Some great threads have cropped up on the Ampex list lately.
Here's a link to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. The highlight for us is the Jack Mullen collection which includes "The" Magnetophon that started it all!
If you're in Minnesota,..
Be sure and click on "John T "Jack" Mullen Collection for a nice little history and pictures of the machines.
http://www.museumofbroadcasting.org/history.htmlIf you haven't heard Jack talk about the machine that changed his life, click on the b&w photo (3rd from the top) at his link.
http://en.goldenmap.com/Jack_MullinAlso, Rangertone tape machines came up as a subject. I'd heard of them but had no idea that they were neck and neck with Ampex in trying to get a professional machine to market. The Ampex 200 won that race.
There's a wiki on Richard H. Ranger who developed the Rangertones along with the NBC chimes machine.
Be sure and click on the link to John Herbert Orr who was also one of the "fathers" of magnetic tape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._RangerBTW Did you guys know that Jack Mullen was buried with a reel of tape?
