Era: I have a two-world door

Chapter 655, The Configuration of a Mainframe Computer

Wang Qingsong did not return to Hong Kong Island, but went directly back to Beijing.

"Is work alright?"

When he got home, Liang Chunxiao was holding her child. She saw him and asked him a question.

Wang Qingsong took the child, kissed him, and smiled, "Things are alright at work. The call to action has been issued, and the children have started to go back one after another."

Of course, the child has gone back, but these matters are now considered closed.

Once these people have exhausted their usefulness, new people will take their place.

Liang Chunxiao complained as she watched his actions, "Your face is so cold, don't let the child get cold, or he'll get diarrhea."

Wang Qingsong smiled upon hearing this: "Don't worry, the child is wrapped up so tightly!"

The house was very warm because after buying the house, he secretly had someone come and install a heated wall.

It does use a lot of coal.

But with him around, none of this is a problem.

"Come on, let's listen to your aunt play a lullaby, so you can develop a bit more artistic talent in the future!"

She took the child and went next door.

With things in chaos outside, he mostly keeps Xiaomai at home with Liang Chunxiao, and she practices the piano whenever she has free time.

After all, there's nothing wrong with wheat right now.

When Xiaomai saw him coming, she didn't stop and continued pulling him.

Because I was told that once before.

As Wang Qingsong listened to Xiaomai playing the violin, he was pondering something in his mind.

That's what will happen to this girl in the future.

If we calculate based on age, when classes resumed in 68, she had just graduated from sixth grade, although she hadn't learned much.

At that time, the students from the 66th, 67th, and 68th graduating classes will all be in the first year of junior high school together.

Two years of junior high school and two years of senior high school; even if Xiaomai graduates from senior high school, it will only be 72.

According to the principle, those under 17 years old can postpone their assignment for a year, but they will still have to go to the countryside in 73.

He has several plans.

One type is the worker-peasant-soldier university.

Although most of the worker-peasant-soldier college students came from workers, peasants, and soldiers, high schools actually had a portion of the places available.

If we could let her study at a worker-peasant-soldier university, that would be great.

Even though worker-peasant-soldier college students were not well received after the reform and opening up.

The second option is to enter a factory after graduating from high school.

His current factory is naturally one of them.

He got the deputy director position partly because he wanted a more stable life in the world, and partly because he was thinking about making plans for his younger sister.

Of course, he also planned to do the same for Er Ya and the others.

If all else fails, go to the countryside.

By 73, apart from those who volunteered to go to remote areas, the places they went to were mostly rural areas in Beijing, and they rarely went to remote areas.

Anyway, it's all fine.

Wang Qingsong had two other plans in mind when he had the other person practice the violin in this way.

One option is to work in a piano factory, where you can come into contact with many musical instruments.

Another option is to go to the Children's Palace.

Back then, musicians from good families were extremely rare, so there was still some hope.

Being a teacher is easy.

After finishing her piece, Xiaomai put down her violin and said with a smile, "Yueyue, Auntie wants a hug!"

He accepted it with a smile.

Wang Qingsong looked at Xiaomai and laughed, "From now on, you'll have to practice the violin every day, you hear me? I'll have your sister-in-law supervise you."

This period of time presents such a great opportunity.

To master a skill, you need to practice repeatedly.

Xiaomai pouted and hummed in agreement, "Okay! Was Daddy being mean?"

What followed was naturally said to amuse the little guy.

Wang Qingsong smiled and left the room to go to the kitchen to cook.

His skills are much better than Liang Chunxiao's.

……

The next day, Wang Qingsong went to the factory as usual.

Now that the factory has a new system, Feng Yanchang has returned to the technical department after a meeting and discussion.

However, due to his special status, he can no longer hold his previous position.

Their treatment cannot be restored to what it used to be.

It will probably take a few more years.

The factory's production schedule is currently very tight.

After all, boosting production is also one of the slogans.

The main reason is that a lot of time during the day is spent in meetings and ideological education sessions, which reduces the amount of work left to do.

But at least it's normal now.

Wang Qingsong was also there learning how to manage logistics.

He was busy for quite a while in the morning before finally leaving.

Instead of eating at the cafeteria, they went directly to Hong Kong Island.

……

Upon returning to Hong Kong Island, he gave all the information to Du Wanting.

"Give these materials to Qian Min in batches. I have marked them all. Remember to sign the contract properly."

Although he trusted these people, he still needed to be cautious.

Du Wanting looked at the documents and nodded, "Okay, I understand. Now there are two more important things to do."

Wang Qingsong was puzzled.

"whats the matter!"

Seeing this, Du Wanting said, "The first one is that Spock received an order from General Electric in the United States. They want to purchase our 4004 chips in large quantities, but they need to design them separately. The total demand is 100,000 chips. This is just the initial stage."

Upon hearing this, Wang Qingsong was surprised.

Then he pondered it there.

This chip has already been used in the personal computers manufactured by the company.

The cost is $100, and the market price is at least $200.

But such a large quantity is very strange.

It's important to know that currently, no other company besides theirs uses personal computers.

Because personal computers had not yet been invented overseas.

Could it be that General Motors is planning to enter the computer business?

The other party is a military industrial enterprise.

Moreover, it remains the dominant player in the current radio industry.

If it's a mobile phone, that's possible, but how can it be a chip?

After a moment of quick thinking, he asked, "Has the Hong Kong government also intervened?"

Du Wanting nodded seriously: "You guessed it all, do you have something on your mind?"

Wang Qingsong nodded and said, "I know who wants it!"

When Intel developed the CPU, it received a large number of military orders.

Because missiles require a lot of calculations.

Naturally, this involves a large number of CPUs.

Should we sell or not?

Selling it would essentially strengthen the other party's power.

If they don't sell it, Intel, which will be established next year, will develop it in four years.

With military support and market demand, the other party will grow bigger.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Qingsong finally said, "Sell! Sell to them! $500 each!"

He had his own reasons for doing so.

After all, it's only been a few years since other companies developed their own CPUs, and there are many new models to come.

It occupies a dominant position.

Another reason is due to many factors.

The bald eagle is actually at a disadvantage in its current struggle with the bear.

His presence should have little impact.

Of course, he had other plans.

In addition to the 4004, the company also has an even more advanced model, the 8008.

Find an opportunity to promote 8008 to the mainland.

Although things are in a mess in mainland China right now, some particularly important departments are still able to function. Mainframe computers are still needed.

We'll figure out a way to sell them to the mainland then!
At worst, I'll just give you my initial investment.

Larger production volumes also greatly help in improving the process.

If all else fails, he'll get a few workstations from later generations and send them to the mainland for research.

Let alone workstations, even ordinary computers in later generations would far outperform the fastest computers today.

Putting aside other things, in 83, Bald Eagle launched the CRAYX-MP dual-processor parallel supercomputer series, with a peak vector speed of over 10 billion operations per second and a memory capacity of 8MB.

In later generations, memory was measured in gigabytes (GB).

However, this involves far too many things, after all, it has gone through so many years and generations of development.

Even if he gave it to the mainland, the mainland wouldn't be able to use it.

Du Wanting hummed in agreement.

He then added, "There's another matter. Song Wenqing contacted us today."

"Song Wenqing?"

Wang Qingsong was surprised.

It has been half a year since the other party responded to the call and returned.

The situation is probably not very good.

Then, out of curiosity, he asked, "Did he say anything?"

It should be noted that during this period, Song Wenqing's type of work was the most troublesome, except in one particular situation.

He has a powerful figure protecting him.

Du Wanting shook her head: "I'm not sure about the specifics, but I was just wondering if we could meet if we had time."

Wang Qingsong pondered for a moment.

He said, "Sure! I'm free now, around noon these next few days. I'll give him a call. Does he have the phone?"

“He was there before, but I don’t know now. I haven’t contacted him.”

Wang Qingsong responded with a "hmm".

He then picked up the phone and made a call.

Fortunately, it was Song Wenqing who answered the phone.

The other party is actually in Hong Kong Island right now.

After agreeing on an address, Wang Qingsong hung up the phone.

"Song Wenqing asked me to go to Wufengxing."

Du Wanting nodded in agreement: "I understand. Go ahead then! Oh, by the way, I asked you about something you asked me to keep in mind, it's about the Hung Hom Tunnel."

Wang Qingsong pondered for a moment after hearing this.

Construction on the Hung Hom Tunnel is scheduled to begin next year, but it should have started already.

According to the events of the previous life, it was invested and built by the shipping magnate Bao.

It cost HK$3.2 million and took four years to complete.

Why is there no sound?
After thinking about it for a while, I realized that it was very likely that he had entered the shipping market and taken away a lot of the other party's share, so the other party's life was not as glorious as it was in his previous life.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "You contact the Hong Kong government and we'll build the Hung Hom Tunnel."

This is a golden goose!

He recalled that the tunnel recouped its costs within three years of its completion.

It's roughly 100 million a year.

This was in the early stages, when there weren't many cars on Hong Kong Island. In the later stages, it was basically no problem to earn several billion dollars a year.

Du Wanting thought for a moment and said, "Should we do it? We don't have any experience with this!"

"I understand. Go find someone else. Our company can assist you; we are qualified to handle large-scale construction projects."

For a construction company to undertake large-scale projects, qualifications are very important.

Back then, even the shipowner didn't do the contracting himself; after agreeing on a price, he found another construction company to do it.

Du Wanting nodded in agreement, "Okay, I understand. You really do whatever comes to mind!"

Wang Qingsong smiled and said, "There will be many more of these kinds of things in the future."

Upon hearing this, Du Wanting rolled her eyes.

But thinking about it, even now, the company is involved in a wide range of industries.

It wouldn't be surprising to have an extra tunnel.

"Alright, I'm leaving now. I won't be back for a while. Take care of things here. Oh, and keep an eye on Spock."

He felt that Spock's desire to leave was likely related to General Motors.

Du Wanting nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

Seeing this, Wang Qingsong left the company.

I drove to Ng Fung Hang.

He naturally knew about Ng Fung Hong, a company under China Resources that specializes in agricultural trade between the mainland and Hong Kong Island.

Or rather, it's a company that specializes in delivering goods to Hong Kong Island.

We'll also transport some other things over there.

The place isn't very close.

It took more than ten minutes for the car to arrive at its destination.

However, instead of going to Ng Fung Hang, they went to a nearby teahouse.

After parking the car, he put on his sunglasses and went upstairs.

On the second floor, Song Wenqing was found.

The other person looked extremely haggard at this point.

"Mr. Song!"

"Mr. Li!"

The two greeted each other.

Song Wenqing looked at him and smiled, "Sit down! I just brewed some West Lake Longjing tea! Try it."

Wang Qingsong watched as he poured a cup of water from a large blue-and-white porcelain teapot.

She accepted it with a smile.

He then asked, "Mr. Song, may I ask what brings you here today?"

Get straight to the point.

Seeing this, Song Wenqing hesitated for a moment, then said, "It's like this, we..."

After listening, Wang Qingsong's eyes lit up.

The reason actually came from the computer.

Because inland areas lack high-performance mainframe computers, flood control departments are unable to make medium- to long-term forecasts of complex weather conditions. As a result, several flood peaks have struck suddenly without prior warning, causing enormous losses to people's lives and property.

Similarly, due to the lack of high-performance mainframe computers, the oil sector has to send a large amount of oil deposit data and information to foreign countries by plane every year for processing. This is not only expensive, but also means that the country's resource situation is first grasped by foreigners.

Song Wenqing approached him hoping to find a way to sell them a high-performance mainframe computer.

After listening, Wang Qingsong pondered it over.

Personal computers did indeed become the mainstream in later generations.

However, the market for mainframe computers, which are needed by many large enterprises, is larger than that for personal computers.

In fact, he had wanted to enter the mainframe market for a long time.

It will start in the next year or two at the latest.

Song Wenqing looked at him, sighed, and said, "Mr. Li should be aware of the current situation in the mainland! Sending the data abroad is no longer practical, at least not in the short term. Therefore, we want to import a large computer."

Upon hearing this, Wang Qingsong pondered for a moment.

He said, "Well... Mr. Song, I don't have access to mainframe computers."

In fact, there are also ideas in mainland China to purchase mainframes.

Unfortunately, it's not sold overseas.

Even if it's a sale, they require the mainland to build a hexagonal enclosure around the large aircraft, and only members of the Coordinating Committee of the Republic of Pakistan are allowed to operate it from inside.

Tell them what data you need to process, and they will process it.

These people are rotated to different positions every year, and they are paid high salaries.

The annual salary is no less than $100,000.

How could the mainland possibly accept such conditions?

If you agree, the other party will know exactly what the machine will be used for.

It's estimated that the mainland doesn't intend to use it to calculate oil exploration data.

Even in the current situation in mainland China, some departments are still well protected.

It's estimated that after their own 4004 CPU was released, people in mainland China also saw the situation.

Song Wenqing felt a wave of disappointment.

"Is it really not possible?"

Wang Qingsong nodded: "It's not a question of whether it's possible or not, but that I really don't have these channels. As you know, Hong Kong Island is a special place, and machines of this level are subject to inspection."

He paused for a moment, then said, "I don't have the channels, but I have the technology! Perhaps we can cooperate!"

These words startled Song Wenqing.

(End of this chapter)