Hi Thomas,

> I worked for Ampex Corporation for 15 years as a Metrology Engineer. I was responsible for creating measurement standards and techniques for all world video standards.

>Ampex produced the worlds first commercial audio tape recorder and invented Video recording, Editing and Instant Replay. Sony had a superior technical system for the consumer video recorder market but JVC had the superior marketing/sales staff. Both Sony and JVC (and any one who manufactures video tape recorders) paid/pays Ampex a royalty for each machine they produce for using patented technology.

My partner, Richard ("Dicky") Derickson, participated in the design of Ampex's studio digital audio recorder in the late 70's...did you know any of that team? (It never went commercial, thoguh...I think Sony had about 30 engineers on their corresponding project, Ampex had 3).

J