Current Situation
The Ampex video system is now obsolete, but thousands upon thousands of quadruplex videotape recordings remain. Those machines which still survive have been pressed into service to transfer archival recordings onto modern digital video formats.
Ampex Corporation is the parent company of Ampex Data Systems which manufactures digital archiving systems, principally for the broadcast industry. On March 30, 2008, Ampex Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization according to its web site. It continues normal operations and plans to re-emerge.
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.
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