In 1969, Ampex created and maintained the Videofile system, which recorded files and photos to a magnetic videotape system long before the advent of commercial computer hard drives (to this day, Britain’s New Scotland Yard still uses the Videofile system to store perpetrators’ fingerprints)
A random UK reference aside in Chris Stokel-Walker’s post at Buzzfeed on The Inside Story Of Pong. Ampex is where many of the early Atari developers started up. (via blech)