[rollei_list] Re: OT: It's Coming Around Again

  • From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:08:21 -0700

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/timeline/hist_60s.html

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 6:08 PM, John Jensen <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Re HP (and the medical line), the medical line was originally Sanborn (in
> Massachusetts).  I believe Sanborn was purchased by HP in the early 60s.
>
> John
>
> --- On *Sun, 10/3/10, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
>
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: It's Coming Around Again
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 3:24 PM
>
>
> At 01:08 AM 10/3/2010, you wrote:
>
> http://www.rickbucich.com/blog/2010/07/remembering-siliconfilm.html
>
> http://www.visualimpressions.com/Digital_Film.pdf
>
> Jim
>
> On Oct 2, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>
> > Jerry I'm waiting for someone to market "digital film." With a bit of
> > a stretch of the lexicon, you could say that it is already in use in
> > the medical imaging arena...
> >
> >
> > Eric Goldstein
> >
> > --
>
>
> I have a very vague recollection of that silicon-film writeup, but am
> pretty sure I have actually bought memory cards with the label "Digital
> Film" on them.  Not sure which format or who made them.  I suppose that name
> had already been copyrighted by someone so it only appeared for a short
> time.  The idea of a "Drop-in" digital replacement for 35mm cartridges was
> pursued by more than one company but I don't think any of them got past the
> prototype, or even the mock-up stages.
>
> In the medical arena, I have no idea what it's called, but for at least
> 10-12 years my X-rays have all been digital, (except in small practices),
> and I have been able to get CD's of the images for my own curiosity and also
> to pass on to new docs as I have moved from the San Diego area to
> Mid-Oklahoma.
>
> I sometimes send them to friends, who seriously dislike seeing them, not
> sure why.  I can recognize my own chest and can even recognize my lungs
> based on a scar created by Valley Fever about 20 years ago.  My chest looks
> somewhat like a barbed wire fence plus a lot of wiring and electrical
> leads.
>
> I believe that most of the X-rays are now made using equipment that is
> manufactured by newer companies, I hardly ever see Pickett or Triplett
> (Triplett was mostly industrial X-ray systems anyhow).
>
> It's sad to realize that my favorite electronics instrument company, HP,
> has sold their medical equipment business to Phillips.
>
> Back to the main subject, I am sure that around here somewhere there are
> memory cards that have the words "Digital Film" as part of the nomenclature.
>
> DAW
>
>


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Peter K
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