Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 194 Stunning Near East (Subscription Request)

"...Leader, this is what Comrade Yang Ning called a transistor computer. According to him, this minicomputer can be placed in an office of about 2 square meters. It not only runs stably, but also has a maximum computing speed of times per second."

"As for the mainframe, it's about the same size as the small vacuum tube general-purpose computer we developed before, and its speed can reach 300,000 times per second!"

Mr. Hua hurried to Director Nie's office with the design drawings given by Yang Ning. After he finished his report, Director Nie looked at the transistor design sketch in his hand and the introduction to the transistor computer on it, pondered for a while, looked up at Mr. Hua and asked.

"Mr. Hua, how confident are you about transistor computers?"

Director Nie was afraid that asking this question would put pressure on Mr. Hua, so he hurriedly explained: "You know, this is the only time we are more confident of getting the latest transistors from Eagle Sauce. It will be difficult to buy them in the future. Moreover, these transistors are not cheap. The agents charge us twenty dollars for a triode and ten dollars for a diode. Big Brother does have cheaper transistors, but unfortunately the technology is not up to standard and cannot be used in computers."

“Comrades in the Foreign Trade Department are also in a difficult situation!”

After listening to Director Nie's words, Elder Hua smiled and said, "If Comrade Yang Ning was not sure, he would not have proposed it. We don't understand transistor computers yet, but judging from Comrade Yang Ning's past experience, he should be quite sure."

Then Mr. Hua asked, "How many transistors can those agents get?"

"One hundred thousand, forty thousand diodes, sixty thousand transistors."

After Director Nie finished speaking, he looked at Mr. Hua and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Take down all 100,000 of them. According to the logic structure designed by Comrade Yang Ning, these transistors can just build a mainframe and two minicomputers."

"If the computer we develop achieves the expected results, we will have to strengthen our research on transistors in the future. After all, we can't always rely on imports from outside."

"Although this will require a lot of foreign exchange, it is also an attempt for us in computer science, and I think it is worth a try."

Mr. Hua is not one of those experts who are deeply influenced by Big Brother, and he is not opposed to transistors. He believes that since the Eagle Sauce has already shouted the slogan of transistor computers, it means that this is also an aspect of computer development. As for whether this path is right, we have to try it first to know.

After hearing what Mr. Hua said, Director Nie stood up and walked a few steps, then looked at Mr. Hua. When he saw the firm look in Mr. Hua's eyes, he finally said, "Okay, then this time, let us take a trip for other countries in the field of transistor electronic computer technology. We can't always follow behind them!"

"Thank you, leader. Please rest assured that our computer research institute will never let the organization down!"

When Mr. Hua heard that Director Nie agreed to his suggestion, he immediately made the promise excitedly.

After the transistor computer project was approved, in addition to the work on the heat-resistant coating with Professor Ye, Yang Ning also discussed the design of transistor computers with Professor Xia and others.

In terms of transistor computers, as long as Yang Ning was not asked to produce transistors, he was decades ahead of the times in terms of circuit layout, storage device design, and computer language editing.

"Yang Ning, are you sure this is a computer case?"

Looking at the detailed drawings of the transistor computer that he and Yang Ning had worked out over the past few days, Professor Xia was surprised and asked in disbelief.

“Yes, this is a transistor computer!”

Yang Ning looked at Professor Xia at this time and nodded with a smile. There was no way, anyone who saw the design drawings on the drawings would not associate them with the huge computers nowadays.

"However, in terms of input and output devices, signal conversion is required. Professor Xia and you will need to continue your research in this area."

Yang Ning said to Professor Xia embarrassedly.

This is not Yang Ning's deliberate shirking or being modest. Mr. Ye has already developed the thermal insulation coating for missile engines. Yang Ning's work focus will be on the missile project in the future. He really cannot spare the time for the Computer Research Institute in the future.

"Haha~" Professor Xia smiled nonchalantly after hearing Yang Ning's words: "I know you are a busy man, so leave the rest of the research to us."

You have already solved the major problems of circuit board logic design, storage devices and assembly language. If we can't solve the remaining problems, we might as well just go home and hug our children."

"It's all thanks to everyone. Without your help over this period of time, we would not have been able to solve these problems so quickly." Yang Ning said quickly after hearing Professor Xia's words.

Time has unknowingly come to November.

At this time, while we were busy with construction, the fighting in the Near East was already in full swing.

At the end of October, the Second Middle East War broke out as expected. Unlike in history, the canal sovereign state was stunned by the squid's ground forces from the very beginning due to the lack of fighter jets and armored equipment, and lost the Sinai Peninsula in just a few days.

This time and space purchased some fighter planes and tanks from a certain Eastern power in advance, and equipped with elite 56 assault troops. Although the military quality of the soldiers of the canal sovereign country was not as good as that of the squid, at the beginning of the war, they relied on the numerical advantage of the army and these imported equipment to fight the squid back and forth.

This shocked the countries that were paying attention to the war.

Especially on the Big Brother's side, Big Brother originally supported the canal sovereign country from the beginning, and stuffed all kinds of equipment into the canal sovereign country like it was free of charge. However, due to various reasons, there were delays. When the war broke out, not to mention the support equipment, even their trainees were still at Big Brother's house and had not returned.

Originally, Big Brother was preparing to threaten the canal’s sovereign country after its defeat, but he didn’t expect that the canal’s sovereign country would actually hold on!

"Comrade Karoslav, is this the abnormality of our little brother from the south that you reported earlier?"

In an office somewhere in Moscow, a group of Big Brother's leaders gathered together to discuss this war that caught everyone off guard but had a surprising outcome.

General Karoslav, who had previously planned the operation against our scientific researchers, was among them.

"Yes, this is the anomaly I reported before. I found that after the brothers in the south absorbed our technology, not only did they digest it unexpectedly fast, but the performance of the equipment they produced was better than what we produced ourselves."

"For example, on the battlefield today, they imitated our T54 tanks. The canal sovereign state only relied on an armored brigade equipped with more than 100 of these tanks to resist the attack of the squid's armored division equipped with Gallic light tanks."

Not only that, the so-called J-17 jet fighter they produced by imitating our MiG- actually had a clear advantage in battles with fighters from other countries. "

"Comrades, can the equipment we produce gain such a big advantage in a battle with other countries' equal equipment? I have my doubts about it."

(End of this chapter)