Chapter 403: The First Question
The team brought five computers, which were shipped from the United States to Hong Kong Island by sea, and then by land to Shanghai, which took a week to transport, and now the five computers are installed in a clean factory, and more than a dozen people help Wanhe start installing them.
"This is a computer?
Wang Haijun was very excited when he saw the computer.
"Brother Wang, this is the host, this is the screen, this is the keyboard, the three parts can be connected together to form a whole!"
Wan He explained on the side.
The five computers were quickly put together, and Wan He turned on the power of one computer, and the computer started up a few minutes later.
Just starting the computer made Liu Lang impatient, but Wang Haijun and several other college students watched intently, and let out an exclamation when a cursor appeared on the dark screen.
"Now I can show you how!"
Shen He sat in front of the computer and began to type out the text continuously, and after a while, he wrote an English poem, and then entered a command, and the printer connected to the host computer typed out the poem.
"Wow, that's amazing!"
Everyone cheered, and Wang Haijun looked incredible while holding the paper.
Now the country also has printers, but this kind of printer can only be printed after typesetting in lead, which needs to go through a very cumbersome procedure, where will it be completed through only one procedure like now?
"This kind of computer has been equipped in many companies in the United States, and our VIE computer is the most popular, mainly because our company's word processing system is very powerful, which can carry out decimal points, paragraph indentation, and font size expansion or contraction can be expressed without difference!"
Shen He explained to everyone.
"Decimal points, paragraph indentation? How simple is that? Can't computers express it?"
One student was amazed, this is the most basic writing ability!
"Hehe, the computer is not comparable to our human brain, our human brain is the most advanced computer, generating consciousness, analyzing problems, solving problems, each is so natural and harmonious, but don't forget, the human brain is composed of countless neurons, this neuron is equivalent to the chip of the computer, but the computer chip now only has a few thousand electronic components, you can imagine the same, if the human brain only has a few thousand neurons, what will happen? That's a fool, can't even speak, can't even think, we people just have to constantly improve the technology of computer chips, so that it is gradually close to the human brain, for example, what we are working on now is a picture processing program, I can show you!"
Shen He kept typing the language on the keyboard, and the originally black screen gradually changed, from black to gray, and then a picture slowly appeared.
Obviously, this is a picture of a high mountain, with a winding mountain silhouette, and the colors within the outline are dark in some places and lighter in some places, but they are all black and white, and there are no other colors.
"This is the image processing program we are developing now, once it is fully mature, then what you see will be a majestic mountain, the green jade on the mountain is hurriedly singing birds and flowers, once this processing program is researched by us, it will be a huge breakthrough in the chip industry!"
Shen He said very proudly.
"Image manipulator?"
Wang Haidong and the others don't seem to understand.
"Brother Shen, what is the main problem now?"
Liu Lang asked suddenly.
"Now the main problem is two points, one is the memory problem, now the storage of the computer is only 14MB, on this basis to double, the chip should be expanded accordingly twice the size, then the cost will increase a lot!"
Shen He replied.
"Fourteen MB of memory in this box?
Wang Haijun suddenly exclaimed on the side.
"I once read an article about the computer when the United States developed the atomic bomb 40 years ago, and it said that at that time, a computer with a storage capacity of only two MB weighed several tons and could only be transported by truck, but now the storage is seven times larger than that era, but the size has been reduced so much, it is amazing!"
Many people don't know what the memory is for, but Wang Haijun knows much more about computers than others, his knowledge is not even in the university textbooks, there are some books about computers in the library of Huaxia University, which are all after the reform and opening up, many overseas Chinese donated a lot of books to the country, including some related books, but these books are only to describe some computer concepts, but these books can be understood by few people in China, and there are basically no people borrowing them in the library for a yearγ
Wang Haijun found a few related books in the library of Huaxia University, and he looked at them as treasures, if not, could he understand the so-called artificial intelligence?
"Navy, you're right, that's the first generation of storage, when the United States was developing the atomic bomb, it used computers, and the computers at that time were the size of four or five rooms, and they could only calculate data, but this computing power was much more powerful than the human brain, and without these computers, the atomic bomb would have to be delayed for a year. β
Shen He nodded and said.
This Wang Haijun is really an "outlier", his understanding of computers far exceeds that of other students, and he does have the potential to become an excellent computer engineer.
Shen He and Wan He thought to themselves.
"Of course, memory is a big problem, but it's a hardware problem, and I believe there will be a major breakthrough soon!"
Liu Lang nodded and said, Apple's first personal computer will be on the market in the second half of this year, this computer indicates that the world will enter the era of personal computers, the reason why it is called a personal computer, is because the shape of the computer is greatly reduced, small enough to be placed on a table, unlike the computer of VIE Company, at least two tables are needed to place, and the weight is more than 200 catties, where will individuals use this kind of bulky computer?
Of course, Apple's personal computers did not sell very well at the beginning, the reason is the price, the price of a personal computer is more than 4,000 US dollars, and the price is almost as good as an ordinary second-hand car, even in the United States, few people will buy it, what do you buy it at home?
So during this period of time, Apple computers are sold to various universities for teaching, or bought some large companies, at this stage Apple computers have not posed a threat to VIE, but there are some people who have smelled the huge potential of computer personalization, if the chips of these computers can be designed with more functions, if the cost of these computers can be reduced, then what is the result?
The first problem is a person named Gates, and the latter problem is IBM, the two companies have worked together to promote the rapid development of personal computers, and in just two or three years, the world has been pushed to the age of computer information.
Of course, these are all things that happened in Liu Lang's previous life, and this life has been changed by him, at least what Wanhe is doing now is what Gates does.
"Brother Shen, what is your second question?"
Liu Lang asked.