Chapter 338: PC and Chicken

Seeing Wei Ming interested in the things on the table, Li Aiguo said: "My dad bought it for me, as a reward for my successful cooperation with you this time. Don't look at this as a computer, but it's actually not expensive. This set is less than two thousand dollars."

The white machine on the table at this time is called ibm5150, also known as "ibmpc5150".

PC, personal computer, the popularity of this word started with this computer. Since then, mankind has truly entered the personal computer era.

This monitor, this host, this keyboard, there is no difference from the personal computers of later generations.

In the past, companies like ibm and apple also launched so-called personal computers, but ibm5150 is epoch-making in terms of volume and price.

Originally, ibm expected to sell 200,000 units in five years, but it reached a sales volume of 240,000 units in one year.

Coupled with its open architecture and software and hardware ecosystem, it spawned the compatible machine industry, directly promoted the popularization of pc, and since then pc has truly entered thousands of households.

And along with ibmpc into the market was Microsoft's ms-dos operating system. Microsoft also officially entered the operating system business and officially took off.

However, the playability of personal computers at this time is too poor, and the application programs are pitifully few. Now Microsoft hasn't even figured out word and excel.

"So why did your dad buy such a big guy and bring it to China from thousands of miles away?" Wei Ming was curious.

"My dad said that when computers are small enough to enter thousands of households, the trend of the world will definitely revolve around it, so I must learn computers well, just as important as learning a foreign language." Li Aiguo said.

Wei Ming nodded: "I thought of the same thing as your dad."

Subsequently, Li Aiguo also invited Wei Ming to operate this antique machine in Wei Ming's eyes. This pc is still relatively strange to Wei Ming. He played with computers in the late 90s, and they were all Lenovo assembly machines.

Wow, this keyboard is heavy enough, Wei Ming weighed it, almost five catties, the weight of a laptop in the future.

The mouse was invented long ago, but there is no mouse here. At this time, the mouse has just started commercial use, and it will have to wait until apple carries it forward.

Because Microsoft hasn't made word and excel yet, this pc now uses the spreadsheet software visicale and the text input software easywriter. Wei Ming mainly tried the typing function.

Not only can it create new documents, but it can also edit and print. If he writes English novels, it is much more convenient than using paper and pen.

Wei Ming couldn't help but be moved.

Then he went downstairs and borrowed the gatekeeper's phone to call the Production Management Office.

"Uncle, you are at work, that's great, can you come to Spoon Garden New Building, show you something good."

While waiting for Wei Ping'an, Li Aiguo also showed Wei Ming the reports about him. Wei Ming saw Elton John from the UK, Paul McCartney from the former Beatles, and Michael Jackson from the US all gave him high evaluations.

Li Aiguo couldn't help but be curious about when Wei Ming planned to write his third song.

"I heard from my dad that mca attaches great importance to the cooperation with you."

Wei Ming pointed to his head: "The melody here has been emptied by that charity evening. I want to write novels more now."

However, after writing "In the Heat of the Sun," Wei Ming fell into confusion about the topic again. Let's fill the pit of the "Jurassic" trilogy first.

Wei Ming chatted with Li Aiguo, and a few international students who returned early came over, men and women.

Fang Zheng as Wei Ming was switching between English and Chinese to talk to international students, Wei Ping'an came over.

Wei Ming immediately let him see ibm5150.

"This is a computer?"

"Yes, personal computer, the new model released by ibm this month, Li Aiguo bought one and brought it over."

Wei Ping'an sat down immediately, not unfamiliar with typing on the keyboard.

Last year, the Department of Computer Science and Technology recruited a short-term software training class. After Uncle Ping'an opened the Founder Company with Professor Wang Xuan, he became an auditing student of this short-term training class, frantically absorbing computer-related knowledge. At this time, he might be more professional than Wei Ming.

"This, this is too convenient! How much is this?"

Li Aiguo said: "The price excluding the graphics card and black and white monitor is 1565 dollars."

Several international students from poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America heard this price and immediately stayed away from the computer. This is simply an astronomical price, can't afford it, can't afford it!

However, Wei Ping'an said: "This is not expensive."

He had been in contact with some so-called personal computers before, and the price was much higher than this.

After walking out of Spoon Garden, Wei Ping'an asked his nephew: "Do you want the school to purchase a batch of such computers to strengthen the strength of the computer department?"

Wei Ming shook his head: "What I think is, can Founder do this kind of pc by himself? The market in this area should have great potential."

"Ah, we do it ourselves? The technological content of this thing should be very high, right?" Wei Ping'an instinctively thought the difficulty was great.

"Technological content must be there, but it is not as unattainable as you think, and it must take the road of assembly at the beginning, testing the level of craftsmanship."

Lenovo started selling pc in 1989, but before Lenovo, there was a Great Wall brand computer. They developed China's first microcomputer Great Wall 0520ch in 1985.

So given Wei Ming's understanding of the future, he made such a suggestion to Uncle Ping'an, but it still had to be decided by the leadership team, and he didn't say for sure that it would make money.

Because this matter is first of all a huge investment, school-run units like Peking University Founder may not have such great courage to invest.

Second, even if it is done, whether the company can succeed in the end is another matter.

Great Wall and Lenovo developed their own computers one after another, but the former's background was so hard, but it ended in bankruptcy. Lenovo almost became a synonym for national enterprises in the early 21st century, and finally acquired ibm's pc department in turn.

So it is not that starting early will definitely laugh last.

The suggestion has been given, and Wei Ming even mentioned a Chinese American named Wang An, who is also the future richest Chinese in the world. Wang An Computer was once popular in the United States.

Although he refused to develop such products because of strategic mistakes when ibm was vigorously developing personal computers, thus failing to catch up with the new trend, the technical accumulation of Wang An Computer Company was still good. If Founder wants to do pc, he can try to contact it.

Of course, Mr. Ni Guangnan is also an indispensable key figure. Lenovo's start-up relies on him, but he is still a visiting researcher abroad at this time, so he can be pressed for now.

Seeing ibm5150 today, Wei Ming had a feeling that a new era was about to open.

So after returning home, he opened the manuscript paper, wrote a new story of "Black Cat Detective," and prepared to continue popularizing computer and Internet concepts in it.

The huge potential of the computer market, the Internet is indispensable, and the popularity of the Internet has also made computers a necessity for young people before the smartphone era.

However, the Internet in the strict sense has not been born yet. Wei Ming's behavior is a science fiction prophecy, but then again, many people treat "Black Cat Detective" as science fiction.

For example, 10-year-old Ma Huateng in Hainan, who longs for the starry sky and loves science, "Black Cat Detective" taught him many novel animal knowledge.

As for his parents saying that Wei Ming is Wei Ming, and he raised 150 million HKD for the Sichuan disaster area, this is not what he can understand.

This day, the August issue of "Children's Literature" that little Huateng has been waiting for was finally mailed through the post office.

Open the directory, the most prominent in the fairy tale column is Wei Ming's "Black Cat Detective" and Zheng Yuanjie's "Cube Building."

The cube on his desk was bought because he read "Cube Building."

First look at "Black Cat Detective." The title of this chapter is very interesting, called "Laying Egg Rooster."

It tells the story of a rooster who lost an egg and went to the forest police station to report the crime. However, his testimony had problems. He said that the egg was laid by himself and was very important to himself, and the new police in the station, Judy the rabbit from Rabbit Village, suspected that the egg was stolen by the rooster, and he was a thief shouting to catch a thief.

Little Huateng smiled, how can a rooster lay eggs, it must be stolen.

But the rooster refused to explain why he, a rooster, could lay eggs, so the reporter was temporarily detained and became a suspect.

Later, it was Black Cat Detective who took action. He visited his informant, the red fox Nick, who had been in prison, now turned over a new leaf, and was resourceful.

Nick told the detective a secret of the chicken coop based on his years of experience in eating chickens.

It turns out that hens can turn into roosters!

When there is no rooster in a chicken flock, the eggs laid by these hens cannot be fertilized and cannot hatch chicks.

In order to continue the ethnic group, at this time, a hen needs to stand up bravely and turn herself from a hen into a rooster by adjusting her own hormones to continue the reproduction of the ethnic group.

This is what Wei Ming mentioned in "Jurassic Park" that "life will find its own way out."

And the big rooster who reported the crime was actually a hen, and that egg was the last egg she laid when she was a hen, which was very commemorative.

So when the egg was lost, she was very anxious, but she was ashamed to mention that she had been a hen. After all, if her children knew, how would they look at her? Calling dad is not appropriate, calling mom is not right, calling aunt...

In short, after the truth came out, Rabbit Police Officer Judy apologized to the rooster sister, and Black Cat Detective, after careful investigation, determined that this chicken egg was most likely stolen by One Ear.

One Ear hasn't appeared for two issues, and the little readers miss him.

Later, it proved that it was indeed stolen by One Ear, and just when Black Cat Detective touched the place where it was hiding and was about to bring this tenacious villain who ran through more than a dozen issues to justice, click, the story came to an abrupt end!

Ma Huateng flipped through the last page of this story unfulfilled, but the familiar "Please see next issue" did not appear.

At the end of the story, there is a letter "Brother Wei Ming writes to children."

He told the reader children that because "Black Cat Detective" has been serialized in "Children's Literature" for a year and a half, in order to allow more excellent fairy tale works to be displayed here, starting from September, the detective's story will no longer be published in "Children's Literature."

"But don't worry, we have moved to a new home. You only need to subscribe to the newly founded "King of Fairy Tales" magazine to see the follow-up stories of "Black Cat Detective," and there is also a new fairy tale work by Brother Wei Ming. "King of Fairy Tales" is a publication specializing in serializing medium and long children's stories, welcome to subscribe!"

Behind it is the post office subscription method, and "Cube Building" also has Zheng Yuanjie's moving notice. ===== CHAPTER 339 =====

There is also a mail-order method at the back, and there is also a moving notice from Zheng Yuanjie at the back of "Magic Cube Building."