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Chapter 1550 The Origin of a New Era (Second update, please subscribe)

Sometimes the world changes quietly.

When the "Star Wars Project" was quietly launched, ordinary people did not feel anything.

That’s not the case. When the new year comes, many people have truly felt the influence from the future world.

In the past few months, email has become a very fashionable and trendy "thing" in various universities, and this popularity on university campuses has spread to society, allowing newspapers and other news media to pay attention to this seemingly insignificant thing for the first time.

Around the New Year, newspapers are full of news about e-mail and the Internet, and people discuss these issues while reading newspapers.

Even in the subway station, while people are waiting for the subway, there will occasionally be a few people discussing the Internet, e-mail, and of course long-distance calls - with the commissioning of submarine optical cables, long-distance calls between the main island and outlying islands have suddenly gone from being the privilege of the rich to ordinary people. Although the price is still very high, it has at least become something that ordinary people can afford.

"Long distance calls, e-mail, the Internet..."

While waiting for the subway, Luo Mingjie listened to people's discussions and couldn't help but feel curious about it.

The subway slowly pulled into the station. It was around four or five in the afternoon. People were pouring into the station like a tide. The carriage was as crowded as a can of sardines, dark and dense.

At the connection between the two carriages, Luo Mingjie stood there, thinking about the news he had heard before.

"E-mail... is quite new. I can try it at the computer center later..."

Unable to resist the urge to give it a try, he soon focused on the chip again, and it has been more than two years.

In the past few days, he has been promoting the research of new low-cost processors. Although he has obtained venture capital from the "Growth Ladder Fund", the development time is too long and the angel round investment has been spent. In order to keep the company running, he not only sold all his belongings, but even gave his car to a used car dealer.

What are the consequences of taking a gamble?
It means that I have basically reached the end of my rope.

"It all depends on this one time..."

While Luo Mingjie was thinking this in his mind, he took another look at the newspaper. There was an inconspicuous small advertisement on the advertising page of the newspaper.

A strange ad appeared in the advertisement, announcing that a technology company would sell microprocessors at a local electronics hobbyist show and at a very low price. It was Luo Mingjie himself who placed the ad.

This was also the first appearance of the 6502 processor on the market - if this kind of enthusiast gathering can be considered a market.

Just a week ago, the first batch of trial-produced 6502 processors were finally manufactured.

Now, the only problem is – how to sell the processor!

In order to sell his processors, let investors see hope as soon as possible, and strive for a new round of investment, he could only spend the last sum of money on advertising, which was this advertisement in the newspaper. The advertisement lasted for five days and had only a few simple words.

The core can be summed up in one sentence: the cheapest processor ever, so stay tuned!
In order to run this advertisement, he sold his car to a used car dealership.

It's tomorrow!
Thinking of tomorrow's electronics technology enthusiasts exhibition, Luo Mingjie is full of anticipation.

Early the next morning, Luo Mingjie took his wife's car and rushed to the exhibition.

"Wife, what do you think we should do if we can't sell the chips?"

While driving, Luo Mingjie said with some concern.

Listening to her husband's words, the woman smiled and said.

"If you can't sell it, I can just support you."

His wife's answer made Luo Mingjie burst into laughter, and he nodded and said.

"That's it. You must support me when the time comes."

The woman nodded vigorously.

"Don't worry, husband."

Soon the car arrived at its destination.

Not many people attended the electronics enthusiasts' exhibition. After all, it was still the pioneering era of electronic products.

Soon, Luo Mingjie found a location - a vacant lot, and then he spread out a picnic blanket as if he was having a picnic in the park. He did this to save money, so he thought of setting up a stall to sell.

Just as we were about to set up the stall, a security guard came over to stop us:
"Okay, sir, you are not allowed to set up stalls here. There is a fee for the booths here."

Luo Mingjie didn't say anything, so his wife standing beside him asked:
“How much does it cost to rent a booth?”

Then I paid the booth fee.

Luo Mingjie was not well prepared on that day, whether in terms of manpower or material resources. In order to save money, he even planned to sell directly on the street, but when he arrived at the scene, he was notified by the organizer that it was forbidden. In the end, Chuck had no choice but to pay for a regular stall.

In order to attract manpower, he even asked his wife to join in the selling.

On this day, he was like a vegetable vendor in the market, displaying his products on a simple small table.

The 6502 chips sold did not even have decent packaging. The chips packaged in DIP-40 were squeezed in a transparent glass can like pickled cucumbers.

The worst part is that only the top layer of the chips can work properly, and the rest are just empty shells that are just for show - that's why I said that at the beginning of the article. In fact, this kind of "show-off" method is not new.

Although the stall was shabby, Luo Mingjie and his partners knew that they had a winning weapon - that was the super low price of 6502 at only 100 yuan - and they only needed this one weapon to defeat the enemy in one move.

"The cheapest microprocessor ever made."

The most eye-catching thing on this stall is the string of words written with a brush.

Although it is very simple, it is definitely very powerful. Like many electronics enthusiasts, Lei Jun has always wanted to assemble a computer at a low enough price. In fact, in the past one or two years, he has been buying computers assembled from various parts and then selling them to others.

Compared with Wang An or other brands of computers, the computers assembled by Lei Jun and his friends are about 15% cheaper than the market price.

But even so, the price of electronic computers is still extremely expensive and not everyone can afford it.

"We need a cheaper electronic computer."

In Lei Jun's view, computers must be cheap enough to enter thousands of households. However, it is too difficult to manufacture cheap computers.

Like many electronics enthusiasts, Lei Jun will not miss such trade fairs. After all, you can always see some new products at the trade fairs.

Yesterday, when he was walking around the trade fair, a string of words suddenly caught his eye.

"The cheapest microprocessor ever made."

The cheapest microprocessor?
Lei Jun walked to the stall with some doubt and looked at the microprocessor in the glass bottle.

This is too crude.

"Hello, are you interested in him?"

Seeing a customer coming, Luo Mingjie greeted him warmly.

"The 6502 processor, this is the latest product from my company. It has DRAM cells!"

"What, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight!"

Lei Bush was surprised.

"how come,,,"

The reason why he was so surprised was that the Athlon processor two years ago only had more than 18000 DRAM units.

Although two years have passed, as far as he knows, there are definitely no more than 30000 microprocessors with more than 10 DRAM units.

How could he not be shocked that this company he had never heard of actually released a similar processor?

While he was shocked, Lei Jun was more concerned about the price.

"You guys say it's the cheapest microprocessor ever made, so how much does it cost?"

According to the current market price, its price should not be less than two thousand yuan, right?
Just when this thought came to Lei Bushi's mind, he heard a price that would leave him speechless.

"100 dollars."

Luo Mingjie said:
"You can buy a 100 microprocessor for only 6502 yuan!"

What? At this moment, Lei Bushi didn't even know what to say?

He opened his eyes wide, looked at the processor in the glass bottle with an incredible look, and then said:
"Are you serious?"

The reason why he was so surprised was that the other party's offer was not a microprocessor at all, it was clearly a cabbage.

"That's why I call it the cheapest processor ever. Are you interested?"

interest!

How could I not be interested!
Looking at the microprocessors in the glass bottle, Lei Jun even had an idea to buy all of them at once.

But reason told him not to do this. After much hesitation, Lei Jun finally bought 10 6502 processors.

But what he didn't know was that Luo Mingjie only brought 20 microprocessors that day.

After Lei Jun left, another young man came here. When he learned that this processor only cost 100 yuan, the young man immediately bought all the remaining processors and took Luo Mingjie's business card, saying that he would purchase his processors in the future.

In just over an hour, all the processors were sold out.

After selling the last processor, his wife looked at Luo Mingjie who remained silent and asked:

"Honey, now that we've sold all the processors, isn't that a good start?"

Shaking his head, Luo Mingjie said:

"I don't know. I think we'll have to wait a little longer. We also need a development board to help engineers build computer prototypes and other devices. And yes, it also needs to be cheap enough."

In this way, Luo Mingjie found a new goal, and as soon as he returned to the company, he started working in this area.

That day, among those who came to buy the freshly-made 6502, there was Lei Jun who came first, and the latter was Song Mingxuan, the inventor of the arcade machine. After getting this processor, he immediately studied how to apply it to the game console.

After Lei Jun got the processor, he plunged into the laboratory, designing circuit boards and other components. At the end of the year, in the utility room under the university dormitory building, Lei Jun connected the 6502 to the main circuit board. The -volt power supply was connected, and the DRAM units woke up, and information flowed between the pins; the heart of the computer trembled for the first time, and then began to beat at a frequency of one megahertz.

This is the world's first cheap computer, and it costs only 1800 yuan!
Before this, even the cheapest electronic computer would cost at least four times more.

But on this day, everything changed!
It was also from this day that mankind truly entered the era of electronic computers, and the dawn of the era truly descended upon the world on this day.

God said, let there be light, and there was 6502!

(End of this chapter)