Research - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded by Tom and Jim Waschura, identical twins who formerly worked for Ampex Corporation in Redwood City, California. Tom Waschura's electrical engineering degree from M.I.T. landed him a job at Ampex's Data Systems division working on tape recording and early parallel-transfer disk drives.