Data Communication,(Cabling) Where it started

[marzskie]

We tend to think of digital communication as a new idea but in 1844 a man name Samuel Morse sent a message 37 miles from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, using his new invention ‘The Telegraph’. This may seem a far cry from today's computer networks but the principals remain the same. Morse code is type of binary system which uses dots and dashes in different sequences to represent letters and numbers, modern data networks use 1’s and 0’s to achieve the same result. The big difference is, that while the telegraph operators of the mid 19th Century could perhaps transmit 4 or 5 dots and dashes per second, computers now communicate at speeds of up to 1 Giga bit, or to put it another way, 1,000,000,000 separate 1’s and 0’s every second.

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[Charles]

Whew, that was a huge difference in data transmission, Marzskie! Great info indeed. I know that some of our newly signed up members are very much akin into Data Communications. I guess this info feeds them right. Thanks for the contribution. Looking forward to see more of your posts.