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2 unusual facts about Charles Ginsburg


Magnetic tape

It was the team at Ampex, led by Charles Ginsburg, that made the breakthrough of using a spinning recording head and normal tape speeds to achieve a very high head-to-tape speed that could record and reproduce the high bandwidth signals of video.

Video

Charles Ginsburg led an Ampex research team developing one of the first practical video tape recorder (VTR).



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