22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
12:04 p.m.
Hi
Cameron Kaiser said:
It didn't have a Sun look, just a large painted metal cube, not quite
wide enough to take rack-mounted stuff - anyway it was connected to a
large, about 21-inch, white phosphor hi-res display by a thick coax
cable, I could follow that back to the box, and an anonymous keyboard.
It's very interesting to see your innards come up on a screen!
The radiation detector was about 2 foot diameter and finished in that
creamy-grey that Soviet optical equipment frequently came in - knowing
how our National Health Service is always so strapped for cash I wasn't
surprised it looked old and obsolete even then...(about 1999).
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
When I went to
have my chest checked a few years ago (they had me
breathing radioactive gas...) the imaging was done by a beige
cube-shaped computer, about 18 inches on a side, using 8-inch floppies
(there were boxes of them on a shelf). Unfortunately I couldn't sneak
round the other side to see the front panel.
I don't think this is what was scanning you :) but there are a lot of old
Suns still out there as medical imaging devices.