Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 200 Small transistor computer developed successfully (subscribe)

"That means we must build our own television industry now, otherwise it will affect the production and promotion of our computers?"

After listening to Professor Xia's report, the leader looked at the drawings handed over by Professor Xia and asked thoughtfully.

"Yes, the computer we designed no longer uses paper tape output like previous computers. The input device has a specially designed keyboard, and the output device has a monitor modified from a television. So if we want to promote transistor computers, we must have our own computer."

After obtaining Yang Ning's TV design drawings, Professor Xia and his team designed the computer monitor drawings based on these drawings in just a few days.

"How is the transistor computer project going now?"

After listening to Professor Xia’s explanation, the leader thought for a while and did not give a clear answer. Instead, he asked me about the progress of the transistor computer project.

"We have now started to produce parts according to the previous technical drawings. If nothing unexpected happens, the first minicomputer will be produced next week."

Professor Xia understood the leadership’s difficulties: adding a brand new industry, which was not one we urgently needed, and the leadership would not dare to make a decision so easily before seeing the results.

"Well, let me know when you test the machine. I will go and see the computer in person. If it can really achieve the performance you designed, I will apply to the higher authorities to establish our own TV production."

It’s no wonder that the leaders are so cautious now. Although our economic situation has improved a lot now, we also have a lot of projects to carry out.

Moreover, many of our projects are independently developed, and these independently developed projects cannot get assistance and technical support from Big Brother.

So now our economy is still relatively tight. If leaders want to launch a new industry, they must be extremely cautious, for fear of wasting our precious material and financial resources.

"How is it? Did the leader agree?" When Professor Xia returned to the Computer Research Institute, Mr. Hua, who was inspecting transistor computers there, came forward and asked.

"No, the boss said that he would make a decision after seeing the situation of the computer we are assembling now."

Professor Xia shook his head helplessly and said with some disappointment.

"Haha, it doesn't matter. We have to believe that the computer we designed will be able to meet the design requirements." After hearing Professor Xia's words, Mr. Hua smiled and comforted him.

"Besides, even if we have solved the display problem now, if we can't solve the transistor problem, our transistor computers will not be popularized."

"Yes, we should make this computer first. When the leaders see its advantages, they will definitely support its production." Professor Xia also said with a smile.

In the following period, with the efforts of the transistor computer project team, the world's first all-transistor computer was finally successfully developed at the Computer Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On that day, all the researchers involved in the transistor computer research project gathered in front of several half-person-high boxes, watching Yang Ning sitting in front of a Big Brother "Ruby" TV, constantly typing on a typewriter in front of the monitor.

As Yang Ning's fingers flew quickly, character codes appeared on the TV screen.

"Hiss~ You know what, although I don't understand Yang Ning's intention, it looks so high-class."

At this moment, Mr. Hua was concentrating on watching the characters jumping on the screen, and he was completely confused and couldn't help but sigh.

Then he looked at Professor Xia and asked, "Can you see what Yang Ning is doing?" He thought Professor Xia didn't understand and just asked casually, but he didn't expect Professor Xia to nod and say, "I understand a little bit. This should be a computer language program."

"It has been introduced in the design drawings before, but I don't know if it is easy to use?"

Well, although Mr. Hua had seen the computer drawings designed by Yang Ning before, he was not an expert in this field after all, so he didn't pay special attention to them.

As Yang Ning typed the last character, the characters on the display flashed quickly for a few times, and then two words appeared: "Hello world!"

Although they were just two ordinary words on the simple screen, Yang Ning couldn't help but be distracted when he saw them.

It wasn’t easy at all. After seven years in this space and time, I finally got the computer to run a complete program.

This made Yang Ning, who was used to dealing with computers and mobile phones in his previous life, couldn't help but feel like crying.

"Yang Ning, how is it?" Seeing Yang Ning stop what he was doing and not say anything, Professor Xia and Mr. Hua couldn't help but step forward and ask.

At this moment, neither of them realized what the above two words meant.

After hearing what the two said, Yang Ning did not explain too much. He ran this program just to satisfy the feelings of his previous life.

He silently deleted the words on the screen, looked at Professor Xia and smiled, "No problem at all. I just added a complete and convenient input and output, command system, and usage environment to this computer. It is much easier to use than the previous computer."

"How about it, do you want to try it?"

"Let me try?" Professor Xia stepped forward first and said to a student beside him, "Go get the observation data from the past few days sent by the Maritime Safety Administration."

"Yes!"

The student replied and ran out quickly.

After a while, the student came back with a large stack of data: "It's all here."

"Yes!" Professor Xia nodded, and then under the guidance of Yang Ning, he began to input the data in the materials into the computer.

The computer automatically ran according to the instructions Yang Ning had entered before, and in less than a minute, all the data was processed.

"So fast!" Mr. Hua exclaimed in surprise after seeing it, and then asked the student beside him: "How long did it take to run this data on the previous computer?"

"Sixteen minutes!" Before the student could speak, Professor Xia looked at the data on the screen and said with emotion.

"Doesn't that mean that this computer is more than ten times faster than the general-purpose computer we studied before?" Mr. Hua looked at the data on the screen with a shocked look on his face.

"Not that fast. I just added some calculation formula instructions to this computer. This way, I don't have to input the calculation formula repeatedly, so it's much faster."

(End of this chapter)