Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 179 Digital General Computer Acceptance Successful (Subscription Request)
After the National Day, Yang Ning returned to his normal work.

Because Mr. Qian had already started training aerospace talents in advance, and with the two large rockets given by Big Brother as a reference, Mr. Qian has now begun to lead his students to try to disassemble the two missiles themselves.

Every time a component is disassembled, the measured data and structural drawings will be sent to the data processing institute. After being processed by Yang Ning, these data and structural drawings will be converted into technical parameters and combination drawings and sent back to the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

These technical parameters and structural drawings, after being combined with aerodynamic analysis and annotations by Mr. Qian, became our first systematic textbook in the field of rockets and missiles.

That day, Yang Ning was busy processing the drawings sent by Mr. Qian when Dean Guo came to his office.

After entering the door, the same old routine applies: finding tea, pouring water, and tasting tea.

After finishing, he looked at Yang Ning and said to him with a heartbroken face.

"Oh my goodness, I didn't know until I calculated it. It's really shocking. It turns out that our weapons and equipment can be exchanged for so much foreign exchange. In the past..."

I remember that I had to beg everyone for help in order to prepare for the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and finally I was able to apply for some funding to set up the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Later, he was busy with research funding, and recently, in order to host the University of Science and Technology of China, he reduced his benefits again and again. He even got to the point where if he wanted to drink some good tea, he had to go to Yang Ning to get some.

Unexpectedly, just one arms sale to a foreign country earned more than 100 million US dollars in foreign exchange, and this was sold at half the price to the sovereign country of the canal.

If you think about it carefully, how much of our wealth have we given away to our comrades in the south over the years?
This is how it is. In the past, our products were not good, so we could only support others for free. Even so, it seemed that few people were willing to take them.

So we have no concrete idea of how much the things we give away are worth.

After this arms sale, we have a more concrete concept when compared with the past.

Wow, even if our previous stuff wasn’t good, it seems like the things we gave away are worth a lot of money now.

This made some comrades think that they could never do this again, after all, their own families were not easy either!
As for our comrades in the south, those old equipment will still be provided free of charge.

Otherwise, if they can't hold on any longer, won't we have to take action ourselves? Otherwise, the Eagle Sauce will come to our doorstep again.

As for the latest equipment we produce ourselves that they want in the future, we can allow them to owe it first and pay it back slowly when they have the ability to do so. Isn’t that how we got through it before?

As for other countries, it is impossible for them to continue to be free, not in this lifetime.

At most I’ll sell it cheaper later!
"Okay, given the performance of our weapons and equipment in the past, even if we gave them away for free, few people would want them. If we really wanted to exchange them for foreign currency, we wouldn't get much money back. There's no need to feel bad about it!"

Yang Ning looked at Dean Guo's stingy appearance, and at this moment it was as if he saw a middle-aged man who lost a dime, and a smile appeared on his face.

"That's true, but we spent money to buy those equipment from Big Brother!"

Although what Yang Ning said made sense, Dean Guo still looked reluctant.

The equipment we previously supported to the South was the surplus equipment after our large-scale military reduction.

Although those equipments may seem outdated now, they were the best equipment for us at that time.

It seems that we only paid half price for those equipments, but we still owed Big Brother more than 4 billion yuan to buy them on credit.

"Okay, instead of worrying about these, it's better to think about the future."

"If the equipment we sold performs well on the battlefield, we will have the opportunity to earn foreign exchange in the future."

Yang Ning could only comfort him in this way. What else could he do? Could he get back the equipment that had already been sent out?
"Okay, if you're free, I'm still busy. Why don't you go for a stroll somewhere else?" President Guo only serves as an external business card for the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Apart from cultural and historical aspects, he can't help much with scientific research. So except for occasional visits, he is busy with other things all the time.

"Tsk! Do you really think I'm so precious?" Dean Guo looked at Yang Ning with disdain. Then, regardless of whether Yang Ning agreed or not, he poured out half of the bag of tea, put it carefully in his arms, and walked outside with the teacup.

"By the way, today the computer research institute's newly developed computer is undergoing final testing. Do you want to go over and take a look?"

When he reached the door, Dean Guo suddenly remembered something and turned to Yang Ning and asked.

"I won't go. I have a lot of things to do here!"

Yang Ning smiled and shook his head, rejecting Dean Guo's invitation.

This computer is mainly the result of the work of Professor Xia and his colleagues, so he won't try to steal the limelight.

"Whatever! I'm just letting you know about this."

Dean Guo guessed this would happen. If the Institute of Computer Science was not located in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean Guo probably would not have mentioned this matter to Yang Ning.

"Why, Yang Ning didn't come?" When Dean Guo arrived at the Computer Research Institute, Professor Hua and Professor Xia, who had been waiting there for a long time, hurried forward and asked.

Dean Guo shook his head and explained for Yang Ning: "Yang Ning has something else to do and can't leave, so we don't have to worry about him."

Soon, with the arrival of the leaders, the computer entered its final acceptance stage.

After all, this is the first digital general-purpose computer we designed. As Yang Ning plays an increasingly important role, we pay more attention to the development of computer technology compared to the original history.

Therefore, the higher-ups attach great importance to the acceptance of this computer that we independently developed.

As the operator turns on the power and waits for the computer to completely start up, he enters some specific programs on the console, and the output device next to it begins to spit out long paper tapes.

Professor Xia was waiting on the side, holding the paper tape and looking at the data on it.

Because of Yang Ning's participation, this computer adopted some new technologies, so the performance of this computer is much better than the historical 107 computer.

"The computing speed is 3,000 times per second."

As the results of the first test on computing speed came out, there was a burst of exclamations at the scene.

"If I remember correctly, the computing speed of the 103 machine we copied from Big Brother is not that fast, right?" After hearing the first test result, the leader asked Mr. Hua beside him with a smile.

"Indeed, the computing speed of machine 103 is only 1800 times per second, which is much worse than ours." Mr. Hua also smiled at this time.

Because there was no time pressure, this computer ran smoothly for an hour, almost twice the stable running time of machine 103, and then Professor Xia ordered it to be shut down and restarted.

If this is changed to machine 103 or 104, then the previous data will be lost and the calculation will need to be started again.

However, after shutting down and restarting this computer, it was found that the previous data and programs were still running, which is much better than machines 103 and 104.

You have to know that computers at that time were very power-consuming. Computers had to run all the time and could not be turned off, so the amount of electricity consumed was really huge.

As the test ended, there was warm applause from the audience.

(End of this chapter)