Atari in hospital

I was contacted some time ago by some person asking me if I can help with repair or replacement of Atari 800XL for hospital. I was very curious about that, because it's known that Czech hospitals are in bad financial situation but I just wondered how they could use it at the end of the nineties. The person was kind enough to send me some details about setup and also sent me few pictures.

## Description

It's used in child cardiocenter in Faculty Hospital Motol for the heart diagnosis. They are looking for uninvited leaks between two parts of heart. Principle is in injecting isotope in blood and screening its movement in vascular system of pacient.

## Usage

1) Computer is started, program is loaded from cassette.
2) Entering the data of patient (name, birthdate, height, weight).
3) Entering the date & time of checkup.
4) Entering the age of the isotope.
5) Program computes the optimal amount of isotope.
6) The probes are pointed to certain places of patient's body.
7) Injection of isotope.
8) For 5 minutes the program records the data from the probes.
9) Saving the data to cassette.
10) Disconnecting the gamma interface, connecting the teletype interface.
11) Priting of the protocol to teletype.

The checkup could be done by usage of other gamma camera, but it takes about 1 hour and the amount of isotope needs to be higher.

## Setup

4 gamma probes
plotter
Atari 800 XL
Atari XC 12 datasette with Turbo2000
teletype T100
interface Atari <-> gamma probes (two joystick connectors)
interface Atari <-> teletype (one joystick connector)
monitor

## Pictures

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Detail of setup. Black box at the left behind is power supply for interface.

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Overall look to gamma probes and plotter.

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Detail of setup.

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Overall look. At the left is teletype machine.

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Overall look.

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Detail of sticker on the computer. I wonder where did they got it.
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