Ampex Data Systems Corporation

'Cause this was before cassettes.

But honest to goodness, Paul Klipsch made mixtapes to have a variety of, I guess, using, like, Ampex 300s and 350s or, or MagnaChords to demo the speakers to himself.

Hmm.

And they played a vinyl record through, uh, I believe it was an Onkyo, you know, 'cause they're all in the same corporate umbrella now.

'Cause this is before cassettes.

But honest to goodness, Paul Klipsch made mix tapes to have a variety of, I guess, using, like, Ampex 300s and 350s or, or Magna Chords to demo the speakers to himself.

Hmm.

And they played a vinyl record through, uh, I believe it was an Onkyo, you know, 'cause they're all in the same corporate umbrella now-

'Cause this was before cassettes.

But honest to goodness, Paul Klipsch made mixtapes to have a variety of, I guess, using, like, Ampex 300s and 350s or, or MagnaChords to demo the speakers to himself.

Hmm.

And they played a vinyl record through, uh, I believe it was an Onkyo, you know, 'cause they're all in the same corporate umbrella now-

And the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project would digitize the 1966 and 67 analog tapes and finish primary capture on the 20th of February 2014.

Only worked because somebody restored a 1960s Ampex FR-900 drive to read them.

Okay.

Okay.

That hobby directly influenced his career.

His first boss at Ampex, Kurt Wallace, hired him partly because of it.

Several hiring stories reinforce the principle.

Al Alcorn, described as the most creative engineer Bushnell ever met, channeled his passion for cars and constant side projects directly into his work.

Managers should actively extract those lists rather than hoarding hiring authority.

This approach became embedded in Silicon Valley culture.

Bushnell practiced it aggressively at Atari, recruiting Al Alcorn, Steve Bristow, Steve Meyer, and roughly 20 others from Ampex, even hiring Ampex's exceptional plant nurse before one was needed.

Jobs and Wozniak later replicated the method by poaching from Atari.