I took my time machine and traveled back to radiology technology last century.

at Bits & Pretzels’ Healthtech conference in June 2023 in Munich, Germany.
By now, pretty much all clinics and radiology practices in Europe are equipped with a digital image and findings management system, butlooking back at the equipment 30 years ago really feels like time travel.
In the 1990s, diagnostic consoles looked like a command bridge in a spaceship and 21-inch tube monitors could not be lifted by one person alone. Long-term archives were mostly MOD (magneto- optical discs) or CD (compact disc) jukeboxes.
Compared to film archive shelves they were small, but big ponderous dinosaurs with a fraction of storage capacity compared to today’s SSD flash storage. And the cloud didn’t even exist back then.
What PACS used to look like




