MEMORIAM: Fred Pfost: The Birth of the VTR and Its Ampex Inventors

The 1952-to-1956 saga of the six-member Ampex R&D engineering team creating the world's first broad-cast-quality videotape recorder ended on 4 December 2023, with the death of the last surviving VTR team member, R. Fred Pfost, at age 95.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2024-05

Content type

Obiturary

DOI

10.5594/JMI.2024/NNIL2680