Although it is said that my set of human resources system of "annual merit sequence" has been sprayed by people in later generations.

It is said that this kind of system has caused the economy to lack sustained growth across generations, social rigidity, seniority, and class mobility......

However, we have to admit that at least in 1979, the shortcomings of this human resources system did not have time to manifest themselves, and they were even the main driving force behind the explosive growth in the more than 20 years before the post-war reconstruction.

Because those who have been instilled to "be loyal to the factory and love the society for a lifetime" are not old, and are even at the age of being able to exert creativity.

The "loyalty" shown by Tomohiro Xijiao at this moment is a microcosm of it.

Fifteen years ago, there was no electronics industry at the time, and Tomohiro Nishikaku, who only knew a little about machinery and woodworking, originally worked in a traditional toy factory, but unfortunately the factory finally closed down due to the changes of the times.

Later, it was Arai's predecessors who introduced him to Taidong Electric Appliances, who was unemployed, and he didn't even have a professional and technical assessment, and directly gave him the opportunity to learn mechanical and electrical and electronic knowledge on his own at work from scratch, and engage in pachinko machines, slot machines, and electric racing machines.

Arai-kun is now the head of the marketing department, and he will never forget the kindness of Tomohiro Nishikaku, and he vows to work hard for the rest of his life to repay it, which is similar to the ancient bushido.

Therefore, Xijiao did not hesitate to refuse Gu Ao's private persuasion: "Gu Sang, if you have any intention of cooperating with our agency, please go to the head of the marketing department, Arai Sadachi, to talk to him on official business, as long as Minister Arai says, I will do it, I do not accept all foreign cooperation here." ”

Of course, it is impossible for Gu Biao to go to Minister Arai, it will be easy to arouse the vigilance of the other party, and if the project is tentatively restarted, everything will be bad.

So Gu Biao said coldly:

"If I go to him, with his permission, he'll just ask for a high price and ask us if we want to buy the rights to the design and software — and we'll turn around and leave, because your design and software aren't perfect, you can't use it directly, you have to change it. Your software copyright itself is not valuable, I just think the source code can be salvaged. ”

When Tomohiro Nishikaku heard these words, he was slightly shaken.

He was still confident in his design, but that was based on the fact that it was first made. Because of technological progress and the iteration of components on the market, after more than half a year, it is obvious that we can do better by following up on the design.

But because the project was delayed by the company, he now has a new job at hand, which is to develop a new electric one, so he can't spare time.

If these two Chinese are really interested in only a half-finished source code, then after finding the marketing department, maybe they will really mess things up.

There are not many technicians who want their hard work to end up in a scrap warehouse. Especially those who are tech enthusiasts, they see the results as if they were their own sons.

Gu Biao was keenly aware of Tomohiro Xijiao's pain, and decided to take the risk of revealing one or two technical points to be improved in order to destroy the other party's confidence-

He can't confide in them all, because many of them are prophetic ideas that he has obtained by virtue of the insights of later generations, and they are very valuable. Once it's all said, Tomohiro Nishikaku will be able to bypass him and change the design directly.

But it can't be completely disclosed, because if you don't say anything, you can't prove the correctness of Gu Biao's point of view, and you can't prove that "your current semi-finished product is a piece of garbage, and it is impossible to sell it without drastic changes".

"I'll just say an improvement - when you designed the circuit board of this video game console, the CPU you planned to use was still Intel's 8080, right? That's because there was almost no product on the market in '78 that could replace it in terms of function.

However, now more than a year later, Zilog's Z80 chip, which was developed specifically to snipe Intel, has also been mass-produced. The cost of a single chip is at least dozens of dollars cheaper, but the function is comparable.

The instruction sets and codes of the two chips themselves are completely different, and if you want to change this thing to Z80-CPU to reduce costs, you have to port almost all the code. So if nothing else, the marketing department will not be willing to waste this energy without knowing the future potential - who knows how much it will sell in the future?

The Minister Arai will definitely do another market research, and the result of the market research is that the song has been transferred once. ”

The reason why Gu Biao chose this point is obviously deliberate.

Because this is the most "physically work" improvement, it does not require a "flash of inspiration". Even if he doesn't mention it, West Point is easy to think of it himself, so he can only hit the morale of the other party without worrying about leaks.

The West Cape was demoralized.

The project was delayed for more than half a year, and he could already imagine the helpless conservatism of Arai's predecessors.

"Then what do you want?" Tomohiro Nishikaku decided to be a little more flexible, and it would be okay to listen to the other party's conditions anyway.

Gu Biao smiled kindly: "I only need your circuit design and source code, and I will make another big change after taking it." I can give you 1 million yen. In addition, you can prepare 500,000 yen for Mr. Arai, and you can think of a suitable method and name for yourself. ”

The economic situation in '79 was very good, but there was still some gap between prices and their peaks.

As a backbone engineer, Tomohiro Nishikaku's monthly salary is 150,000 yen, and Gu Ao's offer is only equivalent to half a year's salary.

"This is impossible, the company has invested more than this price in human resources for this project - I personally spent far more than half a year of energy!"

"3 million yen! That's 12,000 dollars. Gu Biao was not angry, and immediately gave a second offer.

His first sentence just now was just to test the cost of the other party, and Tomohiro Nishikaku was obviously not a technical nerd who didn't know much about human feelings, so he was tried out immediately. Gu Biao's second offer was about twice as high as the cost of the other party.

Tomohiro Nishikaku was silent this time and did not deny it immediately.

Gu Biao hurriedly continued to persuade from other angles: "Xijiaojun, you also know that I will have to do transplants and major changes after I take it, so the final product will definitely not be any line of the same as your current source code."

Software Copyright Laws around the world emphasize that only the code itself is protected, not the design ideas and algorithms behind the software. So you won't be exposed to anything, and at the same time it's not plagiarism, it's just 'borrowing'.

In the future, if 'flowers bloom in the wall and fragrance outside the wall', you can also take this game and continue to take it directly to production and win profits for the company. At the same time, maybe your personal vision and status in the society will skyrocket because of this time.

Besides, I may not be able to succeed, and I am taking the risks. Of course, even if I succeed, I have absolutely no intention of saying bad things about Mr. Arai, he didn't make any mistakes, he was just old, and we young people dared to bet. ”

These words are already very empathetic and resonate with the other party.

After some haggling, the price of the private deal was finally set at a total price of 4 million yen - Tomohiro Nishikaku would get the equivalent of $15,000, and he would set up the rest of the fraction to set up a project to check the interior.

It's not that Gu Biao can't afford more, but he is well versed in psychology, and he is afraid that after more output, he will arouse the vigilance of the other party and take the initiative to resurrect this project again.

Of course, Gu Biao also had to confirm the circuit board of his experimental prototype and ensure that the program fired inside fit the source code.

Originally, this kind of thing is difficult to do in a company, and there will definitely be layers of confidentiality measures.

But who let the "Space Invaders" program have been abandoned in Taidong Electric.

The technical legacy of a deprecated project is naturally not much to be paid attention to. In addition, there is only one core technician in the whole project of Xijiao Youhong, and he applied for the project himself, so no one restrained him.

In the early days of the video game industry, many games were designed by one person, and there was no teamwork at all, because they all added up to less than 20,000 lines of code, so there was no need for collaboration.

Even the programming, sound effects, and art are all done by one person. In "Space Invaders", even the pixel drawings of the octopus-like alien monsters were drawn by Tomohiro Nishikaku himself on graph paper and then filled in the code.

It is not surprising that Taidong Electric has lost its monitoring of such a "one-man show" type of abandoned project.

……

Gu Biao was a code farmer in his last life, and he mainly used C++ in his work. However, he studied electrical engineering in school as an undergraduate, so he is quite familiar with the application of programmable devices such as microcontrollers/PLCs.

When I was studying in my previous life, the old-fashioned things of 8086/Z80 have been defined as "single-chip microcomputer" to use, because they are cheap, Gu Biao will only use this kind of thing to do some simple industrial control when he graduates, such as the control board of the elevator.

And in '79, these things were really treated as "CPUs".

But in any case, Gu Biao's common sense of application of these "single-chip microcomputers" is still there.

It has been more than two years since he traveled to this era, and he finally came into contact with the things that were closest to his old business in his previous life, and he was naturally not afraid of Xijiao Youhong.

In fact, even if he doesn't buy the code of Tomohiro Nishikaku, as long as he inspires Gu Biao with the design idea of "Space Invaders", asks him to dive in, spend 3 months familiar with the programming environment of this era, and spend another 3 months writing it himself, he can write a better game.

It's just that Gu Biao knows that his time is valuable, so he won't spend half a year in retreat to focus on this matter.

Why waste half a year on something that can be solved with more than 10,000 dollars?

Another main reason why Gu Biao needs to buy Xijiao Yuhong Design is that Gu Biao does not know much about circuit board design - and even if he studied circuit board design in later generations, it is all designed with PROTEL software with a high degree of intelligent self-test. It was too difficult to let him draw the circuit board design directly by hand.

It's definitely harder than "once you're used to drawing mechanical drawings in CAD, go back and draw them by hand". Because PROTEL will at least check for a lot of low-level errors in the circuit.

As for whether the circuit board designs of the two sides will be similar in the future and cause legal lawsuits, Gu Biao is not worried - because when the first electronic arcade machine was launched, Gu Biao was purely rushing to make a pot of gold and exercise the team by the way, and did not plan to make any brand reputation.

The reputation of this "first" in terms of play, there is nothing to grab, at least for a few decades, it will not be glorious. The domestic policy of repression of the game industry and the tone of "not doing business" are by no means easy to reverse.

Gu Biao still prefers to put himself in the posture of a defender of "resisting cultural invasion", so that the pressure of the future environment will be less.

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