Amaya Toman In our series on major technology events, we often mention phone calls. Today we commemorate the day when the first two-way call was made between the cities of Boston and Cambridge. But we also remember the end of the Hayes company, which was once one of the most important manufacturers of modems overseas.
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First two-way long-distance call (1876)
On October 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson introduced the first two-way telephone call, conducted over outdoor wires. The call was made between the cities of Boston and Cambridge. The distance between the two cities was approximately three kilometers. Alexander G. Bell succeeded in transmitting a tone electrically for the first time on June 2, 1875, and in March 1876 he tried the telephone for the first time with his laboratory assistant.
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The End of Hayes (1998)
October 9, 1998 was a very sad day for Hayes - the company's stock dropped to practically zero and the company had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. Hayes Microcomputer Products was in the business of making modems. Among its most famous products was the Smartmodem. The Hayes company dominated the overseas modem market from the early 1999s, and a little later US Robotics and Telebit began to compete with it. But in the XNUMXs, relatively cheap and powerful modems began to appear, and Hayes could no longer keep up with the new trends in this field. In XNUMX, the company was finally liquidated.
