Chapter 28: Magic Change
Yang Hao and Lu Yunda looked at Gu Biao with slightly curious eyes, and they still couldn't hide their distrust in their eyes.
They are all at the same level as Gu Min, but they are all several years older than Gu Min.
Yang Hao graduated from high school in 75, or a three-year program, after graduation, because his father was still a little related, he entered the factory as a skilled worker for two years before taking the college entrance examination. Now he is 24 years old, he is very solid in his studies, and he has a lot of knowledge in technical practice, and he is a well-known honor student in the Department of Mathematics.
Lu Yunda of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is 22 years old, a fresh graduate under the 532 school system, and has just graduated half a year to catch up with the resumption of the college entrance examination, so he has never been to the countryside and has no work experience. His family members all work in the West Lake Electronics Factory, so he took the college entrance examination to report the major, obviously planning to take over the recruitment of technical cadres in the future.
This kind of life is destined for them to feel that they are proud of their sons of heaven, and their futures are bright - how valuable are the 77-level college students now, there is a consensus in the society, they have solid skills, good professionalism, and a little bit of a foundation at home, and they will not soar to the sky in the future.
Now, he was found by Gu Mintuo to assist a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy?
Although I heard that this teenager is a much more powerful existence than them in the college entrance examination, and he is a gifted student of the Beijing Foreign Affairs University.
But they still feel that "there is a specialization in the art industry", coupled with the gap in practical experience for so many years, Gu Biao should not be worthy of instructing them on the specific way of doing things.
Gu Biao saw it in his eyes and knew that he couldn't stop these two people without taking out some dry goods and benefits.
"Brother Yang, Brother Lu, there is a bit of private work here, and I won't let you suffer, as long as it is completely done within a month, 1,000 yuan per person will be paid on the spot, and there will be no ambiguity. Here is a deposit of 300 yuan, you can read the content, say the evaluation opinion, I think you can give it on the spot. β
The first step, of course, is to talk about money first, who will mix with you if you don't have money. If these people can really get things done, Gu Biao will naturally have more interests to bind them, but he can't say too much at first, so as not to scare them.
The two of them were really slightly surprised.
1,000 yuan is already a price that technicians in coastal provincial towns can understand in 79 years.
Although he relies on the salary of state-owned enterprises, it takes at least a year and a half to save enough 1,000 yuan (and he has to be a senior technician). However, for those individual 10,000-yuan household bosses who want to engage in technological transformation and encounter production line problems, it is not uncommon to take out 1,000 yuan to hire a solid engineer and solve the problem by contracting the system.
Wuyue businessmen have always been very active, and they are very willing to spend money.
"Let's take a look at it specifically, I don't know the workload, it's hard to answer. Yang Hao spoke first.
"Yes, but there is one request: all the information I see from here must be kept secret. Otherwise...... Although I can't legally sanction you, you won't have a chance in the future. "Gu Biao's beating can only go so far.
Nowadays, there is no contract law in China, and there is no guarantee for breach of contract, especially for private business behavior, which almost always relies on one hand to pay and one hand to deliver the goods. There is no credit basis for any long-term cooperation.
All Gu Biao can use is to use the expected benefits and "righteousness" in the future to hang them.
Fortunately, the hearts of college students are also simple, and the two patted their chests and swore that they would never leak it, and Gu Biao believed it.
"This is the source code, this is the Zilog Z80 model CPU manual, this is the instruction set manual for the Intel 8080 used in the old code. Lao Yang, what you want to do is the command transplant, and there are a few small changes I mentioned...... Can you read the manual?"
Gu Biao asked, but found that Yang Hao had already entered a state of agitated flow.
"Is this the latest technology of Intel and Zilog as mentioned in the textbooks? 8080 chip! I heard that the world's first personal computer in the United States used it as a CPU, right?"
Yang Hao held the manual, his hands were shaking, just like Ouyang Feng saw the "Nine Yin True Scripture".
In fact, Intel's 8080 is not the latest product, as early as 4 years ago in 1975, someone in the United States used this newly born CPU to build the world's first personal computer "Xerox Otto".
But Xerox Otto was not commercially successful, and its R&D companies did not think to promote it to individual users.
Instead, an employee of the Atari game console company at the time saw the potential and tried to persuade his boss, Bushville, to change lanes and overtake and use Atari's home game console marketing network to grab the newly born personal computer market across the circle.
It's a pity that Bushville was already in full swing at that time, and he was only keen on pushing the Atari 2600 game console with all his might, completely ignoring the advice of his subordinates, and letting him go.
Then the employee really got out, pulled some money on his own, set up Apple, launched the test Apple I the following year, and launched the Apple II in 77 - at this point, the earthlings should have guessed that the employee who persuaded Bushville to be driven out was Jobs.
After the launch of Apple II, Zilog discovered the huge market potential of Intel CPUs and built the Z80. It is precisely because the Z80 was born relatively late that Tomohiro Xijiao of Taidong Electric was not familiar with its existence when he engaged in the "space invader", so he did not choose it.
But in any case, in terms of the degree of occlusion in 79 years, the United States has only been born for 4 years/2 years, and it is definitely the most advanced rare goods in China (Intel also launched 8086 at the end of 78)-
You must know that during the same period, there were a large number of heads of state-owned enterprises who went abroad to investigate, and after looking around, they were dazzled and introduced the equipment of the capitalist world in the 40~50s as "advanced technology". Basically, it was not until 85 years later, when the domestic horizons were broadened and they knew how to identify good and bad goods, and this situation gradually decreased.
"Classmate Gu, no, Gu ...... Boss: This 8080 and Z80, do you have any physical objects besides the manual?" asked Yang Hao with a trembling voice.
"Yes. Gu Biao took out a well-packaged cardboard box, which was stuffed with foam, and took out a few boxes of original packaging from it.
Before he left Yueben, he tried to get it in the name of a Hong Kong-funded company.
It is impossible to bring chips back to China in large quantities, it is smuggling, and Gu Biao does not want to leave a stain. But he took a few pieces with him and used them for scientific research purposes after returning to China, and no one checked him when he passed through customs.
He already had a diplomatic passport, and not many people know about chips now, and this is not a contraband item that "prohibits imports to the Eastern camp".
Yang Hao felt a rush of adrenaline, took the two boxes with a worshipful attitude, and then remembered to ask: "Boss Gu, what are you going to do with this CPU?"
"Make game consoles. β
"Do you want to make a game console?" Yang Hao couldn't understand for a while, and then turned indignant, and said bitterly,
"How can such a good thing be wasted on any game machine? Although I don't know what a game machine is, I should engage in more sophisticated scientific research and make contributions to the country! How can such a precious foreign exchange be discouraged!"
Gu Xiao said solemnly: "Making game consoles is for export, and you can create foreign exchange more than five times the import price of this CPU, so that you can buy more CPUs! I didn't make it for the Chinese to play by themselves!"
The other party is also a top student of Zhejiang University, and when Gu Biao said this, they were able to settle the accounts back immediately and unify their thinking.
Yang pleaded humbly: "If that's the case, it's worth itβbut, Boss Gu, since you have a foreign affairs channel, you can get this kind of good thing." Can you use it for our university in the future?
We have a lot of professors and many classmates who want to do projects and practice, but they can't get a single CPU, so they can only talk on paper. We don't ask for the first batch, we just ask you to get a little bit after you earn foreign exchange. I don't have any money, but the school is definitely willing to ask you for the RMB. β
Gu Biao squeezed one by one: "Of course this is okay, as long as you don't delay the normal production of foreign exchange - it also depends on whether you are moving fast or not." β
"That's not what I said! I'll start today, stay up all night for a week, and absolutely thoroughly understand the instruction set manual! Then I'll help you transplant!" Yang Hao felt his blood boiling all over his body, and entered Zhou Botong's martial arts realm.
"Don't be busy, I'll start by talking about the main points I want to change. Gu Biao controlled the pace of communication.
"You say, you say!" the two technologists asked Gu Biao for instructions.
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For the next half a day, Gu Biao stayed at home with the two technicians and gave a rough explanation of what he wanted to change.
Tomohiro Nishikaku's "Space Invaders" was supposed to be the first interactive shooter game for mankind, so it was naturally very rough. Gu Biao will not copy it all because of its historical success.
Instead, it is necessary to combine their own understanding and run in many details better without increasing the technical difficulty.
First of all, this game is not very good in terms of the smoothness of the user experience - in "Space Invaders", in addition to the "small planes" controlled by the player himself and can only shoot horizontally, there are also four friendly bunkers, which will also fire upwards to blow up the "spacemen" passing through these columns.
However, the width of these friendly "bunkers" is 9 columns, and the coverage of the barrage is only 1 column in the middle, so the astronauts can advance through the gap if they are not facing the bunker.
When the player's small plane tries to attack the enemies in these columns, the bullets will first "accidentally injure allies", knocking out certain durability blocks of the bunker.
This is so hurtful to the user experience!
In '79, a few players have the patience to avoid the "you hit an ally"!
So in history, half a year after the Space Invaders came out, games such as the followers of the same company and Namco's "Little Bee" canceled the trouble of "accidentally injuring friendly soldiers" and directly deleted all the bunkers.
The "Space Invaders" was too early to be transplanted to Nintendo's FC red and white aircraft. Namco's "Little Bee" was able to survive to the FC era. So in his previous life, when Gu Biao played "Little Overlord Game Machine" in elementary school, he played Little Bee.
After seeing the real thing, he had the direction of the magic change.
Getting closer to the bees, removing accidental allies and any other foul spots that don't flow well is a must.
In addition, there are several places where there are bold moves.