Amaya Toman Nowadays, we are mostly used to wireless data transmission, but earlier communication took place in a diametrically different way. A very important invention was, for example, the telegraph - in today's part of our "historical" series, we will remember the sending of the first public message by an underwater telegraph cable, but we will also talk about the last turning on of the MIT TX-0 computer.
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Underwater Telegraph (1851)
On November 13, 1851, the first public administration was sent via an undersea telegraph cable under the English Channel between Dover, England, and Calais, France. Historically, the first attempt at an underwater telegraph connection between Europe and Great Britain took place already in the summer of 1850. At that time, it was still a simple copper cable, insulated with gutta-percha, while the November connection was made using a more thoroughly insulated cable.
Goodbye, TX-0 (1983)
On November 13, 1983, the MIT TX-0 computer was put into operation for the third time - and also for the last time. The event took place at the Computer Museum in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and said computer was operated by John McKenzie and MIT professor Jack Dennis. The MIT TX-0 computer was assembled at Lincoln Laboratories in 1955. It was later dismantled and moved to MIT, where it was declared obsolete after two years. The MIT TX-0 is today considered one of the first transistor computers.
