Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 5 Knowledge is Free

"Just leave it here, thank you, you can go now."

Evelyn's words brought Ethan back to his senses.

Looking at the slender fingers that kept tapping the table, he understood and placed the tray in front of the other party, and said with a smile: “Oh Evelin, is there no possibility of easing the relationship between us?”

"No."

Evelin answered decisively, taking a sip of the clam soup, the salty and fresh taste made her squint her eyes.

"Ethan, you disappoint me, you know that?"

As she stirred the soup, she said, "Although our family relies on farming for a living and our annual income is determined by God, and we still suffer losses when encountering extreme weather, this does not mean that our family is short of money. Thomas has accumulated a lot of wealth through years of business."

"Besides, our family is different from other foster families, right? Linda is your aunt and Thomas is your uncle. When they couldn't have children, they treated you as their own son. They never thought of kicking you out of the family after you became an adult."

"Without any financial pressure, I really don't know why you are so anxious to make money? Don't you know that time is precious? Don't you know that Thomas' biggest wish is for us to leave the orchard? Although he has always said that if we don't want to go out, we can go with him to watch the orchard! But at the same time, when we wanted to pay a teacher to tutor us for the SAT, he paid without even thinking about it!"

"Ding Dong!"

At this point, Evelyn threw the spoon into the bowl with force.

The metal hit the ceramic, making a crisp sound.

The nostalgic words made Ethan drag a stool from the side and sit next to Evelyn.

He reached out to help her break the crab legs of the treasure crab, and said at the same time: "Evelyn, have you heard this saying? Age is not the real criterion for distinguishing whether a person is mature. If you want to know whether a person is mature, you have to look at what his mind is like."

"I was impetuous and self-centered before, which brought you a lot of disappointment and regret. I apologize for this. I don't ask you to forgive me, but I want you to know that now I can understand your good intentions."

Evelin turned her head, frowned slightly, and stared at Ethan in a daze.

Ethan handed the broken crab legs to her.

That handsome face filled with a smile made Evelin’s pupils shrink.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Evelyn finally took the crab legs from Ethan.

While tasting it, she also asked in an unclear tone: "How much did Mi Luohua compensate you?"

"Seven months plus a week's pay."

"That's more than two thousand?"

Evelin did a simple calculation and asked, “What are your plans for the next step?”

"I know I still have a chance to go to school, but my SATs are expired."

Although there is no clear validity period for SAT scores, most universities require applicants to provide scores within two years. Ethan's scores were obtained three years ago, so many schools no longer recognize them.

"You can take the test again. I can teach you if there's anything you've forgotten," Evelyn said, "if you're willing."

"Thank you." Ethan nodded and thanked her. At the same time, he helped Evelyn break open the crab shell. "Although I don't want to make you angry, I still want to say that reading is not very helpful to me now."

"Oh...Sh..."

Evelin immediately put down her hands and cast a disappointed look at Ethan.

Before she could curse, Ethan smiled and said, "Okay! Evelyn! I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious. Because I said this for a reason."

"The field I'm interested in now, like you, is engineering. But engineering is now subject to a lot of... um... how should I put it? Is it discrimination? Or is it looked down upon? I don't know what word to use here, but I know how to describe it..."

"Let me give you an example. For example, at the company I just worked at, whenever college students majoring in engineering came to apply for a job, they would basically write on their resumes that they were familiar with the magazine Popular Electronics and had successfully copied many sets of electronic equipment based on the content therein."

"I think you have more say on this than I do, right?"

Ethan smiled at Evelyn.

At the same time, his finger pointed at the magazine Evelin had just read.

Those calm words were like a pair of invisible hands, quietly soothing the anger on the girl's face.

And that confident smile was like a mist, making the girl's brown eyes bloom with inquiry, like a magnifying glass, trying to see the boy clearly.

After a moment, the girl, who didn't notice anything unusual, sighed, smiled and shook her head.

Then he picked up the California roll and started eating it.

This situation also made Ethan snap his fingers in his heart.

Because he knew that his first step was right.

In fact, after learning that he had traveled to America in 1975, Ethan began to think about how to get a piece of the pie in the field of technology.

At the beginning, he also thought about going to university to systematically learn science knowledge and hands-on skills.

But after he prepared for this and collected information in this regard, he discovered a shocking fact.

In this era, America’s knowledge and future are different and seem to be not limited to schools!

When the original owner of this body works at Milova, they start recruiting electronic engineers every year. The first thing they look at is not the academic qualifications of the job seekers, but whether there is a description of the "Popular Electronics" magazine in the resume. If there is, they will let him come for an interview. If not, they will look at his academic qualifications.

Such a strange situation made Ethan a little surprised. Because he couldn't understand why the credibility of the diplomas from various universities was not as high as that of a magazine?

But when he got a copy of Popular Electronics and flipped through it...

The content above was enough to make him lose his mind!

Because that magazine contained instructions for making a three-transistor portable radio!
Although it is only three pages, it shows the reader how to use two 2N170 NPN transistors and one 2N107 PNP transistor to build a radio kit!
As long as readers follow the circuit diagram above, they can make a radio that can receive all short-wire antennas in one night!
Just looking at this is outrageous.

And what’s even more outrageous is yet to come.

If you spend a little more time, you can also use alligator clips to make a booster to receive broadcast signals from farther away.

For the reception of medium wave signals, you can also use tools such as magnetic rings, ferrite antennas, etc. to adjust and search...

When Ethan finished reading the magazine, he was instantly transformed into an emoticon package of later generations.

Subway, old man, look at your phone.

What the hell is this?

At a certain moment, Ethan even doubted whether the place where he landed was America!

As a guy who has studied, lived and worked in America, he knows better than anyone how valuable professional books are in America!
Otherwise, Amazon would not have been able to start its business by selling books.

When evil capitalists attach a high value to knowledge, what they want to do is to block the upward channels for the masses.

Under such circumstances, how could America in the 1950s and 1960s have such a good teaching atmosphere?
Can knowledge about radio and other subjects be published in popular magazines?
This is simply outrageous, it's even more outrageous than opening the door for his father!
really!

The lighthouse before the Eastern Earthquake was the real lighthouse!
Just as Ethan was delighted with his discovery and was about to copy some things from the magazine, he discovered that many things could not be copied just because he wanted to.

For example, he couldn't tell the difference between an NPN transistor and a PNP transistor.

Born without a science background, he had completely forgotten all the high school physics before traveling through time, and he had no idea what the current generation process of IB and IC was in the field of physics, let alone what a superheterodyne circuit was.

When Ethan realized that he might not be able to copy the answers correctly, he really regretted that he studied finance in his previous life.

The biggest use of this thing is to talk about science with liberal arts students, and talk about liberal arts with science students——

Chatting!
He was even more puzzled as to why he didn't have a cheat code like ChatGPT4.0.

Fortunately, there was a guy studying engineering next to the original owner of the body.

Ethan's sister, Evelyn, is a top student majoring in computer science at Stanford School of Engineering.

What’s more, she was interested in radio when she was a teenager.

To this end, Thomas not only subscribed to Popular Electronics for her in 1966, but also spent a lot of money to fill in the previously published but unsubscribed magazines for his daughter. When Evelyn wanted to get her hands dirty, he allowed her to dismantle the TV at home and assemble it into a projector.

When this fact appeared, Ethan still taught himself! He immediately focused his attention on the other party!
And judging from the current situation, this girl is not as violent as she appears to be.

After she finished eating a California roll, took a few sips of clam soup, and ate the brain of the Dungeness crab, Evelyn wiped her mouth.

"Ethan."

"uh-huh?"

"I know what you're thinking."

"What?"

"You must have some ideas that involve knowledge of electronics and computers. Since you don't know how to do it, you want me to do it for you."

Evelin said affirmatively, “Don’t try to deny it. We’ve known each other for almost twenty years. Do you remember when we were in high school? You asked me to make you a walkie-talkie as big as a palm, just so you could hide it and scare people!”

Ethan stopped pretending when the situation arose: "As soon as you stick your butt out, I know what shit you are doing."

He spread his hands and said, "Yeah~ It seems that nothing can be hidden from you."

“Humph!” Ethan’s admission earned him Evelin’s eye roll.

After staring at the boy who grew up with her for a few seconds, she sighed, "Okay, I surrender. I really can't argue with you! Your temper is like a bull. Only God knows how to make you change your ways! So... tell me your ideas. What do you want to do this time? I'll do it for you."

"Oh, this is really great! Evelyn, I love you!" Evelyn's concession made Ethan grin.

He came here for this purpose and turned his gaze to start searching.

When he saw a copy of Popular Electronics on Evelyn's bookshelf with the date January 1975 printed on it, he immediately pulled it out.

After discovering a square machine with the code name of Altair 8800 on the upper left corner, he pointed at the other person and said with a smile: "Can you make something like this?"

"???"

Such a question made Evelin frown.

The next second, after catching the smile in Ethan's pupils, she realized that she was being fooled, so she picked up the crab shell and threw it hard at the boy.

"Oh Ethan! You did this on purpose, didn't you? Get out of here!"

Note: ① The influence of Popular Electronics in reality is even more exaggerated than what I wrote. Almost all engineers who came out in the 1960s, 5s, s and s subscribed to it, including Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, and David Gross, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. The radio production mentioned in the article is the issue in May .

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