April 8, at the Apple Computer Show in New York.

In order to open up the fame of Apple's second-generation enhanced computer in one fell swoop, Jobs not only invited the world's first-class scientific magazines and weeklies, but also spared no effort to invite Konrad Chuzer, the father of digital computers, and the German inventor.

Speaking of Conrad Chuzer, we have to mention the fathers of the American computer, Motorley and Eckatki. They invented the computer called "Egnac" in 1946, almost a decade after Chuze. However, not long after the end of World War II, the Germans were not very popular with the Americans, so when they were publicized, the American media always identified Motorley and Eckatki as the inventors of computers.

Until the early 60s, after Germany's precision machine tool technology became famous in the world, some people slowly discovered that the first person to invent the computer was the German inventor Konrad Chuze.

This led to indignation in the media and the public at the time, with some insisting that the father of the computer must be an American, and definitely not a German. In June 1975, on the cover of the authoritative American weekly "Science", a photo of Conrad Chuzer was published, which affirmed that he was the first person to invent the digital computer, which made everyone shut up.

However, despite the evidence given by authoritative institutions, there are still many activists who believe that the only people who invented computers were Americans.

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At nine o'clock in the morning, the Apple computer exhibition site was full of people. Not only journalists and media came to interview and report, but also many ordinary people who are interested in computers came to visit Apple's new second-generation computer.

Not long ago, more than a dozen newspapers in the United States were promoting Apple's second-generation computers, and even people who were not interested in computer technology more or less learned that such a new product had come out.

In the exhibition center, Jobs and David were surrounded by a group of reporters as soon as they walked out of the backstage.

Dozens of reporters rushed to interview Jobs, hoping to get first-hand information, and one of them shouted: "Mr. Jobs, Mr. Jobs, I'm a reporter for Scientific American, what is the difference between your company's new Apple second-generation computer and the previous generation?"

As soon as he heard that it was a heavyweight scientific magazine like Scientific American, Jobs stopped, turned back to the man and smiled: "Originally, I was going to wait for the exhibition to officially start before I was interviewed, but since you asked, then I will briefly explain to you! Apple's second-generation computer is not only more functional than the first-generation computer, but also the world's most modern generation of computer, and it has more functions than any previous computer product!"

When a group of reporters heard this answer, their eyes immediately lit up, this is a big gimmick, and the report will definitely cause heated discussions in the scientific community, and some people immediately asked, "Mr. Jobs, do you mean that the second generation of Apple is the best computer product in the world?"

"You'll find out later. Jobs smiled mysteriously, turned around and led David straight to the exhibition in front of him.

It didn't take long for Jobs and David to find Huo Yaowen and his wife who were visiting the exhibition, and when they were about to step forward, a staff member suddenly ran to him and muttered a few words.

"Okay, I see. After hearing this, Jobs nodded, found Huo Yaowen and said, "Boss, Mr. Conrad Chuze is here, do you want to go and see him?"

"Okay. Huo Yaowen is still very interested in Chu Ze, who invented the computer, after all, this kind of cross-era product can be invented in the 30s, which is incredible.

After a while, Huo Yaowen and Jobs walked backstage, and at a glance they saw an old man with white hair but full of energy, he was wearing a well-fitting suit, and his hair was also very delicately groomed, and it could be seen that Chu Ze attached great importance to coming to the United States to participate in the Apple Computer Exhibition.

As if he had seen an idol, Jobs ignored the big boss beside him, quickly stepped forward and shook Chu Ze's hands, and said quite excitedly: "Mr. Chu Ze is so happy to see you!"

"Hello Mr. Jobs, it's also my pleasure to meet you. Chu Ze smiled politely, he had no idea who Jobs was before he was invited to the United States.

Jobs seemed to be very excited in his heart, held Chu Ze's hand and kept it, and said a little incoherently: "Mr. Chu Ze, you don't know, I was very interested in computers when I was in middle school, especially in 1965, I saw the process of your invention of computers, I feel that you are simply one of the greatest inventors of this century!"

"Mr. Jobs, you are too famous, I just do a little more than others, think a little more than others. Seeing that Jobs was so excited, Chu Ze was also very happy, after all, there was such a junior who admired him and was praised as the greatest inventor, how could he not be happy.

After a while, Jobs eased his excitement, remembering that the boss was still behind, he hurriedly introduced: "Mr. Chu Ze, this is Evan Huo, the chairman of our Apple company." ”

Huo Yaowen stretched out his hand and stepped forward politely: "Hello Mr. Chu Ze, I have heard your name for a long time, but I didn't expect to have the honor to meet you today." ”

"Mr. Evan, I have admired your name for a long time. ”

Compared with Jobs, Huo Yaowen's popularity is still very high, Chu Ze seems to have read his book, and said with a smile when shaking hands: "I have read several science fiction books written by you, Mr. Evan, especially the book "Virtual Second World", which is my favorite. Although virtual reality technology has been proposed for a long time, there are still very few people who write in such detail as you and give a scientific hypothesis. Especially when I read your book, I felt as if this virtual technology was the same as the real thing. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled: "Where, it's just an illusion, if you want to really realize it, you still need an inventor like Mr. Chu Ze." ”

Chu Ze definitely couldn't guess that Huo Yaowen is a person who has personally experienced VR technology, although VR technology is still not perfect after a few decades, but in general it is still very powerful, like some clever VR technology in addition to the sense of touch and smell, but in sight and hearing, it has made great progress.

"No, no, a good science fiction writer is often able to bring a new kind of science fantasy to people. ”

Chu Ze said with a smile: "The book "Virtual Second World", I think it is written about a kind of science fantasy that is most likely to be realized, that is, the computer is interconnected. Not long ago, I heard a friend mention that the U.S. government is going to make a custom standard for Ethernet, and then it will set up a regional Ethernet to facilitate the interconnection between computers. ”

Hearing the word Ethernet, Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, isn't this a local area network? Although when he was a child, he often played games such as CS and Red Alert with the children at the next table in the computer room without Internet access, but the local area network is only a local area network, and the only thing that can really connect personal computers all over the world is the Internet.

Huo Yaowen shook his head and said: "I know about Ethernet, but the network interconnection mentioned in my book is not Ethernet. ”

"Isn't it Ethernet?" Chu Ze frowned, in his opinion, Ethernet is a modern technology that communicates personal computers, isn't this considered computer interconnection?

In addition to Anna not understanding, Jobs and David on the side and the other two people brought by Chu Ze were all surprised, you must know that this year, almost all the scientific magazines in the world with names and surnames are reporting on Ethernet, a local area network technology, in the eyes of the public, this is a very modern Internet communication technology, almost no different from what is written in Huo Yao's book.

"Although I don't know much about Ethernet, I have read a little article on this before, and I know that Ethernet has strong limitations and there is no way to realize the interconnection of computers around the world. When I first wrote this book, I thought that there was an Internet technology that would connect personal computers around the world, and that people across the ocean could send information to the United States in just a few seconds, and that would be the real Internet. ”

In fact, to put it bluntly, Ethernet technology is the predecessor of the Internet, but in this era, everyone is limited by technical problems, and can only interconnect computers regionally, and it is too far away. Moreover, the concept of the Internet existed as early as the 60s, but at that time everyone only thought it was a kind of scientific enjoyment.

"Internet ......" Chu Ze thought for a while, seemed to remember something, and said with a smile: "I remember, in the 60s, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published an article called "Online Human-Computer Communication", in which the concept of "giant network" was proposed, envisioning that everyone could quickly obtain data and information from any location through a globally interconnected facility. ”

"Well, yes, I think about the same thing as him. Huo Yaowen smiled and didn't say anything more.

He only now found out that chatting with these real tech bigwigs is still very stressful, although he knows a lot of things in the future, but he doesn't know anything about all kinds of computer technology, so it's better to talk less.

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