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Magnetic tape

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7-inch reel of ¼-inch-wide audio recording tape, typical of consumer use in the 1950s–70s Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders respectively. A device that stores computer data on magnetic tape is known as a tape drive. Magnetic tape revolutionized Sound recording and reproduction and broadcasting. It allowed radio, which had always been broadcast live, to be recorded for later or repeated airing. It allowed gramophone records to be recorded in multiple parts, which were then mixed and edited with tolerable loss in quality. It was a key technology in early computer development, allowing unparalleled amounts of data to be mechanically created, stored for long periods, and rapidly accessed. In recent decad...

Lockheed Corporation

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Lockheed Corporation Industry Aerospace Fate Merged with Martin Marietta Successor Lockheed Martin Founded 1926 Defunct 1995 Headquarters Calabasas, California [1] Products Aircraft The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995. The founder, Allan Lockheed, had earlier founded the similarly named but otherwise unrelated Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which was operational from 1912 through 1920. Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 Prewar production 1.3 Production during World War II 1.4 Postwar production 1.5 Skunk Works 1.6 Projects during the Cold War 1.7 Bribery scandals 1.8 Attempted leveraged buyout 1.9 Timeline 2 Divisions 2.1 Aeronautical Systems group 2.2 Missiles, Space, and Electronics Systems Group 2.3 Marine Systems group 2.4 Information Systems group 3 Product list 3.1 Airliners and civil transports 3.2 Military transports 3.3 Fight...

Heart Of Champions

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Ampex

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Not to be confused with APMEX. Ampex Data Systems Corporation Type Subsidiary of Delta Information Systems Industry Data and instrumentation technology for acquisition, storage, and processing of visual information Founded 1944 ; 74 years ago  ( 1944 ) Founder Alexander M. Poniatoff Headquarters Hayward, California , United States Products miniR® 700 Mini-Recorder, TuffServ 540 & 640 smart NAS, TuffCORD smart NAS, AMux700 DAU, BLUE IQ deep-learning data management, BLUE Sentry on-board cyber security Website www.ampex.com Former Ampex headquarters on Broadway Ampex 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 a portmanteau, created by its founder, which stands for A lexander M . P oniatoff Ex cellence. [3] At one time public, the company now operates as Ampex Data Systems, a subsidiary of Delta Information Systems. Ampex was sold to Delta in October 2014. Ampex's first great s...