{"id":25008,"date":"2014-08-20T06:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25008"},"modified":"2021-05-04T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:01:30","slug":"first-handmy-ten-years-at-ampex-and-the-development-of-the-video-recorder-ghn-ieee-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25008","title":{"rendered":"Videotape Ground Zero\u2026A First Hand Account From Fred Pfost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fantastic, first hand account from Ampex videotape team member Fred Pfost of the entire process of creating the VR-1000&#8230; the world&#8217;s first commercially viable videotape machine.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rare front row seat to one of television&#8217;s biggest ever moments and beautifully told by someone who was there. There are details here you will never see anywhere else, so save this historic treasure and share it with you friends! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p>[pdf-embedder url=&#8221;https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pfost-firsthand.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeeghn.org\/wiki\/index.php\/First-Hand:My_Ten_Years_at_Ampex_and_the_Development_of_the_Video_Recorder\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"First-Hand:My Ten Years at Ampex and the Development of the Video Recorder - GHN: IEEE Global...\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/First-HandMy-Ten-Years-at-Ampex-and-the-Development-of-the-Video-Recorder-GHN-IEEE-Global.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/718180214886197\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fantastic, first hand account from Ampex videotape team member Fred Pfost of the entire process of creating the VR-1000&#8230; the world&#8217;s first commercially viable videotape machine. This is a rare front row seat to one of television&#8217;s biggest ever moments and beautifully told by someone who was there. There are details here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[780,806],"class_list":["post-25008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ampex","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61935,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25008\/revisions\/61935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}