Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestone-Proposal talk:Ampex Videotape Recorder - 1956/Citation

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To call kinescopes impractical is hardly fair to the engineers and staff who used that system for over ten years. Since there was no alternative and a small industry developed around it, kinescopes served their intended purpose, if not as conveniently as participants wished.

To focus on Ampex's accomplishment and keep the citation usefully brief, I recommend that it stop at "for twenty years." Delete "replaced by smaller, less-expensive analog and digital videotape formats and non-tape, computer-based servers." Supporters of those formats can nominate their own Milestones.