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Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Ampex, was Ampex license Oly.
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:59:37 -0800
I think I read something years ago about copying a German recorder, but 
I did not connect it Ampex and it was missing the other colorful 
details. Thanks.



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:09 PM, Tim Hughes wrote:

> Their consumer division was never that great. The professional tape 
> recorder division was much better.  Although from an inovation point 
> of view, the very first Ampex recorder was a close copy of German 
> Magnetophon  technology captured in WWII.  The magnetophon was way 
> ahead of anything else of the time, being a true hi-fi recorder with 
> modern type of iron oxide tape, low distortion and wide bandwidth. 
> Equivalent of a modern taperecorder.  It enabled the Germans to fool 
> people into thinking Hitler was broadcasting live, from places he was 
> not actually at.
>
> Tim Hughes


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