Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 508 Hanka
June, early summer.

He Ping moved back to Hantun with his wife and children. The villagers welcomed He Ping's return very much.

The faster and better development of Hantun is inseparable from the leadership of He Ping in the past few years. He has become the backbone of the people in Hantun, and everyone feels at ease with him.

In the financial office of the chicken farm, He Ping watched Zhang Xinjun do the accounting.

In the 80s, there was no mature office software on the computer. Zhang Xinjun used the computer more as a big abacus when doing accounts.

"Seeing that you are quite proficient, how does it feel to use it?" He Ping asked.

"Mr. He, computers and things are not very helpful for us to make accounts now. This is because I am proficient in using them, and I can still calculate accounts. Some financial personnel can't keep up with the efficiency of using abacus. But if it is for office work, there is still a problem. Less functional, especially for printing things, it is very convenient.”

For the four computers that He Ping bought at the beginning, Wang Shi thoughtfully equipped them with four Apple Dot Matrix Writer dot matrix printers.

Zhang Xinjun is telling the truth. The functions of computers in this era are indeed simple. Without the cooperation of office software and systems, it is not very meaningful to use computers for office work.

But the purpose of He Ping to let everyone learn computers is not simply for office work, but more to broaden everyone's horizons.

"Computers change every year. In the future, it will be an important tool to connect the world. You learn to use computers not only for work, but also to broaden your horizons and thinking, and use computers and the Internet to open up to the world. door."

He Ping had told them these words before. Zhang Xinjun didn't understand what the Internet He Ping was talking about, because he had never seen it before and couldn't imagine it.

Facing his question, He Ping scratched his head a little. This is the embarrassment of being ahead of the times.

The earliest use of the Internet in China was on August 1986, 8. Wu Weimin of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences remotely logged in to the account of VXCRNA Wang Shuqin, a machine at CERN in Geneva, on an IBM-PC at Institute 25 in Beijing through a satellite link. An email was sent to Steinberger in Geneva.

However, it was not until 1994 that the country was fully functionally connected to the Internet.

On April 1994, 4, NCFC realized a full-featured connection with the Internet through the 20K special line of Sprint Corporation of the United States.

At this time, it is tantamount to talking about the Internet.

"We already have it in foreign countries, but it is estimated that we will have to wait a few more years in China. It may take at least ten years to apply it on a large scale."

Zhang Xinjun didn't bother with this problem anymore, he said: "Actually, the reason why people think this computer is not easy to use is that the system is all in English, which is too laborious. I was looking up the dictionary for three months to study, and I was able to do it. Fluent to use. Some people have no problem letting him operate, but facing the English on the screen, he has nowhere to start!"

He Ping nodded and said: "Indeed, the current computer systems are all in English, which is inherently an obstacle for us. I asked someone to inquire before, and they said that the Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of An expansion card for Chinese character processing, called Hanka. They contacted me some time ago. There are very few places in China with computers. They are now selling Chinese cards everywhere in the world. It is estimated that they should come to us this month. "

Zhang Xinjun said happily: "That's great, it will be much more convenient for everyone to use the computer, thank you Mr. He."

"Thank you, you work hard, and I will be responsible for solving your difficulties. Isn't this a matter of course!"

A few days after chatting with Zhang Xinjun, the people from the computer company of the Chinese Academy of Sciences arrived in Ping County.

"Hi Mr. He, I'm Liu Chuanzhi from the Computer Company of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

When He Ping talked with Liu Chuanzhi on the phone, he knew that the other end of the phone was the famous Lenovo boss in later generations, so he was not surprised to see Liu Chuanzhi.

"Hi Mr. Liu, welcome to Ping County."

Liu Chuanzhi came here this time to promote the Chinese card launched by the computer company.

The computer company was just established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences last year. The general manager is Wang Shuhe, and Liu Chuanzhi and Zhang Zuxiang are the vice presidents. They have a total of 11 people from the computing institute, but there is still a lack of a technical leader and a leading product, so the three of them simultaneously Thinking of one person, they invited the 12th person into the company, and this was Ni Guangnan.

In the early 80s, microcomputer technology was just introduced to China, but due to the lack of Chinese character processing capabilities, the scope of computer applications was greatly reduced. At this time, computer workers across the country were doing various research and development for Chinese character processing, Chinese character input, display, New hardware and software technologies such as printing and font libraries were introduced continuously.

As the most authoritative computing technology research institution in China, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also has many scientists working on Chinese character processing technology.

In 1968, Ni Guangnan, Zhu Naigang, Wan Yongxi and others first developed a display capable of displaying 717 Chinese characters on the "256 computer". For Chinese characters with different glyphs, a light pen is also introduced as a means of human-computer interaction.

In the early 70s, the Lenovo input method was first proposed. The so-called "Lenovo" means that when you input the word "中", the computer will automatically display Chinese characters such as "国", "央", and "间" as the next input method. word candidates.

These technologies were later integrated into the "111 Chinese Character Information Processing System", which uses a standard keyboard and light pen, and adopts the associative input method.

At the same time, the self-developed Chinese character display and Chinese character dot matrix printer were used as the output means, forming a relatively complete Chinese character processing system, which became the Chinese character processing platform of the English-Chinese machine translation system in the institute at that time.

After that, on the basis of it, the "LX-1983 Chinese character graphics microcomputer" was developed in 80 using the Z80 chip.All of the above are the scientific research achievements of Ni Guangnan and his colleagues in the Institute of Computing.And LX is the first two letters of Lenovo's Chinese pinyin LianXiang.

Ni Guangnan was transplanting the Chinese character technology of the "LX-80" machine to the PC. Although the "LX-80" was independently developed, it was an 8-bit machine, while the PC was a 16-bit machine.At that time, there was already a CCDOS Chinese character system developed by Yan Yuanchao on the PC, but there were many shortcomings. For example, on the PC/XT, the display speed of Chinese characters was only dozens of per second, and the full screen could only display ten lines of Chinese character text, and the Chinese character font library occupied 1/3 RAM, the display of Chinese characters must pass through the BIOS, which destroys the "direct screen writing" protocol, making Western software unable to adapt, etc.

So Ni Guangnan transplanted the Lenovo Chinese character technology implemented on the LX-80 to the PC, and developed an expansion card for the PC, named Lenovo Chinese Card (LX-PC). Regardless of whether the PC processes Chinese or Western languages, the display speed remains unchanged, the display format remains unchanged, the font library does not occupy RAM, and the "direct screen writing" protocol remains unchanged. Basically, Western software can process Chinese without "Sinicization".

The reason why the Computing Institute invited Ni Guangnan to join was because he saw that the Chinese card he made was about to come out.

Sure enough, in the few years after Hanka, it became the fist product of computer companies, opened up the market for computers, and also opened up the reputation of the later "Lenovo" company.

But at the time point of 85, Lenovo Hanka was just an obscure thing. Most people didn't even know what it was, let alone heard of it.

So when Liu Chuanzhi heard from his friends that there was a company in Northeast China that wanted to buy Chinese cards, he almost jumped up for joy.

Since the launch of the Chinese Card, the computer company has exhausted all its contacts. As the vice president of the company, Liu Chuanzhi took people all over the country, but the number of users who bought it was very small, and less than 50 sets were sold throughout the year.

This made the people in the company a little disheartened. Could it be that the products they made were so advanced that they couldn't be used in China now.

It is normal for people in computer companies to have such doubts. There are only a few computer users in China, and almost [-]% of them are used by government agencies and state-owned enterprises. The demand for Chinese cards is really not big.

This situation will not improve until after 86.

(End of this chapter)