Courtyard Houses: The Great Masters of a Nation Hidden Within

Another week of busy work.

On Friday evening, Gao Jianguo sat down at home and began to work on the tasks at hand.

With more and more work to do, it's easy to get lost if you don't organize your thoughts.

There was a piece of paper on the table, and he was scribbling on it with a pen in his mouth.

More and more lines of text gradually appeared on the paper.

Thermocouple: The electrodes are almost finished and are being tested. The protective tube is still waiting for news from 3Z-591. The secondary meter head has been welded and installed.

[No delays] [Handled quickly]

ESR: Still studying.

[Proceed forward normally] [No rush]

3z-591: I've finished testing the materials I prepared myself, and completed the heat treatment. I've already handed them over to Fang Xiufang and Liu Weiguo to run performance verification. I've also submitted the three-level review to Lao Chen.

[Proceeding forward normally] [Handling this urgently]

Transistor computer system: Not a single word of the explanatory material has been copied, the input and output devices are still a mystery, and the most basic operating environment is nowhere to be found.

A matter of life and death

Special materials: I tested it along with 3z-591, and the heat treatment is also done. I have to test the performance myself.

[Arching forward normally] [Can wait]

The special material in his hand was an alloy extracted from the GJB standard document he had previously drawn out.

Gao Jianguo stared at the paper, mentally going through each scene of the movie.

There's no need to worry about the thermocouples; just proceed step by step. There are enough people on the ground, so he doesn't need to ask around.

Regarding the 3Z-591 high-temperature alloy, apart from that one thing that needs to be kept secret, everything else is going quite smoothly.

Gao Jianguo was well aware of the situation regarding Tibet.

Fang Jie and Xiao Liu have probably figured out some of the tricks from the trial process. Plus, he gave them a heads-up beforehand, so now they're just working quietly without asking any questions.

The progress on special materials is also going quite smoothly, and this thing is not in a rush.

Even if there are problems with the work done this time, as long as either the thermocouple or 3z-591 is not finished, we can start another furnace at any time.

They've already devoured almost half of ESR's work.

He didn't take this matter to heart at all.

We have to wait until the thermocouples and 3z-591 are all sorted out, and the positive developments are clear, before we can have a reason to push forward.

There is plenty of time.

The book "Principles and Latest Developments of Electroslag Remelting (ESR) Technology" has a long timeline for the technology. Being a few days earlier or later does not affect whether the technology is advanced or not.

Working on transistor computer systems was truly a life-threatening job.

Copying books can be done anytime, but finding the input and output devices requires searching around.

Without a solution for this, we can't get the most basic operating environment set up.

Gao Jianguo made the decision: on Sunday, they would visit the trust store, the supply and marketing cooperative, and the hardware store.

I actually have a somewhat formed idea in my mind, but I need to see if I can find the materials I need first.

If you can't find it, think of another way.

Having finalized his little plan, Gao Jianguo pulled out paper, pen, and drawing tools and began copying the CPU's instruction manual.

The first things I copied were the architecture and instruction set.

Once he's mastered these two areas, he'll be able to set up the basic working environment.

Ultimately, he was very familiar with the 8086 and 8088 systems from his past life, but he hadn't learned about 8008, so there were still some differences in the intricacies.

This is perfect; I can copy some books, then do some programming, which will give my mind a break while I'm working.

Who can stand always squatting in the same position doing the same thing?