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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Your Ticket to the Games | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...will be complete without a videotape player and recorder, along with a library of cassettes. Some companies have been putting movie classics on cassettes, as well as cooking lessons, travelogues and courses for salesmen and doctors. Many of the biggest companies in consumer electronics-RCA, CBS, Sony, Telefunken, Decca, Ampex, Avco -have poured fortunes into developing cassettes or special player attachments for home television sets that, any day now, would revolutionize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Television on a Disk | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...their cash at the disposal of a group of artists in order to give those artists a chance to construct ambitious works beyond the technological limits of their own studios. A total of 76 artists were introduced to a list of companies that ranged from Kaiser Steel to Ampex, from General Electric to Disneyland. Reactions to the proposed matings ranged from disdain to alarm. But eventually some 20 projects were realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man and Machine | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

Bagging a Speckled Bird. Hall has signed up some 36 independent record producers to replace the companies that have dropped Ampex contracts. More important, Ampex has established its own record-making division, partly to assure itself of a future supply of music. It has recruited The Great Speckled Bird, The American Dream and other singing groups to perform on tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Tangle in Tapes | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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