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Originally Posted by wa2ise
Reminds me of a stupid little company I worked for around 1979. We made machines that would take the video output of a cat scanner in a hospital, and expose it onto Xray film. As doctors back then were used to looking at and handling film and storing it that way too. All this machine was was a modified B&W video monitor (the kind intended for security systems), a lens and shutter, and an electronic controller using an 8060 microprocessor. Not 8080, this was a National Semiconductor 8060. And the mods to the monitor would turn off (blank) the CRT unless a picture was to be captured, and some circuits to allow an exact number of frames to be unblanked. To avoid that banding you get when taking pictures of a CRT TV set showing a picture. I think this company folded years ago, for laughs look at ebay for stuff from "Matrix Instruments". http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matrix-Instr...item5aea00fa0b
A friend there summed it as "A standard issue job at a typical company that made a boring product". |
I think the company I worked for in 1985 used these in the ultrasound console I worked on. Didn't you put a sheet of X-Ray film in a little rectangular holder and stuff it in the hole in front? I remember it made recordings of the open patient file's CRT display info on the film. After the shoot was over, I would take the film holder and stuff the film into the processor and included the resultant filmrecord in each unit's "Jacket" or DHR, for the clinical reviewers to look at. Jeez, I'd forgotten all about that gizmo... Outfit was called ATL Ultrasound at the time, it was the UltraMark 8 (Philips still runs the place today).