[QuadList] History - what is the REAL story

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Hi Folks,

I had heard that RCA invented the air bearing headwheel and this is 
what Ampex wanted. Any comments?

Regards,
Harold


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Norwood <dwnorwood at embarqmail.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 7:34 pm
Subject: Re: [QuadList] History - what is the REAL story









----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Park Seward" 
 

> Perhaps some of you can point to the true stories. 

> 

> Story one: 

> 

> Ampex, having developed a way to record color on quad, needed the 

> transistor technlogy tjhat RCA had abd RCA nedded the Ampex patents 

> for color. So they did a parent swap with RCA getting color and Ampex 

> getting transistor technology. 

> 

> Some think the transistor technology was actually gotten from Sony. 

> 

> Time frame should be around 1958 or so. 
 

Hi Park: 
 

I certainly have no first hand knowledge, but --somewhere--, I think I 
have
a copy of some correspondence from one of the Ampex guys that was 
there.
Perhaps Tim could ask Charlie Anderson what he knows about it.  Anyway, 
I
didn't think that it had anything to do with the transistor, but rather 
that
Ampex needed RCA color technology and RCA needed Ampex's videotape
technology.  The only thing I=2
0can find at the moment that supports this 
is
the following: 
 

>From the industry briefs part of the January 1958 Radio & TV News: 

"RCA and Ampex Corporation have signed an agreement for the exchange of
patent licenses covering 

video tape recording and reproducing systems for both black-and-white 
and
color." 
 

Don 
 


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