Re: [telecom] History trans-Atlantic cable

I was working at Bell Labs back then; I remember some of what we heard from the group.

- The Teredo worm is the enemy of submerged cable!

- They were trying to extrapolate the lifetime of tubes [hoping for 20 yrs] on the basis of less than a year of data. This was JUST before transistors appeared, let alone became reliable.

---- Julian Thomas -

"I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!"

-Charles Babbage

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I thought the Teredo worm was the reason ships had to cover their bottoms with copper. I'm surprised that the worms could range to the depths of undersea cables.

Bill Horne Moderator

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Posted 5 years ago by Julian Thomas in General Telecommunications Forum

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