Geek Fact for April 14th

By Judy Novotny / 04/14/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1956, Ampex Corporation demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture.

The VR-1000 was the first practical broadcast-quality recorder. It recorded a black and white picture with a mono audio channel on a 2″ wide video tape.

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Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.