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Re: Kodak X-ray film lowers radiation dose
It was the spirit duplicator output with the funky alcohol smell.
Mimeograph is a stencil process. The ink used in the mimeograph machines
had a distinctive odor also.
Syd H. Levine
AnaLog Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@MED.VA.GOV>
To: "'Sandy Perle'" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>; <JGinniver@AOL.COM>;
<jim_hoerner@HOTMAIL.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; "Vernig, Peter G."
<Peter.Vernig@MED.VA.GOV>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: Kodak X-ray film lowers radiation dose
> Sandy and Everybody,
>
> I didn't say replace all I said largely replace.
>
> I bought my first real PC, a Texas Instruments unit in the early 80s about
> the same time the company I worked for bought an IBM XT for general
clerical
> and other use.
>
> I went to a bank about 2000 and asked if I could type a very short letter
> and they said something like, "Oh, sure, over there, I think we still have
> some ribbons if they have dried out." You can still buy typewriters
today,
> I even found a place where you can get them repaired recently but I'd
guess
> over 90% of the keyboarding is just that, typing on a keyboard using a
> computer as a word processor rather than on a typewriter.
>
> We still had occasion to use our typewriter for my daughter's college and
> scholarship applications.
>
> My guess would be in twenty years x-ray film will be about where the
> typewriter is now.
>
> Hey anybody remember mimeograph machines and the funky smell of the
masters
> before Xerox came along?
>
> Any opinions in this e-mail are solely those of the author, and are not
> represented as those of the VA Eastern Colorado HCS, the Dept. of Veterans
> Affairs, or the US Government.
>
> Peter G. Vernig, Radiation Safety Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care
> System, 1055 Clermont St. Denver, CO 80220, peter.vernig@med.va.gov,
Phone=
> 303.399.8020 x2447; Fax = 303.393.5026, alternate fax, 303.393.5248
>
> "...whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is lovely, whatever is
> admirable, if anything is found to be excellent or praiseworthy, let your
> mind dwell on these things."
>
> Paul of Tarsus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:49 AM
> To: 'JGinniver@AOL.COM'; jim_hoerner@HOTMAIL.COM;
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; Vernig, Peter G.
> Subject: RE: Kodak X-ray film lowers radiation dose
>
>
> On 5 Aug 2004 at 9:56, Vernig, Peter G. wrote:
>
> > Film is passé and will probably soon be all but obsolete in this
> > country. Digital imaging is here now and we switched over a year ago
> > in radiology. One of our clinics uses it in their dental clinic we do
> > not as yet, matter of inertia and start up costs. But besides
> > reducing use of chemicals with toxic silver [that's right silver] and
> > attendant silver recovery it allows us to read studies from two of our
> > clinics here.
>
> The above may be true, but as John just wrote, this may not be as
> feasible for older, established, but small X-ray facilities. I expect
> that Kodak, as well as other manufacturers, will continue to offer
> film, and, it will continue to be used, until existing equipment in
> offices can no longer be maintained, or upgraded.
>
> ------------------------------------
> Sandy Perle
> Senior Vice President, Technical Operations
> Global Dosimetry Solutions, Inc.
> 3300 Hyland Avenue
> Costa Mesa, CA 92626
>
> Tel:(714) 545-0100 / (800) 548-5100 Extension 2306
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>
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