Editing Ampex (section)

== Legacy and Archives ==

The Ampex video system is obsolete, but many thousands of quadruplex videotape recordings remain. Machines that survive are used to transfer archival recordings to modern digital video formats.

Ampex Corporation supported the Ampex Museum of Magnetic Recording, started by Peter Hammar in 1982.<ref name="hammar">
"The Ampex Museum of Magnetic Recording" by curator Peter Hammar. "Electronic Servicing & Technology" magazine 1982 June.
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The contents of that museum were donated to Stanford in 2001.<ref>
[http://www.aes.org/aeshc/museums/apx.stanford/ampex_museum_status_report_2003-10-01.html "Ampex Museum Status Report 2003"] by former curator Hammar.
</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://recordist.com/ampex/ |title="Ampex Virtual Museum" |access-date=January 29, 2008 |archive-date=February 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209075307/http://recordist.com/ampex/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> A project is underway to curate Ampex artifacts in physical and digital form. This project will find a permanent home in Redwood City for the Ampex Museum and digital artifacts will be curated at AmpexMuseum.org<ref>
[http://AmpexMuseum.org/ "AmpexMuseum.org"] by Hammar, Wilson, Parker
</ref> This project is being funded by contributions from former Ampex employees.