13 Facts About Ted Dabney

Ted Dabney's parents divorced while he was young and subsequently raised by his father.

Ted Dabney eventually got his high school diploma from San Mateo High School; Dabney credited a math teacher named Walker there that got him interested in the electronics and computing areas.

Ted Dabney then had a summer position with a local surveyor company, but when the work dried up by the winter, he was let go, and he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

Ted Dabney was able to leave the Corps as he had been admitted into San Francisco State University, but as he did not have the funds to support his education, he instead took a job with Bank of America based on his electronics experience, where he kept the Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting operational.

Ted Dabney left Bank of America after a year, and on recommendation of John Herbert, a colleague he worked with, was hired by Hewlett-Packard.

Ted Dabney joined Ampex in 1961, working in their military products section.

Once their one-off version proved successful, they ramped up production for scale, with Ted Dabney overseeing the manufacturing process.

Ted Dabney learned that Bushnell had patented his video circuit idea without including Dabney on the patent.

Around March 1973, Ted Dabney left the company over this falling out, selling his portion of the company's ownership for.

Ted Dabney went to work at Teledyne for about ten years before deciding to leave the industry.

Ted Dabney reappeared in 2009, following an announcement made by Paramount Pictures the previous year that they were going to make a biographical film based on Nolan Bushnell, but had never approached Ted Dabney for any input.

Ted Dabney was the subject of an oral history discussion with the Computer History Museum in July of 2012.

Ted Dabney died on May 26,2018, in his Clearlake home from complications from the cancer.