Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1706: Flying Forest

In addition to economic benefits, the two also gained fame.

With the promotion of people with good intentions, Masuoka's story gradually became widely known. The title of "Father of Flash Memory", which was given to Masuoka decades later in the previous life, has begun to appear in media reports in this life.

Flash memory, the most "trendy" storage device, has become affordable for ordinary people as the cost of storage units has plummeted. People are gradually becoming aware of its excellent performance and genius design.

Some forward-thinking scholars have begun to imagine what mobile information devices will look like in the future. Among the five major components of a computer, the miniaturization of storage units now seems to be achievable through flash memory chips.

Zhou Zhi's design of combining Wincolver with the TYPE-C interface was also commented by the media as the "most genius product design" this year, and it also woke up a group of designers at Clover Company, who quickly designed a portable mobile storage device called "Flash Disk".

"This." Matsui Zou took out a metal box that was the size of a playing card box but only half as thick. The four-leaf clover logo on it shone brightly. "This is the latest product that Engineer Li asked me to bring you. It has a capacity of 1.5G and is currently the largest flash memory mobile storage device. Congratulations, Elbow."

"Mr. Li is so happy." Zhou Zhi said with a wry smile: "I don't have any device with a Type-C interface right now. My laptop only has a serial port and a parallel port."

"You should have told me earlier!" Matsui said, "I would have brought you a Toshiba laptop."

"Toshiba has also released a laptop with TYPE-C?"

With the launch of Microsoft Windows 95, various multimedia applications also came along. As representatives of high configuration and fashion, various notebook computers were also the first to use various new accessories.

"It's not just TYPE-C, it also uses an optical drive and a flash hard drive, successfully reducing the weight to less than one kilogram. The industry calls it a 'thin and light notebook'."

"So light? What's the configuration?" Zhou Zhi was a little surprised. The speed on this track was really too fast.

"The latest model is called Tecra 730XCDT, it has a mobile Pentium MMX processor, a main frequency of 150MHz, 16MB of memory, a 2.02GB hard drive, a 12.1-inch display, and a 10X CD-ROM. Oh, and this laptop also has a 16-bit sound card, so you can listen to music and watch videos. It's a standard multimedia laptop."

Listening to music with a 16-bit sound card is a bit nonsensical, and watching videos at a resolution of 640 is even more nonsensical, but to be honest, such a configuration is sufficient for document editing and storage.

As long as it’s not a WORD document with millions of words, it’s fine.

"Why don't you ask the price?" Jin Chunyi asked.

"How much?" Zhou Zhi was quite supportive.

"One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars."

"It's not that bad? Is this expensive?"

"I forgot how much this thing costs in your country. You can't buy it at this price in China."

The difference of one US dollar and two thousand is equivalent to RMB 15,000. After adding tariffs and other links, it can be sold for 18,000 in China, so 1,999 US dollars is actually cheap in Zhou Zhi's opinion. This incident itself can also illustrate the shock that domestic memory chips will bring to the world. Just like the shock that the price of matsutake mushrooms in China brought to Matsui Zou and Jin Junyi.

Japan and South Korea are both countries that have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture. In 1995, Chinese culture had not yet become an existence that brought huge pressure to its neighbors. This can be seen from the fact that it took another ten years for Seoul to be renamed as Seoul.

Therefore, when Jin Chunyi and Matsui Zuo saw the short pine trees on the grassland outside the window, they couldn't help but start a discussion.

"Those are Yunnan pine trees. Yunnan pine trees grow at altitudes between 600 and 3,100 meters. They like light, have strong adaptability, are drought-resistant and barren-resistant, and prefer a mild, semi-shady environment and well-drained acidic sandy soil."

"Are all Yunnan pines so short? I seem to have found a tree species suitable for bonsai," said Matsui Zou.

Tree bonsai is very popular in the island country and is one of the island country’s top intangible cultural heritages. The most important type of tree bonsai is the pine tree.

"No, Yunnan pine can grow very tall. The reason why it is so short here is because the land is barren and dry, and the wind is too strong, so these pine trees can only grow close to the ground, and finally become like this."

"That means it is not suitable for growth here." Jin Chunyi was a little puzzled: "Then why is there a pine forest here that has grown into a small shrub forest?"

"Because this is originally an artificial forest, an aerial seeding afforestation experiment that started in 1958." Zhou Zhi has now read a lot of information and has a clearer understanding of the origins of this aerial seeding forest. He feels that he needs to promote it to the two foreigners.

"According to historical records, from 1893 to the years before liberation, floods and mudslides occurred in the East and West Rivers of the autonomous prefecture nearly times, an average of more than once a year."

"After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to thoroughly control the Dongxihe area where natural disasters frequently occurred, the state decided to carry out an experimental afforestation project by aircraft seeding in the Dongxihe area. That year, six flights were carried out, and the sowing area was nearly 17,000 mu. However, because the afforestation season was too late, the seedlings did not have enough time to grow and had shallow roots. During the spring inspection the following year, it was found that the survival rate was less than 10%."

"But with experience, things became easier. In 1959, the area was expanded to 105,000 mu. And most of the seeds took root and sprouted. When we checked again during the dry season the following year, we found that small pine trees had sprouted greenly on the barren hills."

"This shows that the aerial seeding has finally been successful, setting a precedent for safe low-altitude aerial seeding in China's high mountainous areas, and also accumulating valuable experience for large-scale aerial seeding."

"In the following eight years, the state successfully planted 984,000 mu of forest in the state capital and surrounding areas through aerial seeding. A survey in 1972 showed that 490,000 mu of forest survived, and aerial seeding was a huge success."

"So far, the aerial seeding afforestation area has reached 3100 square kilometers, with the highest altitude of 1580 meters and the lowest altitude of meters, covering nine rivers and more than gullies in the territory."

"The forest coverage rate in the Dongxihe area has increased from 5% before aerial seeding to 38% now. The flood flow through the state capital during the rainy season has been reduced by one-third, and the flood peak has been delayed by more than two hours. The sediment flowing into the Qionghai and Anning rivers from the Dongxihe River has been reduced by 50%, the air humidity has increased by 14%, and the wind speed has decreased by 18%. Forty thousand mu of fertile farmland that was destroyed in history has been restored."

After introducing these achievements, Zhou Zhi pointed to the area in front and said: "These dwarf pine forests are actually the failed products of aerial seeding in the area, but the more direct benefit to us is that there are more mushrooms."

Matsui Zou and Jin Chun looked at each other in bewilderment. Such an advanced idea of ​​aerial seeding for afforestation actually took place in the poor areas of China that they thought were quite backward, and even produced results...

Both of them had the same idea: the Chinese seem to be really bad at promoting themselves.