Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 5 Knowledge does not cost money

"Just put it here, thank you, you can go."

Evelyn's words brought back Ethan's thoughts.

Looking at the slender fingers that kept knocking on the table, he put the tray in front of the other person knowingly, and said with a smile, "Oh Evelyn, is there no possibility of easing up the relationship between us?"

"No."

Evelyn answered decisively, took a sip of the clam soup, and the salty taste made her squint her eyes.

"Ethan, you let me down, you know that?"

While stirring the soup, she said: "Although our family relies on farming for a living, and our annual income is determined by God, and we still suffer losses in extreme weather, it does not mean that our family is short of money. Years of operation have allowed Thomas to accumulate a lot of wealth."

"Besides, our family is different from other host families, right? Linda is your aunt and Thomas is your uncle. When they can't have children, they treat you as their own son. They It never occurred to me to throw you out of the family when you were an adult."

"In the absence of financial pressure, I really don't know why you are so anxious to make money? Don't you know that time is precious? Don't you know that Thomas' greatest wish is to get us out of the orchard? Although he has always said, If we don't want to go out, we can watch the garden with him! But at the same time, when we want to pay a teacher for SAT tutoring, he just pays without thinking!"

"Ding dong!"

Having said that, Evelyn vigorously shook the spoon into the bowl.

The metal collided with the ceramic, making a crisp sound.

The nostalgic words made Ethan drag a stool from the side and sit beside Evelyn.

Reaching out to help her break off the Dungeness crab's legs, he also said, "Evelyn, have you heard such a saying? Age is not the real criterion for distinguishing whether a person is mature. If you want to know whether a person is mature, you have to See what his mind is like."

"I used to be impetuous and self-centered, which brought you a lot of disappointment and regret. I apologize for that. I don't ask you to forgive me, but I want you to know that now I can understand your feelings. kindness."

Evelyn turned her head, frowned slightly, and looked at Ethan in a daze.

Ethan handed the broken crab legs to her.

The handsome face with a smile made Evelyn's pupils constrict.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Evelyn finally took the crab legs from Ethan.

While tasting it, she also asked in a vague tone: "How much did Mi Luohua pay you?"

"Seven months plus a week's wages."

"That's more than 2000?"

Evelyn made a simple calculation and asked, "What are your plans for the next step?"

"I know I still have the opportunity to study, but my SAT has expired."

Although SAT scores do not have a clear validity period, most universities require applicants to provide scores within two years.Ethan's grades were obtained three years ago, so many schools have already rejected them.

"You can take the exam again, and I can teach you if you forget anything." Evelyn said, "If you want."

"Thank you." Ethan nodded his thanks, and at the same time, he helped Evelyn break off the Dungeness crab's crab cover, "Although I don't want to make you angry, I still want to say that reading is not enough for me now. Not much help."

"Oh...sh..."

Evelyn immediately lowered her hands and cast a disappointed look at Ethan.

Before she could swear, Ethan said with a smile on his face, "Okay! Evelyn! I know you're in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry. Because I said that for a reason."

"The field I'm interested in now, like you, is the direction of engineering. But the direction of engineering is now receiving a lot of... um...how should I put it? Is it discrimination? Or underestimation? I don't know what to do with this place. What words to use, but I know how to describe it..."

"Let me make an analogy. For example, Mi Luohua, where I have just been, as long as college students majoring in engineering come to apply, they will basically write it on their resumes. They are familiar with the magazine "Popular Electronics". And based on the above content, many sets of electronic equipment have been successfully imitated.”

"I guess you should have a better say than I do on this, right?"

Ethan looked at Evelyn with a smile.

At the same time, his finger pointed to the magazine Evelyn just read.

Those indifferent words were like a pair of invisible big hands, quietly smoothing the anger on the girl's face.

And that confident smile turned into a cloud of fog, causing the girl's brown eyes to explore, like a magnifying glass, trying to see the boy clearly.

After a while, the girl who didn't notice anything unusual sighed, smiled and shook her head.

Then he hugged the California roll and gnawed on it.

Such a situation also made Ethan snap his fingers in his heart.

Because he knew that his first step was the right one.

In fact, after learning that he traveled to America in 1975, Ethan was thinking about how to get a share in the technology field.

At the beginning, he also thought about going to university to study science knowledge and hands-on ability systematically.

But after he prepared for this and collected information in this regard, he discovered an astonishing fact.

In this era, the knowledge of America is different from the future, and it seems that it is not limited to schools!

Mi Luohua, where the original owner of the body is, gets up every year to recruit electronics engineers. The first thing they look at is not the academic qualifications of those job seekers, but whether there is any description of the magazine "Popular Electronics" in their resumes. , if there is, then let him come for an interview, if not, then look at the qualifications.

Such a strange situation made Ethan a little surprised.

Because he couldn't figure it out no matter what, why the credibility of the diplomas of major schools is not as high as that of a magazine?

But when he got a copy of the "Popular Electronics" magazine, after simply flipping through it...

The above content directly made him beep the dog!

Because that magazine wrote about how to make a three-transistor portable radio!
It's only three pages long, but it shows the reader how to combine two 2N170 NPN transistors and one 2N107 PNP transistor into a radio kit!
As long as the reader follows the circuit diagram drawn above, a radio that can receive all short-wire antennas can be made in one night!
Just looking at this is already outrageous.

And what's even more outrageous is yet to come.

If you're willing to spend a little more time, the reader can also use alligator clips to make a booster to receive further broadcast signals.

For the reception of medium-wave signals, you can also use tools such as magnetic rings, ferrite-tied antennas, etc. to adjust and search...

When Ethan finished flipping through the magazine, his whole body turned into an emoji of future generations.

Subway, old man, look at your phone.

Fuck!What kind of thing are these special codes!

At a certain moment, Ethan wondered if the place where he landed was actually America!

As a guy who has studied, lived, and worked in America, he knows better than anyone else how precious professional books are in the land of America!
Otherwise, it would be impossible for Amazon to start selling books.

When evil capitalists place an expensive value on knowledge, what they want to do is to block the public's upward channels.

And in this case, America in the 60s and [-]s actually has such a good teaching atmosphere?
Can the knowledge of radio and other aspects be publicly printed in popular magazines? ? ?
This is simply outrageous to open the door to his father, outrageous!
really!

The lighthouse before the earthquake in the East, that is the real lighthouse!
Just when Ethan was delighted with his discovery and was about to rely on this magazine to copy some things, he discovered that there were many things that he couldn't just copy if he wanted to.

For example, he couldn't figure out the difference between NPN transistors and PNP transistors.

He was born in a non-science major, and he had forgotten all about physics in middle school before time travel. He didn't know what the current generation process of IB and IC was in the field of physics, let alone what a superheterodyne circuit was.

When Ethan realized that he might not be able to copy the answers correctly, he really regretted that he studied finance in his previous life.

The biggest function of this thing is to chat with liberal arts students about science, and with science students about liberal arts——

Talk about the mountains!
He wondered even more why he didn't have a golden finger like ChatGPT4.0.

Fortunately, beside the original owner of the body, there is a guy who studies engineering.

Ethan's older sister, Evelyn, is a top student in the Stanford School of Engineering, majoring in computer science.

What's more, she's been interested in radio since she was a teenager.

For this reason, when Thomas ordered her "Popular Electronics" in 1966, he also spent a lot of money to make up for his daughter the previously published unordered magazines, and when Evelyn wanted to do it, he let Evelyn She disassembled the TV set at home and assembled it into a projector.

When this fact came out, Ethan taught himself what an idiot!Directly focus on the other party!
But judging from the current situation, this girl is not as irritable as she appears.

After nibbling a California roll, drinking a few mouthfuls of clam soup, and eating the brains of the Dungeness crab, Evelyn also wiped her mouth.

"Ethan."

"uh-huh?"

"I know what you're thinking."

"What?"

"You must have some idea, which involves the knowledge of electronics and computers, because you don't know how, so you want to ask me to do it for you."

Evelyn said affirmatively: "Don't try to deny it, we've known each other for almost 20 years, do you remember when you were in high school? You asked me to make you a walkie-talkie, the size of a slap, just to hide it scare people!"

Ethan stopped pretending when you pouted your ass and I knew what shit you were shitting on.

He spread his hands and said, "Yeah~ It seems that nothing can be hidden from you."

"Hmph!" Ethan admitted, in exchange for Evelyn's eyes.

Staring at the boy she grew up with for a few seconds, she still sighed, "Okay, I surrender, I really can't beat you! Your temper is like a cow, only God knows how to make you Turn the corner! So... tell me your idea, what do you want to do this time? I'll do it for you."

"Oh, this is really great! Evelyn, I love you!" Ethan grinned at Evelyn's retreat.

That's why he turned his eyes and began to search.

When he saw a copy of "Popular Electronics" on Evelyn's bookshelf with January 1975 printed on it, he pulled it out immediately.

After discovering that there was a square machine on it, and the code name of Altair 8800 in the upper left corner, he even pointed at the other party with a smile and said, "Can you make this kind of thing?"

"???"

Such a question made Evelyn frowned.

The next second, after catching the smile in Ethan's pupils, knowing that she had been tricked, she directly picked up the Dungeness crab's shell and threw it at the boy viciously.

"Oh Ethan! Did you mean it? Get lost!"

　Note: ①The influence of "Popular Electronics" in reality is even more exaggerated than what I wrote. Almost all engineers who came out in the 80s have subscribed, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, David Gross, winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics.The radio production in this article is from the May 5 issue.

　　
　
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