Ampex "Signature V" home entertainment center
date: label: date made
content: 1963
name: label: maker
content: Ampex Corporation
label: maker
content: General Electric Lighting Company
label: maker
content: Fisher Radio
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ampex "Signature V" home entertainment center including built-in Fisher AM/FM Multiplex radio tuner, Stereo Master Audio Control, Garard type A II Laboratory Series automatic stereo turntable, Ampex type F-44 Fine Line reel-to-reel audio tape recorder, built-in speakers, Packard Bell 21" color television receiver and an Ampex reel-to-reel video tape recorder. Two panels open on top, one covers the video tape recorder bay and the other covers the audio component bay. Unit has GE "Lumiline" tubular incandescent lamps installed under the two lids, a 12" x 40W and a 18" x 60W are on each side. A panel on front left covers the video camera connections. (push to open.) Two panels in center cover the television screen (push to open). A boxed owner’s manual with technical sheets - 12.75" x 6.5" x 10.5" - also came with the unit.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Unit is one of five manufactured. Includes the first home video recording system. Sold during the Christmas 1963 season through the Nieman Marcus catalog, retail price $30,000.00 with perhaps one unit sold. Other units were demonstrated in hi-fi stores around the US. This unit was offered to an Ampex employee who used it in his home for many years.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Maureen Quinn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0014.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0014.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: entertainment center
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 1/2 in x 108 in x 30 in; 100.33 cm x 274.32 cm x 76.2 cm