1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 105: Build a PC
After some explanation, the concept of Chinese character input method framework design was popularized to the two principals.

Although it is still in the paper talk stage, the vision and insight of both Principal Zhou and Principal Liu are certainly not ordinary.

After they listened carefully.

They all showed expressions of admiration.

There is a door.

This guy's design idea is definitely promising.

It seems that the problem of improving the efficiency of Chinese character input method, which has been bothering everyone for many years, can be easily solved by this extraordinary talented boy.

The way a genius thinks is indeed different from that of ordinary people.

At this moment, Principals Yan and Qing were almost turned into Lu Yifan's super fanboys.

"Double pinyin and double form, using the pronunciation and form of Chinese characters at the same time, wow, this idea is really amazing!"

"Yes, yes, Xiao Lu, your brain is really useful. Your plan is very feasible!"

"That's right. There are 47 Chinese Pinyin initials and finals in total. According to the existing 101-key standard keyboard, if we compare it with the arrangement of 26 English letters, each key can have at most two duplicate codes. Adding the double complement code design at the back, each Chinese character can definitely be easily input into the computer accurately and efficiently with only four keystrokes at most. This plan is more than just genius, it's a stroke of genius..."

"No wonder you dared to boast that you would come up with a perfect solution within a month. After listening to your explanation, I suddenly felt that your boast of one month seemed a bit too conservative..."

"Haha, that's right. If you promise to finish it within a week, I think it will be possible..."

After the two principals listened to the explanation.

He was so excited that his face was beaming with joy, his mouth was spitting out foam, and his expression of pride and smugness was beyond words.

"Xiao Lu, tell me what kind of resources you need from the school!"

"Yes, yes, yes, Xiao Lu, you can go ahead with this project without any worries. Our Yanqing Second University is your strongest backing. Our school will definitely provide you with escort and support services in the later stages. If you have any requests, just ask. If Lao Zhou is stingy and refuses to agree, our Tsinghua University can fully assume all the resource supply guarantees for the project on its own..."

"Hey, Liu, don't be shameless! How can you sabotage and poach people in front of us like this?"

"Haha, Lao Zhou, stop pretending. Don't you have such thoughts in your mind right now?"

Lu Yifan was really infected by the enthusiasm of the two principals.

You two really don't treat me as an outsider. You scold and fight each other in front of me. As a super cross-school student, it seems that I really benefited from being so shameless.

He laughed.
"Principal Zhou, Principal Liu, with your statements, I, Lu Yifan, will definitely complete this matter perfectly even if I have to go through fire and water!"

"As for what other resources are needed, I have already made a shopping list."

"There are many electronic components that are definitely not available in our country. We have to buy them from overseas markets..."

Lu Yifan was really not polite at all.

His current idea is not just to complete the programming of a double-pinyin and double-form Chinese character input method, but he has some more ambitious plans.

He is ready.

The domestic version of the Apple computer era will begin ahead of schedule.

That's right.

He gave the two principals an extremely long shopping list.

For many things, you have to use foreign exchange to purchase directly from overseas markets.

There's no way around it.

Domestic computer product design and development.

They were still completely lagging behind the old-fashioned diode integrated circuit mainframe era. Basically, there was no sign of opening up the personal PC market.

Therefore, the difficulty of building a PC by hand increases exponentially.

Took the long shopping list handed over by Lu Yifan.

The two principals were stunned for a moment.

This kid, he really is, he doesn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are until he runs the household.

There are hundreds of items on this purchase list. If all of them were purchased from overseas markets, it would cost at least tens of thousands of dollars in foreign exchange, right?

"Xiao Lu, isn't your shopping list a bit too complicated?"

"Yes, yes, Xiao Lu, your solution for the 'double-pinyin and double-form' Chinese character input method should not require so many semiconductor electronic components, right? How come you actually have computer CPU chips like i8086/i8087, and you want to purchase 10 sets at once? And what are you purchasing? What are you going to do with the hot air gun and soldering gun..."

The two principals looked at the shopping list.

In fact, I already have some preliminary guesses in my mind.

But I really don’t dare to think in that direction.

After all, you, Lu Yifan, are just a freshman who has been studying in college for a month. Even if you are a genius, you cannot be so proficient in everything.

"Why, you two are unwilling to do this after I made you bleed?"

"If you really don't want to support me, that's fine. I can just swallow my pride and go to the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to ask for help. I believe they should be happy to give me this convenience..."

Seeing that the two principals looked distressed, Lu Yifan deliberately provoked them and pretended to go to the Institute of Computing Technology for help.

Well, this really hit the nail on the head for the two principals.

The two of them stared at Lu Yifan.
"Who said we don't want to?"

"That's right, Xiao Lu, don't try to provoke us with such a clumsy trick. We are afraid that you will go astray, understand..."

"Forget it! You've always been so bold. Look at the things listed on your shopping list. You're planning to tinker with that personal PC yourself! Do you really think we don't understand?"

"You little brat, if you just wanted to come up with a 'double-pinyin and double-form' Chinese character input method, as long as you succeeded, it would definitely be a great achievement for the country, and you would gain both fame and fortune. But you took the opportunity to tinker with personal PCs. Do you know how big the risk is? If you mess it up, you won't get any credit. If you have been in college for two or three years and want to do this, Lao Liu and I will never say no, but now..."

"Oh! I won't say any more. Since you want to go crazy, Lao Zhou and I will go crazy with you..."

The matter involves the use and destination of tens of millions of dollars in foreign exchange.

Even as the principals of Yanqing Second School, Zhou and Liu could not make the decision on their own.

The risks and pressures they have to deal with are definitely not as simple as spending money to buy some electronic components.

not to mention.

Currently, Lu Yifan still carries the exaggerated reputation of being a young man who wants to compete with the experts from the Institute of Computing Technology in scientific research capabilities.

Under such circumstances, if the outside world knew that Lu Yifan was planning to build a personal PC and treat the country's computer development as a joke...

Anyway, it's done.

If the final thing can not be done.

Otherwise, the villain will take the opportunity to target you and bite you hard.

The school and the student Lu Yifan will have a hard time.

(End of this chapter)