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"Director Yang, we have no problem finding a venue in the exhibition hall for this group technical discussion meeting, but on the first day of this global computer conference, the total number of domestic and foreign guests exceeds 5000. It is not easy to find a venue. Originally, we thought of finding a large movie theater, but the largest movie theater only has 1800 seats. In addition, the largest auditorium of each agency does not have more than 2000 seats, let alone accommodating 5000 people.

It seems that we need to find a gymnasium to temporarily build the main venue. "After the person in charge of the conference venue went to various places in Yandu for a few days, he fed back the venue information to Professor Yang Zhenjun.

Professor Yang had no idea what to do about this unexpected question, so he threw it back to Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong thought about it for a while and called Staff Officer Ye to ask him to coordinate the venue matters.

Staff Officer Ye was very concerned about such a far-reaching event. After the organization listened to the report of the organizing committee, he took charge of this issue.

Staff Officer Ye is very reliable.

It only took two days to confirm the venue.

"An auditorium for tens of thousands of people?!" Ren Zhong's heart skipped a beat when he saw the request document approved by Staff Officer Ye. It was really awesome.

Ren Zhong knew that it was not easy to find a place large enough to accommodate 5 people for a meeting, and there was almost no other choice except the gymnasium.

Although places like today's unit auditoriums and public cinemas are designed to be large, and are by no means the customized small halls in the main world's new time and space, the number of seats is at most 1000 or so. After all, there is only one screen and stage for watching movies. If the theater is too big, the people in the back will basically not be able to see anything.

Therefore, these venues certainly cannot meet the upper limit of the number of people required at the main venue of the Global Computer Conference.

The other option is to renovate the stadium. The number of seats in the stadium is definitely more than enough, but the current broadcasting technology cannot simultaneously broadcast the surrounding scenes. It is undoubtedly a bit low-key to hold the main venue in the venue converted from the stadium, and it does not match the style of the first international conference.

Staff Officer Ye directly coordinated the construction of a super conference hall that could accommodate 10,000 people, which immediately solved the major problem of the meeting and filled the first Global Computer Conference to a full capacity!

Not to mention that Professor Yang Zhenjun did not expect that a meeting could be held in such a large place, even Ren Zhong could not have imagined it.

After solving the venue problem, I started to focus on organizing the slides for the technical exchange and selecting the speakers.

Lectures in this era were relatively primitive. There were no computer PPTs, nor projectors that could be connected to computers. Only relatively simple slide projectors were used to project slides.

The slides for such projections have to be made by hand, and each one is quite difficult to make.

If you want to explain a lot of content, it will take a lot of effort to make each slide. So when it comes to content selection, the scientists giving the keynote speeches must pick out the most important content, and then carefully design the content and patterns. After arranging the content in the draft design, professionals will then carefully make the content into slides and release them when giving the presentation at the conference.

Especially for designs such as computer architecture and computer interface, it is difficult to explain them clearly with words if there are no diagrams to show them. Since it is an open source standard, this technology-oriented conference must explain many key things to the participants so that they can assemble this personal computer using Dongda's CPU, memory stick, floppy disk and software operating system according to this standard. As for the computer case, motherboard, computer power supply, peripheral input devices and display devices, these are all allowed to be customized freely.

It seems that each computer may have a different appearance, but the core part still comes from the core of Tokyo University.

Of course, it is not an easy task to make the technical experts and scholars attending the conference understand the basic principles.

Therefore, in terms of preparation for special technologies, the technical working group spent a lot of energy to screen the content to be explained. They had to ensure that the key technologies could not be leaked, otherwise it would be troublesome for these people to innovate based on these technologies. At the same time, they had to allow these people to follow our pace and follow the technical route of compatible machines, and guide their thinking on the access of peripherals. After all, in terms of peripherals, there are too many things that computers need to connect to.

Conventional office equipment such as printers and fax machines need to be connected, and more widely in industrial integrated control. With the compact computer structure of personal computers, industrial control software is frankly easier to customize for intelligent machine tools than for transistor computers.

Ren Zhong's idea was to let these people focus on expanding these applications and popularize the use of computers in homes and factories in the shortest possible time.

We can also benefit from such technological iteration process.

Although the widespread use of computers will lead to the disappearance of some types of work and the reduction of some positions, it can greatly improve the labor efficiency of many types of work. It has a strong positive effect on the improvement of world productivity. With this thing's influence on the progress of world scientific and technological development, it may provide a buffer against the short-term economic crisis among the great powers.

If the economic crisis of the great powers can be delayed, Ren Zhong believes that the world's peaceful development period will be longer, which is very beneficial to the University of Tokyo, which is in urgent need of development space.

According to the current peaceful development, not only is the technology of Dongda advancing rapidly, but many fields have begun to develop from scratch. Gradually, under the influence of Ren Zhong's purchase, new technologies are rapidly iterated, achieving a high-speed development model of iterating and optimizing one generation every 2-3 years. In this way, our technological development speed is equivalent to developing at double the speed, and it won't be long before we will catch up with the level of the world of Liang Jian.

It is not known whether the release of personal computers can change some historical trends, usher in a prosperous period ahead of time and strive for an external environment of peaceful development.

Jack and Peter are a medium-sized electronic equipment supplier in North America. When the boss saw the personal computer released by Dongda, he immediately fell in love with it. After internal discussion, they confirmed that if Dongda really opened up the relevant technology of personal computers, they were fully capable of designing a new personal computer and selling it!
After all, a computer with office functions that costs less than US$2000 is a bit expensive, but it has a popular price-performance ratio compared to transistor computers.

Therefore, for this global computer conference convened by the University of Tokyo, the company sent Jack and Peter to the University of Tokyo to study and obtain relevant technical information. Jack and Peter are both technical backbones of the company in their 30s. They are the main designers of the company's electronic products and have a deep foundation in electronic technology, especially in circuit design.

The mere less than US$2000 in conference fees and materials fees are nothing to them. It is much less than the airfare in this era, and compared to developing a new product, this expense is negligible.

After traveling thousands of miles, Peter and Jack arrived at the conference reporting office of the University of East China.

Both technicians were a little stunned.

"Jack, aren't all these people here to attend the meeting?" Peter asked in astonishment, looking at the long line in front of him and the many blond and blue-eyed people in the line.

Jack was also a little confused. He had never dreamed that this conference would have so many participants! Because there was no Internet at that time, the registration information was communicated to the conference group separately by telegram. Before the meeting, the conference group did not publish the relevant registration information. Of course, this was the first time they did this, and they did not know that the disclosure of these registration information would cause a huge sensation.

Ren Zhong did not pay attention to all these things all the time, so when Professor Yang Zhenjun received the statistics that several thousand people participated, he was already overwhelmed by joy, and apart from reporting the good news to Ren Zhong, he did not do anything else.

However, the registration period is only two or three days, so long queues at the registration office are inevitable.

After all, the applicants' identity information needs to be checked and verified against their passports, and fees need to be paid, so the process cannot be fast. Even though the number of staff has been doubled and three registration channels have been opened, there are still long queues.

Jack looked at the reception office of the World Computer Conference written in E at the front of the line. The address was correct. "Yes, this is where we register." After saying that, Jack found a blond man with an afro in the queue in front and asked, "Sir, are you registering for the World Computer Conference?"

"Yes, are you guys here to attend this convention too?" the blond guy with the afro replied, "Brother, judging by your accent, are you from New York?"

"Yes, we are from New York Setech Electronic Technology Company. My name is Jack and his name is Peter." Jack didn't expect to meet a fellow villager.

"My name is Wittman, and I'm from New York Tyco Electronics. It seems we have the same idea when it comes to personal computers." The big brother with the blond afro said with a smile.

I didn't feel unhappy at all because of being a potential competitor.

"Yes, we have studied the functions of this personal computer proposed by Dongda. Our company is very optimistic about its future. We have a great idea and plan to make a big splash with the functions of this personal computer." Peter said excitedly when he met an old friend in a foreign land.

But he didn't say what he was doing specifically.

For Cytec, they have their own customer base and service areas.

"Yes, we also have a lot of great ideas. We think that Dongda's understanding of personal computers is still too narrow. This is not just a tool for individual users. We think it should have a wider range of applications." Wittman nodded and expressed his understanding of the two guys' ideas. It seems that this is an industry-oriented competitor. Although there are certain conflicts with himself, there should be no direct competitive relationship at present.

After all, neither Wittman nor Peter had intended to sell personal computers to home customers.

They themselves were well aware that their expertise was not in building the personal computer as a home consumer product.

"Well, Wittman, it seems that we both have great ideas. I hope we can all achieve our goals in the end." Peter said happily.

After Peter and Jack finished registering, they found that the numbers on their conference delegate cards had reached 2000. They were a little confused again. They found that the conference delegate cards were issued in the order of application, which meant that the number of people who had registered by their end had exceeded 2000!

"Hiss" Are there so many people signing up for a technical conference now? The two of them took a deep breath.

However, they soon became happy. Everyone was optimistic about this thing, which showed that its future prospects were indeed bright. Peter and Jack didn't know what the Wittman company they met by chance did, but they were definitely not in the same industry, so everyone's ideas might be directed towards their own industry, so it didn't matter.

So, this time everyone has come to the right place.

After completing registration, they were assigned to several designated hotels. Of course, food and lodging were all at their own expense. US$499 was only the participation fee, not the all-inclusive price.

This is what Ren Zhong decided. He plans to do the same for all future conferences. He wants to encourage these delegates who come to the conference to go into the tourism and catering sectors. After all, there are several thousand people. If they contribute one or two thousand dollars to Yandu's consumption, that would amount to several million dollars in revenue.

People nowadays have no concept of tourism development. Of course, Ren Zhong will not promote this thing when everyone has just enough food and clothing. Now is not the time for everyone to start enjoying life.

In the hotel, Peter and Jack looked at their foreign faces everywhere. Hundreds of rooms in the hotel were full. They confirmed that the abstract numbers in front of them were real people!
This conference was really popular.

Conference preparation group.

The number of registered people and the number of people staying in hotels are updated every day, and the data is constantly refreshed.

After the registration deadline, the number of on-site participants from overseas exceeded 4000, and the number of domestic participants exceeded 1000. This was achieved while strictly controlling the number of registrations in each province.

If registration is opened up, the number of applicants in the country will probably exceed 3000!

It was only at this time that the conference preparation group issued the first press release.

Combined with the news clips of the TV interview, after the TV news was released that day, the grand occasion of the first World Computer Conference suddenly became a hot news topic again!

Although the influence of the news was much smaller than that of the news released about personal computers, in the reports of the mainstream media in the world, they almost all quoted this news from the University of Tokyo, once again continuing the craze for personal computers.

In the minds of many ordinary people, there is now a very strong expectation. When they see that so many companies in their country have sent people to Dongda to learn the technology of this product, they are looking forward to when they can use it.

After all, everything described by personal computers is so beautiful now.

(End of this chapter)