Vintage 1967 AMPEX First Color Video Disc Recorder HS-100 Instant Replay and Slow-Motion (TV)

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020721 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. {Updated & Improved video}: AMPEX Corporation's HS-100 - the FIRST Color Video Disc Recorder for SLOW-MO (Slow Motion) and Instant Replay (1967). The HS-100 used Nickel-Cobalt Aluminum magnetic disc to record live video for INSTANT REPLAY. ABC used the HS-100 for slow motion replay during televised sports events. The computer-controlled HS-200 is also mentioned. We hope you enjoy this brief tribute to this iconic Ampex machine.
- - - Dedicated to AMPEX employees, past and present. - - -
Run time, about 6 mins.
Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). Editing: Victor Kaminsky; consulting: Mark Greenia.

Acknowledgements - - - - - Special Thanks to:
VT Oldboys.com, a great web site on early video technology
http://www.vtoldboys.com/slo60_3.htm
http://www.vtoldboys.com/

LabGuy's World: The History of Video Tape Recorders before Betamax and VHS”.
A large, well organized collection of vintage information, facts, photos, and detail.
http://www.labguysworld.com/

American Broadcasting Company
“ABC” logo and “Wide World of Sports” historic clip courtesy of ABC Television Network; “Dick Cavett” clip courtesy of ABC late night, (ABC is a Walt Disney Company since 1996)

For historical information on AMPEX, and current businesses,
http://www.Ampex.com

FILM: “Success Story” (History of Ampex)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Q1T_2C72g
(uploaded by Stephen Barncard)

“The Early Days of Ampex Corporation, as Recalled by John Leslie and Ross Snyder.”
http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/company.histories/ampex/leslie_snyder_early-days-of-ampex.pdf

Department of Special Collections, Stanford University holds physical records
http://library.stanford.edu/

Milestones: Ampex Videotape Recorder, 1956
https://ethw.org/Milestones:Ampex_Videotape_Recorder,_1956

Museum of early consumer electronics and 1st achievements
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/ampex.htm

AMPEX TODAY
Ampex Data Systems Corporation ("ADSC”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Information Systems. Inc and is headquartered in Hayward, California. It is an industry leader in high-capacity, high-performance data storage systems.

Ampex Intelligent Systems (AIS) is the Colorado Springs business unit of Ampex Data Systems Corporation (“ADSC”) which is headquartered in Silicon Valley. AIS provides revolutionary industrial control system cyber security solutions for critical infrastructures.
Visit ampex.com

This video is for historic and educational use only.
Not affiliated with Ampex Corporation.

Note: MachTronics (aka MVR Corp.) produced an analog video recorder for CBS television back in the 1960’s. That machine is not covered in this video, but will be explored in a future video.

Past News about the famous AMPEX SIGN
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/ampex-sign-long-a-silicon-valley-fixture-being-dismantled/210567/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/17/stanford-tears-down-piece-of-silicon-valley-history/
https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/

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