1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 112: The launch of the domestically produced Apple Mac
In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed.

Even though the "All People's Daily" recently reported the great success of the "double-pinyin and double-form" Chinese character input method, Lu Yifan did not take the opportunity to make a high-profile appearance as the outside world had speculated, and launch a desperate counterattack to refute the widely circulated argument about the advantages of being a native English speaker.

Lu Yifan seemed to have disappeared.

He was never seen on campus.

Apart from the two principals Zhou and Liu, no one else can track his whereabouts.

In fact, during this half month when he seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, Lu Yifan had been staying in the experimental field of the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Science.

Director Lin Jiantao personally assisted him.
The Institute of Computing Technology has set up a task force to tackle the domestic PC project.

That’s right, I originally planned to build a PC by myself.

But after going through the mysterious base outside Beijing, he developed and compiled the "double-pinyin and double-shape" Chinese character input method on a domestic mainframe.

Lu Yifan was extremely amazed by the incredible paper programming skills of current practitioners in the domestic computer industry.

Therefore, I had a brief exchange with Lin Jiantao in the base.

They hit it off immediately and moved to the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, preparing to use the institute's soft power to lay a solid foundation for the first domestically-made PC.

There is actually an Apple personal PC prototype in the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Science and Technology, which Liu Chuanzi got from his sister's house on the other side of the ocean with the help of his family's overseas connections.

There has always been a huge disagreement within the Institute of Computing Technology on whether to carry out scientific research to produce domestic PC products.

The previous view was that it would be meaningless to develop such civilian-grade products until the problems between PC products and the Chinese application environment were resolved.

It not only wastes financial, material and human resources, but also is thankless.

It would be fine if the price of the product is very cheap, but if it is extremely expensive, it would be better to just buy it directly from overseas.

After all, the application scope of personal PC products is to realize office automation, which is just an oversized calculator product with slightly more functions.

Do not laugh.

The historical background is very different.

Even within an organization like the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Science.

Not everyone is convinced about the future of computer products.

Can have a very precise cognitive positioning.

Domestic mainframes can still use their natural computing power advantages to accomplish complex and varied tasks such as aerospace, astronomical computing and prediction, and processing of excessive amounts of data.

Therefore, no matter how difficult the economic situation is, the country has always gritted its teeth and continued the scientific research and iteration of mainframes.

however.

Regarding the development and popularization of personal PCs that have emerged overseas.

In the eyes of most people, the application field is nothing more than high-tech tools needed to facilitate people's daily work, right?
In addition, no one can imagine the extent to which future computer products can achieve the projection of a magical virtual reality world, and enable every bit of people's daily life to be digitized, networked, and entertained by computers...

Therefore, from the very beginning, personal PCs were not given enough attention in China.

Of course, now we have the 'double pinyin and double form' Chinese character input solution, which perfectly solves the basic problem of Chinese application.

In addition, there is Lu Yifan, who has the space-time bug, and he has popularized the concept of computer application scenarios in the future for the researchers at the Institute of Computing Technology who have "crazily imagined" it.

Everyone is enthusiastic about developing domestic PC products.

Finally, there is a little more passion.

There is strength in numbers.

The first generation of Macintosh PCs were not very complex.

So the reverse analysis and imitation work is carried out within the Institute of Computing Technology.

Soon the corresponding results were made known to the world.

In the institute, five Apple-like first-generation PC products were imitated at one time.

To build this kind of PC, the performance is only at the 286 level.

As for other ideas, such as audio-visual entertainment, forget about them.

Inspired by Lu Yifan's "crazy fantasy", the Institute of Computing Technology focused on the network communication functions and email applications of these five PC products, making them the top priority.

this day.

5 PCs were started simultaneously.

Five PCs located in different offices began to test the Chinese network interconnection and email communication functions for the first time.

Lu Yifan and Ni Guangnan, engineer Ni, were assigned to the same working group.

"Mr. Ni, please write the email for this machine!" "Okay, I'll write it, but Xiao Lu, what should I write?"

"Hello, world? This is a Chinese letter. It is a small step for information dissemination, but also a big step for the University of East China towards the world..."

"Hey, this is good, this is good, Xiao Lu, you are imitating Armstrong!"

Crack, crackle.

Ni Guangnan had mastered the 'double-pinyin and double-shape' Chinese character input method quite well, and he quickly edited an email on the screen.

Then, edit the program code line.

Press Enter to execute the email sending instruction.

Then, the two of them held their breath at the same time, waiting for the result.

beep beep...

Soon, the host buzzer sounded.

"Mr. Ni, look, it was sent successfully!"

"Yes, yes, our PC communication and email function tests have been perfectly implemented..."

beep beep...

"Hey, there's an email notification..."

"Open it and take a look..."

"Wow, PC No. 2 also successfully sent an email..."

All of a sudden, the five PCs were communicating with each other, and the email interconnection tests were all successful.

There were constant cheers of excitement in the laboratory of the Institute of Computing Technology.

This has such extraordinary significance!

With the Chinese email interconnection function of PC products, it can perfectly replace communication equipment such as radio and telegraph!

All morning long.

The experimental base has been repeatedly testing the reliability and stability of the communication interconnection between the five PCs.

Hundreds and thousands of email communication interconnection tests have been conducted, and the results have fully demonstrated the practicality of the development of this function.

Then it was afternoon.

The institute then transported three of the PCs directly to another area in Beijing.

Then, we continued to test the remote email communication interconnection between the 5 PCs through the existing power network.

Yes, you read it right. The 'network communication' function currently developed and used by the Institute of Computing Technology does not use special dedicated lines, but instead tries to use the power network and wired telephone network from the very beginning.

Network communication is nothing more than the transmission of a special electronic signal pulse code.

In principle, using the existing power grid and wired telephone network to achieve electronic communication between computers is not an insurmountable chasm.

As for the development of computer Internet technology in another time and space.

Why are exclusive network standards derived?

Why can't multiple lines be integrated into one? It is not because it is purely technically difficult to achieve, but because capitalists deliberately set up standards in order to make money.

For example, why have computer high-tech products entered a vicious circle of repeated iterations of software and hardware with continuous upward upgrades and monster-killing since their birth?

It's all about the interests of capital. In order to be able to repeatedly reap profits through high-tech means, they deliberately control the so-called Moore's Law in the IT industry.

To put it bluntly, this is because Western capitalists have the monopoly advantage in high-tech technology and can do whatever they want to maximize their profits.

That’s all.

But right now, the Institute of Computing Technology of China Science and Technology seems to be embarking on an unconventional "evil path" from the very beginning in its efforts to tackle the problem of PC product research and development.

Obviously, Lu Yifan was undoubtedly the pioneer who secretly pushed the Institute of Computing Technology onto the "evil path".

There is no way around it. The computer high-tech industry in Europe and the Western world is the private domain of the old capitalists.

Don't even mention that the current Tokyo University has no strength or foundation at all, and is only developing in its own circle in this field. Moreover, once the country embarks on the pace of comprehensive economic reform and opening up, even if it has the opportunity to follow Western standards and develop computer high-tech industries under Western standards at a large pace, it will definitely be sanctioned by the old sister's big stick.

Therefore, from the very beginning, you should first identify a so-called "evil path" and try it in advance. Who knows, the "evil path" may eventually lead to a smooth road.

This is called foreseeing in advance, overtaking on a curve, and reaching the same destination by different routes...

(End of this chapter)