Reborn in the red age

Chapter 151 Establishing your own PC company
At this time, the development of domestic microcomputers was still under secrecy, and there was not even a serious place to display it. The office and laboratory were located in the basement of a state-owned factory.

That is to say, Qingfeng Li received an invitation from the Computer Bureau and was able to enter the Microcomputer Research Laboratory.

In a small office separated from the basement, looking at the dim light above his head, Qingfeng Li sat on the sofa and quietly waited for the person in charge to arrive.

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The door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in his 30s and wearing glasses walked in from the outside.

"Hello, hello, are you Comrade Li Qingfeng? I am Yu Zhengsheng from the Sixth Institute of the Fourth Machinery Department, and I am the leader of the 05 team." After the other party came in, he immediately extended his right hand to Li Qingfeng enthusiastically.

Hearing the other party's name, Li Qingfeng was stunned and did not dare to neglect him. This was a real big shot in the future. He quickly stood up from the sofa and shook hands with the other party enthusiastically: "Hello, Comrade Yu, I am Li Qingfeng."

After the two parties got to know each other briefly, the other party stopped talking nonsense and directly stated the purpose of inviting Qingfeng Li here: "Comrade Qingfeng Li, I have read the latest issue of the computer journal, your paper on computer language. It shocked me deeply. You studied computer software in the United States. I want to know from you the latest direction of computer research in the United States."

Looking at the other party's expectant eyes, Li Qingfeng thought for a while, and instead of rushing to tell the other party about the current international research directions, he asked about the current research progress and direction of microcomputers in the six institutes.

Hearing Qingfeng Li's inquiry, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Yu Zhengsheng's face: "To be honest, we are still only keeping an eye on the progress of computers. We are short of foreign exchange. We don't even have computers from Taiwan or overseas. We can only rely on the information sent to us." The journal conducts theoretical research and has only set general research directions at present. The group I lead is studying Intel's microprocessors, and another group is studying Motorola's."

He nodded clearly. The microprocessors of these two companies are currently the two most famous series in the world. It is the right choice for the institute to use these two processors as the direction of future research and development.

After thinking briefly, Li Qingfeng said with a smile: "Comrade Yu, as the saying goes, it's better to do it than to do it. If you don't even have a computer to study computers, then why do you do research? This time I returned to China and brought an Apple ll , I can move the computer over and demonstrate to you the current mainstream software technology in the world."

"Really? That's great. To be honest, there is only one computer in the room and I haven't used it a few times." Yu Zhengsheng stood up and expressed his gratitude to Qingfeng Li.

Li Qingfeng moved very quickly, drove to the maintenance point, loaded the Apple ll that had just been unloaded into the car, and returned to Yu Zhengsheng's underground research room.

At this time, Yu Zhengsheng had summoned all the members in the research room. They were all technical people and there were not so many polite words. After briefly recognizing their names, everyone placed the Apple ll on the table that had been cleared away and plugged in the 110-volt power supply. , start up and run this computer.

First, he took out the mainstream office software on the American market and demonstrated it to everyone one by one.

After demonstrating all the software commonly used in the American market, Qingfeng Li took out a floppy disk, smiled at everyone, and said with a hint of meaning: "Everyone, the time has come to witness the miracle. Open your eyes wide and don't blink."

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, Qingfeng Li inserted the floppy disk into the floppy drive, entered a line of code, and the familiar Chinese font appeared on the monitor.

This is Qingfeng Li's Chinese version of the JB-DOS operating system. Of course, he simply translated the last four words into Chinese, which already took a lot of effort from Qingfeng Li.

The workload of translating them all into Chinese would be too much, and Qingfeng Li simply couldn't do it by himself. It would be better to wait for the Chinese Character System Research Laboratory of Peking University to produce the font library, and then use it directly.

Seeing the four Chinese characters displayed on the screen, "Fuck" in various dialects kept ringing in the small room, and everyone excitedly lay in front of the computer to check it out.

"Comrade Li, is this a system you programmed yourself?" Yu Zhengsheng pointed at the Chinese characters on the screen excitedly, unable to speak clearly.

Looking at Yu Zhengsheng who was talking excitedly, Li Qingfeng smiled slightly: "Yes, this is a system I wrote in the United States. It has been commercialized and has been put into the market with very good results. Currently, the copyright of this system has been Sold to Microsoft, it will be installed on IBM's latest generation of personal computers and used as an operating system."

Qingfeng Li did not hide it. He used Microsoft's acquisition of his copyright as an excuse to reveal IBM's most confidential personal computer research and development project to the other party based on future circumstances.

"IBM wants to develop a personal computer? Haven't they been developing mainframe computers? Our bank branch in Xiangjiang introduced their computers last year." Yu Zhengsheng was shocked by the news and quickly asked, not even having time to deal with this system. ask.

"Yes, to be precise, it should be called a personal PC. It is still a confidential project. According to some information I got from Microsoft, the personal computer currently developed by IBM in secret is an epoch-making product." At this point, Qingfeng Li paused. Thinking that Microsoft is not famous now, he explained: "Microsoft is an American company with an IBM background. They were instructed by IBM to acquire the operating system from me."

"Okay, can you tell me in detail what you know?"

"Of course, but this involves the confidentiality clause between me and Microsoft. Just don't tell anyone else." "Don't worry, after our computer is successfully developed in the future, only insiders will know about it, and your existence will never be announced to the outside world."

Next, Qingfeng Li started talking nonsense. In the name of IBM, he roughly told the other party some of the early development directions of computers, hoping to speed up the research and development of domestic computers.

After Qingfeng Li finished speaking, Yu Zhengsheng and the others immediately started the seminar based on what Qingfeng Li said.

When Qingfeng Li said goodbye, he left his mailing address in the United States and promised to provide software technical support in the development of the first domestic computer.

In fact, Qingfeng Li has planned to carry out research and development work for Windows, but compared to DOS, Windows is more difficult to write and is not a short-term job.

After Microsoft became rich, it had so many talented people that it took more than two years of research before it was officially launched on the market. If Li Qingfeng wanted to develop it by himself, it would have been impossible for him to take more than a year.

Coders at this time were real engineers. Computers did not have that much computing power or memory, so Qingfeng Li wrote a lot of wasteful code. He needed to streamline the code and streamline it again. In order to streamline the code, Qingfeng Li's hair has become In a precarious state.

After graduating from the Computer Research Institute, Li Qingfeng was very interested in accelerating the progress of the first domestic computer. He often provided his own ideas to them and followed their progress.

However, the result made Li Qingfeng a little disappointed. After the Computer Bureau held a meeting to study and discuss, he felt that what they proposed was conjecture and rejected the plan.

The deception they had a few days ago was a waste of time. It seems that we still have to follow the old path of the previous life, wait until IBM's first PC comes out, and then we will use IBM machines to develop the first computer in the country. .

It's just a pity that my Apple ll was originally intended to be taken back to my hometown. At that time, in order to support them in speeding up research and development, I donated that computer. Now I don't know if I can get it back.

"Brother, do you think this computer can be assembled the same way we assemble a TV?"

When he was thinking about how to ask for his Apple back, Wang Weimin, who was addicted to playing games next to him, asked this question.

"Of course, there's not much difference between assembling a computer and assembling a TV." Qingfeng Li, who was thinking about how to speak, answered Wang Weimin's question casually.

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Qingfeng was stunned and immediately realized, yes, if you want to accelerate domestic computer research and development, why does it have to be done by people from the Computer Bureau?

Computers can be assembled by yourself. As long as you have the corresponding accessories, it is not that difficult to assemble a computer.

The first PC released by IBM next year will be a complete assembly machine. They adopt an open architecture and do not develop their own hardware. Instead, they use a large number of common components and make the PC design public and launch a book. Technical Reference Manual.

With IBM's influence, a series of industry standards were quickly established and quickly implemented around the world, lowering the threshold for manufacturing PCs.

Great Wall's first domestically produced machine was also an assembled machine. All parts were imported from Xiangjiang and assembled domestically. The only domestically produced thing that can be called self-produced may be the Chinese version of DOS developed in cooperation with Microsoft.

After thinking about it, Qingfeng Li slapped his thigh hard. Since you don't make progress, I won't play with you anymore. The title of the first domestically produced computer falls on me.

Hardware problems can be solved in the United States, and software can be solved by itself. Then you can set up a computer company in the United States, import parts and assemble them domestically, quickly promote the localization of computers, and bring finished machines to the United States with low costs. Compete with IBM and Microsoft.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you patting your thigh?" Wang Weimin, who was playing computer games, heard the noise behind him and quickly turned to look at Qingfeng Li.

Li Qingfeng looked at Wang Weimin with burning eyes and said loudly: "Okay, you are really a talent. Wait for me here while I go out."

After saying that, Qingfeng Li picked up the car keys and hurriedly drove out to Peking University. Producing the first computer in the country was not something that Qingfeng Li could do alone. He needed to seek help from the school.

(End of this chapter)