"First, this is just a driver, what about fonts? Second, the technical content is too low, easy to be imitated, and a lot of competition will make you die ugly. "And this thing is not cheap, the printer is still Japanese, you just transferred from Toshiba, a high-end product, to Oki, an unknown product." When the devil knows that you have released this product, the price will rise immediately if you believe it or not, and you will not have any rut at all. ”

Wang Ji's face was like dirt, and an old "door" sweated: "I also know that I am already working on the font, and it will be completed in half a month, but the printer really has no way." ”

Thinking of China's industrial base, Wang Jizhi couldn't help but be gloomy, and his words hit him hard for a long time. Wang Jizhi is quiet on the outside, but he is actually hot inside, he is really fed up with the automation research institute, and he wants to make a career by himself.

It just so happened that he also worked in the early computer development team, and he was familiar with the database and ordstar, and his keen eye made him discover the shortcomings of ordstar's lack of support for Chinese. At that time, he saw this market and wanted to engage in a Chinese print. At the time, the concept was vague, but I had the idea.

Wang An is a good friend with him, and he happens to have some savings, and he is also optimistic about this brother's career, so he takes it out to support his buddy's work. I never thought that the beginning was very smooth, but the consumption was very large, and I couldn't stand it when I saw that little money, so I thought that I had to find a backer.

At that time, it was not as smooth as it is now, and the master with a lot of money in his hand was everywhere, and the only way out at that time was to apply to the above, if the character was enough, maybe a project could be done.

But this is desperate, and in most cases it is impossible to happen, you are a little technician who has no fame, and you still want money?

This is the sadness of the technicians at that time, but it is also a fortunate thing, if it were not for this, the legendary story of those heroes in the 80s who "forced" to Liangshan would not have happened, and what we see now can only be a history of the decline of computer technology, it is they who let us know that we have also resisted.

Getting back to the point, the illusion was broken, and Wang Jizhen was there in a silent daze, looking like everything was over. And Wang An is *** lake, he secretly looked at him for a long time, but saw that his old man was smiling, immovable, and looked like a bamboo in his chest.

Wang An was relieved, but asked: "Fortunately, I gave the expert a palm, otherwise we would have to pay for this coffin." Since Mr. Cao's eyes are like torches, how can this kind of drawback be resolved?"

Chang said with a smile: "If the technical investment is not enough, then race in it, and the price is still expensive, then reduce the cost, just these two." ”

Wang Jizhi said with a bitter face: "We are almost out of money for food now, what kind of investment do we have." ”

Wang An laughed out loud and slapped Xiao Wang: "My stupid brother, the ready-made God of Wealth is here, and you are still burning incense." ”

Wang Ji questioned the 'confusion' and said: "But didn't Professor Cao say that he didn't invest in this? There are many technical problems in it. ”

Wang An couldn't cry or laugh, and couldn't wait to throw him on the street, so he couldn't be so open-minded: "Mr. Cao is the master of the world, and the handling of Chinese is your master's, what are you worried about." ”

Wang Jizhen suddenly realized, but he couldn't say a word of excitement, and looked at it anxiously for a long time.

sighed for a long time: "Actually, it's very simple, you can tell me about your ideas and progress first." ”

Wang Jizhi suddenly came to his 'spirit' spirit, said his work again, and shook his head after listening for a long time.

"No, no, it's too little. "I didn't do anything at all." But this is a good way to make a font, and it's really up to you to come up with it. ”

This chessboard is a local method used by Wang Jizhi and they are so suffocated, to make the printer really print Chinese characters, there must be a font library, but at present, only Peking University has a complete set of Chinese character fonts, but where will they be given. Therefore, Wang Jizhi had no choice but to make a Go chessboard, use the chess pieces to place them into a Chinese character dot matrix, and then input them into the computer.

Not to mention, the earth method of steelmaking, not fast and light, one person to set up chess pieces, one person to use hexadecimal encoding, half of it was done in half a month.

After pondering for a long time, Wang Jizhi thought that he was worried about the matter of the font library, and said: "Professor Cao, doesn't Peking University have a font bank, you just have to do it and take it." ”

Chang shook his head: "No, the commercial products we want to make, it will be okay to use other people's things rashly for a while, and there will be a lot of trouble when we really make money." Your method is very good, and you can make do with it for now. ”

"Actually, it's all trivial. Wang Jizhi said, "The main problem is that I haven't figured it out, the current display terminal is 25 lines of English characters, I really can't find a way to display Chinese and be compatible with English." ”

"Oh, that's easy, just open a buffer in the display memory. "It was a long and easy solution to this problem.

I thought about it for a long time about how to get this typewriter system, and to be honest, I had seen this thing for a long time, but I never thought about what it looked like inside. According to the long-standing traditional idea, it is to integrate a motherboard, on which the processor, a number of storage, an external monitor, then a keyboard, and preferably a floppy disk drive, which is perfect.

Well, it's another microcomputer.

This doesn't work, shake your head for a long time, and deny it. The microcomputer supports the Chinese character system is generally 'inserted' a Chinese card, and then equipped with software, why not go the other way, a Chinese card integrated on the simplest processing system, the display directly uses one or two lines of LCD screen, the processor uses its own large-scale production of 8-bit 021, with a number of dynamic memory, a number of read-only memory, and even the "operation" system is saved.

In the long mind, a 'delicate' typewriter slowly took shape, like a machine the size of an electronic scale, with a slightly inclined keyboard and a small LCD screen on top. The machine is also divided into grades, showing one line of Chinese characters is the low-end, two lines of Chinese characters are the mid-range machine, the built-in floppy drive is the highest level of goods, and the others can be connected to an external cassette tape to store data.

At this point, he picked up the pen for a long time and confidently drew a sketch of the design on the paper, accompanied by a simple structural drawing, and explained it to Wang Ji in detail.

Wang Ji's jaw fell, and he finally saw the demeanor of the great god again, and there was a design so simple, although he was surprised, he quickly entered the corner, and kept asking questions with a long explanation.

It's so cool, the questions I asked were answered one by one, and the difficulties that I couldn't figure out were resolved in a few words, this kind of refreshing feeling was unprecedented, Wang Jizhi thought he was back in college.

Wang Jizhi is not blindly asking, this thing has a vague impression in his mind, but he is limited by knowledge and habits, and has not had a clear idea. For a while, inspiration erupted, and a series of ideas were proposed.

For a long time, he was also surprised and delighted, this was just something he made up with the imagination in his head, but it was changed by Wang Ji, and he became more and more mature.

The two had a very heated discussion, and the time had to leave in a hurry by themselves. But Wang An is bitter, he was ignored several times, and seeing that it was dark, he left the two who fell into the devil and went to the street to buy some food to prepare dinner.

I had a good chat with Wang Jizhen for a long time, and I was about to end, but I smelled the smell of 'meat', and my stomach suddenly thundered. The two turned their heads to see that Wang An was standing there with a large bag of cooked food: "I said the second master, it's not too early, is it okay to eat." ”

Chang smiled and said, "Quasi!"

Buddhists do not believe in the mandate of heaven, they only talk about the law of fate, and only fate can get together. I have been secretly glad for a long time that I had burned so much incense in my previous life, and I was able to meet so many cattle in this life.

The three of them chatted during the banquet, and Wang An talked about how he had found Hong Kong people to sponsor research and development, and even the company name was named, but in the end it was not negotiated.

For a long time, he asked casually, "What's the name?" ”

"Sitong, business is prosperous and all over the world, take a mouth. Wang An replied with a smile.

“！！”

No wonder, no wonder...... With the first 500,000 funds in place, within a few days, Sitong Electronics was listed in Zhongguancun, of course, only Wang Anis, Wang Jizhi and a few technicians of the iron rod, to develop the finished typewriter.

I have long believed that Wang Jizhen, the future chief engineer of Sitong, only set the goal of completion except for the first day's 'handover' talk, and then completely stopped talking about development.

Although the fund of 500,000 yuan is a 'hair' in the long run, it is undoubtedly a life-saving money for the newborn Sitong. Originally, in order to develop the two kings who were about to eat, the poor suddenly trembled, and Wang Jiqian, who was undecided, also gave up the idea of waiting for the approval of the report of the automation institute, and directly handed in the resignation and concentrated on his own development.

"Regardless of whether the institute approves it or not, I'm done!" Wang Jizhen said categorically to the former leaders, and still joined the Sitong Company.

Soon after, Wang Jizhen learned from a friend that he and several colleagues had been removed from the automation institute, and the iron job bowl was gone.