This is the Ampex TV Equipment Section of
The Broadcast Archive

Ampex is probably better known for tape recorders than almost any other company; the name Ampex becoming almost synonymous with the machines. Sure, there was RCA, IVC, and other early makers. But Ampex became the industry standard format, both in audio and video recording.

The Ampex video system is now obsolete, but many thousands of quadruplex & 1" Helical Scan videotape recordings remain. Machines that survive are used to transfer archival recordings to modern digital video formats. MBT VTR Museum
Between March 30, 2008 and October of that year, Ampex Corp. reorganized under Chapter 11 and divested itself of its remaining going concern in October, 2014.
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Ampex Corporation supported the Ampex Museum of Magnetic Recording, started by Peter Hammar in 1982. .... The contents of that museum were donated to Stanford in 2001.
Source: Wikipedia July 2015

Television Equipment

Video Tape Recorders:

Photo	Year	Model/Misc. Remarks
	1956	VR-1000 - At CBS Television City The same VR-1000 on the 25th Anniversary shown in BE Magazine
	1964	VR1100
	1964	VR-1200 - (Color Photo) Features - Without Doors - Electronics
	1964	VR-2000 - VR-2000B
	1967	VR-3000 a portable, two-inch quad-head VTR built into a suitcase
	1971	AVR-1 Color Photo - Internal View 1976 NAB Exhibit
	1974	AVR-2 - (Color Photo)
	1976	AVR-3 - Internal View EDM-1 Production Editing System
	1970	ACR-25 - (Color Photo) - 1976 NAB Exhibit
	1976	VPR-1 - Console Configuration
	1978	VPR-2B
	1986	VPR-3
	1984	VPR-5 - Portable 1" Helical VTR (Developed by Ampex & Nagra)
	1984	VPR-6
	1982	VPR-80
	1976	VPR-10 - 1" Helical Portable VTR - - VPR-10 Catalog Sheet
	1978	VPR-20 - 1" Helical Portable VTR - - VPR-20B - 1981
	1990	VPR-300 a D2 machine. Recorder first announced in 1988 Last unit made in 1994
	1967	Ampex HS-100 Disk Recorder and the HS-200 Console - (1968)
	1977	ESS Storage System - ESS-2 Digital Video Production System

Cameras:

Photo	Year	Model/Misc. Remarks
	1968	Ampex BC-100 Portable Live color Camera
	1969	Ampex BC-110 Portable Live color Camera
	1969	Ampex BC-210 Live color Camera
	1970	Ampex BC-230 Live color Camera
	1973	Ampex BC-230B Live color Camera
	1975	Ampex BCC-4 Live color Camera
	1975	Ampex BCC-1 Live color Camera
	1976	Ampex BCC-3 Live color Camera
	1979	Ampex BCC-10 Live color Camera BCC-10 Brochure - Features - Specs. Sheet
	1979	Ampex BCC-14 Live color Camera
	1980	Ampex BCC-20 Live color Camera
	1982	Ampex BCC-21 Live color Camera
	1983	Ampex FPC-10 Portable Camera Live color Camera
	1984	Ampex ARC-10 Portable Camera/Recorder Combination

AMPEX Catalogs

 

If you have any old photos of Ampex equipment that operated at your TV facility which  you would like to have in our Virtual Museum,
please send them along, so we might add them to this page.