Mike Spurgeon wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:I still remember standing on the foot X-ray in the Thom McCann shoe store, holding the button down and wiggling my toes while peering at the fluoroscope. ;-)That was definitely a late 40's, early 50's thing for me. I guess you saw it somewhat later...
Nope--same time! ;-) The machines were used primarily during the 1940s and 1950's, and their use was discontinued in the late 1950s because the dangers of radiation from the (unshielded) machines was finally recognized--particularly since children were the usual targets. I saw them and played with them in grade school, which was late 1940s, early 1950s. ;-) -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."