Word: ampex
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Even when American engineers and researchers come up with new ideas and technologies, their companies often fail to follow up. The genesis of the videocassette recorder is a classic case in point. The basic technology for the VCR was invented at a California-based company called Ampex and developed further at R.C.A. Yet it was two Japanese companies -- Sony and JVC -- that bought rights to the technology and modified it. After 10,000 patented improvements, they made the VCR an affordable household product...
Research and Development. Expenditures for nondefense R. and D. in the U.S. have been far behind those of our major competitors, and American firms have often been slow to turn new technology into commercial products. For example, the American firm Ampex in 1956 introduced video tape recorders for use in the television industry. But Japanese firms recognized the potential for home VCRs, and today they virtually control a worldwide $10 billion market. The Japanese reputation for manufacturing high-quality products is built in large part on American technology. Reported the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness early this year: "Robotics...
...center, set on Sarajevo's main street, is a 60,000-sq.-ft. marble-floored palace of technology. Two control rooms, one with a wall of 70 flickering TV monitors, relay pictures from rinks and slopes around the city. In addition, there are ten editing cubicles and 36 Ampex VTR-30 videotape machines, which can play three hours of tape, then rewind it in 90 seconds. Snaking through the building are 150 miles of cable. Designed and constructed in Los Angeles, the center was disassembled and shipped to New York City, reassembled and tested in a warehouse for what...
...hogs we sold in dollars, but we couldn't keep rack of them by pounds and numbers at the same time." He started shopping around and finally acquired a $12,000 combination at a shop in Lafayette, Ind.: a microcomputer from California Comput er Systems, a video screen from Ampex, a Diablo word printer and an array of agricultural programs...