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Chapter 1364 The shock of black technology (second update, please subscribe)
Sometimes, some things are unimaginable.

People always imagine things that are different from what they have never seen. When someone said this in the past, Zhang Sen would sneer.

But now he was truly stunned.

Now, when Zhang Sen looked at the "metal cigarette box" in his hand, his eyes were full of astonishment.

"Is this a phone?"

This is a bit unbelievable. Looking at the phone in his hand, Zhang Sen didn't even know how to summarize the characteristics of this product. The first thing that came to his mind was - light and thin.

And it’s incredible!

There is an unreal feeling, as if you are holding a toy in your hand. This simple design, which only has a disk dialer and an antenna, has a unique and extremely avant-garde beauty.

Zhang Sen's expression caught Kochenkov's eyes and made him say with pride:
"Yes, this is our Soviet mobile phone - LM-3, which can make calls anywhere within 200 kilometers between Moscow and Petrograd."

He emphasized this point because a few years ago, the Voronezh Institute of Communications developed the first generation of Soviet car mobile phones, the "Altai". The initial communication network was established in Petrograd, and later Moscow also had the "Altai", with only one base station located on the tallest building in Moscow, with a total of 1 channels, covering a range of dozens of kilometers. Mobile phones were installed in cars and were mainly used by state leaders and senior generals.

The LM-3 uses its signal. Although it is so small, Soviet engineers have unlocked an amazing communication range of 200 kilometers through unremitting improvements in antennas and telephone terminals.

Seeing Zhang Sen, the deputy manager of Volkswagen, being so surprised, Kochenkov finally got what he wanted. After all, he had seen too many amazing things in Southeast Asia. Now, it was time to let them feel the shock of the Soviet Union.

"Yes, Mr. Zhang, in order to ensure the progress of the project, I specially applied for this phone for you. With it, we can keep in touch anytime and anywhere. It is convenient for us to communicate."

"This, this... do you Soviet people use this?"

Zhang Sen asked in astonishment:
"Yes, many Soviets use it."

In fact, this ЛК-3 was just a test product, and its unit price was as high as 600 rubles, which was not a small amount of money in the Soviet Union, enough to buy a motorcycle! Unless the Soviet government and large enterprises paid for it, there would be no way out if it only relied on the consumption capacity of ordinary Soviet people at that time.

But how can ordinary people afford it?

This kind of answer was just Kochenkov's "rhetoric", but no matter what, Zhang Sen was deeply shocked.

After all, this thing is really high-tech!
Zhang Sen asked curiously:
"So when I get to Togliatti, can I still use it?"

In response to his question, Kochenkov replied:

"Well, not yet, but in the future, when the Togliatti car factory is completed, we will definitely be able to use this phone."

Togliatti, the city where the car manufacturing plant is located, is nearly 800 kilometers away from Moscow, which is too far away even for such black technology.

At this time, in a gentle valley in the Zhiguli Mountains, there was a scene of bustling activity. Moscow had enclosed an area of ​​about six square kilometers to build an automobile city that could accommodate half a million people. The machinery was purchased from Southeast Asia at the government's expense.

The workers come from all over the vast territory, and they all dream of living in bright houses and driving cars that are said to be "more advanced than the Volga."

While workers coming from all directions were working busily, Zhou Bicheng and his colleagues from Nanyang were guiding Soviet engineers and workers in building a steel structure factory.

Steel structure factory buildings were an extremely new thing for Soviet construction engineers. After all, before this, they had only worked with factory buildings with brick walls and steel main beams. This light steel structure factory building was the first time they had come into contact with it.

Although it was their first contact, the advantage of fast construction speed still attracted these Soviet engineers. After all, this kind of factory building is now being promoted all over the world.

"The materials needed for light steel structure workshops are new color corrugated steel plates, new high-efficiency cold-bent thin-walled steel, and new hot-rolled steel - H-shaped steel, which is the flagship product of Donghai Steel Company. While the construction steel has achieved a breakthrough, its construction also requires a certain theoretical basis for calculation, and of course the most important thing is the application of electronic computers."

In front of the Soviet engineers, Zhou Bicheng explained:

"Because light steel structure workshops involve a lot of calculation problems, they need to be calculated using electronic computers."

"Computer?"

Nicholas asked:
"Are you talking about those computers that are the size of several houses and require dozens of people to maintain?"

Other engineers were even confused and had no idea what an "electronic computer" was.

“It shouldn’t be that big.”

Zhou Bicheng looked at them puzzledly and asked:
"You have never used a computer? What do you use to calculate?"

What did they use? Of course, they used various slide rules and pencils. Looking at the slide rules used by Nicholas and his team, Zhou Bicheng and the others were stunned. Because in Nanyang... they had already used electronic computers to perform these tedious calculations.

“We also have a hand-cranked computer!”

The architect said:
"We will also calculate with it."

Faced with such an answer, Zhou Bicheng and his colleagues were immediately stunned. They had no idea that in the Soviet Union, they classified the research and development of computer technology as confidential. Apart from the military, only a few research institutes and universities were qualified to access computers.

In the research and development of computer technology and many other technologies, the Soviet Union has always used a war mode of thinking - that is, high confidentiality. Unlike the United States, new technologies are constantly made public and applied to the economic field. The market demand stimulates the investment of enterprises and continuously pushes up the level of the electronics industry.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union, which regarded electronic computers as "top secrets", fell to what extent in the end? In another world, in the 50s, even the University of East China was shocked by the extent of the Soviet Union's decline in computer technology. After they arrived in the Soviet Union, they observed that the old-fashioned hand-cranked computers were still used everywhere. Moreover, only the various departments of the state used computers, and other enterprises hardly had computers. Even the famous Sukhoi Design Bureau actually used slide rules for various calculations. It made people wonder if they were still stuck in the s!

But, this is reality.

Soon, a machine appeared in the Zhiguli Engineering Command. It looked a bit like a combination of a typewriter and a small TV. When it was lifted onto the table, not only Nikolay and others came, but even the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Automobile Industry Gusev came, and even many staff members squeezed into this office.

“Is this a computer?”

"Why is it so small? Isn't it the size of several houses?"

Amidst people's intense attention, Zhou Bicheng connected the power supply to the Wang An 100 electronic computer, which they brought from Southeast Asia for engineering calculations and other work.

When the computer was turned on and the four big black words "Wang An Computer" flashed on the black screen, the inexplicable impact was indescribable.

"What does it say on this?"

Gusev asked the translator beside him, and when the translator told him that this was "Wang An's electronic brain", he was stunned.

"Electronic brain? What the hell is this?"

At this time, Gusev still didn't know what the hell this thing was, but soon, after turning on the computer and entering the command, Zhou Bicheng shouted to the side:
"Nina, don't you have a calculator there? Bring it here, let's use it to calculate."

Like many units in the Soviet Union, there are some full-time calculators, most of whom are graduates of mathematics majors, who specialize in assisting engineers in calculations. Nina, who graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Kiev University, is also the same. Upon hearing this, she came over with a pile of materials.

While Zhou Bicheng was inputting the data, Gusev asked:
“How long will it take you to complete these calculations?”

"About two days."

While answering the minister's questions, Nina's beautiful blue eyes were fixed on the screen. Although there were many Chinese characters on it, the numbers and symbols were connected.

After entering a string of numbers and symbols, she saw Zhou Bicheng tapping the keyboard with his fingers.

"clatter……"

The next moment, Nina, who was calculating silently in her mind, was completely stunned. She pointed at the screen and muttered:
"How could this be possible? How could this be calculated like this?"

"Yes, and this..."

As Zhou Bicheng input and typed, calculation results continued to come out. At this time, everyone in the office didn't even dare to breathe. They just stared at this magical machine.

The only sound left in the office was the typing of keyboards. As the calculation results continued to come out, some engineers could not control themselves and even started calculating with pens.

At this moment, Zhiguli's office seemed to have turned into the arena where horse-drawn carriages and trains raced more than a century ago, except that now it was humans competing against computers.

The outcome of such a match was inevitable.

The calculation that would have taken one or two days to complete was completed in less than an hour. When the dot matrix printer printed out the calculation results, the Soviet engineers holding slide rules and pencils all looked at the long piece of paper in astonishment.

“Is the result correct?”

Gusev no longer needed to ask. Just by looking at the expressions of these people, he knew. Now he finally understood what an electronic brain was!

It can perform calculations like the human brain, only faster!

(End of this chapter)