The story of post-war magnetic tape recording is really really interesting. It dovetails into the history of silicon valley with the creation of AMPEX and all

The story of post-war magnetic tape recording is really really interesting. It dovetails into the history of silicon valley with the creation of AMPEX and all of the companies and engineers that sprung out of there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex Ray Dolby was once an AMPEX engineer, as were Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn (Atari).