Ampex is an American electronics company that began in 1944, when Alexander M. Poniatoff founded it as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor; its name is an acronym of his own name plus the word excellence. Its first great success was a line of reel-to-reel tape recorders developed from the German wartime Magnetophon system at the urging of Bing Crosby, and it soon led the field in audio tape for music and for film sound. From the 1950s it turned to video tape recorders and later the helical scan approach that made home video players possible, and it also brought multi-track recording and slow-motion and instant playback to television. The tape business was made obsolete in the 1990s, and the company moved into digital data storage and industrial and defence recorders. It now operates as Ampex Data Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Delta Information Systems.
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Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff
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Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company
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Ampex operates as Ampex Data Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Delta Information Systems
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They also introduced multi-track recording, slow-motion and instant playback television
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