San Marino is a wealthy middle-class town with a population of only 100,000 and is connected to the city of Pasadena. Thomas's home is in San Marino, where his youngest daughter and second son attend Huntington High School and San Marino High School, respectively. He was a member of the San Marino High School Parent Council, so he was no stranger to the people not far away, so he simply smiled and stepped forward.

"Hey, Mr. Thomas, you're here too? I thought your parent committee was just Ms. Esta alone!" Mrs. Wang Li is the only Chinese American in San Marino High School's school board members, and she was recently elected president of the school board. Her husband was a well-known neurosurgeon in San Marino during his lifetime, and the wealthy couple were very supportive of education, donating a lot of money to San Marino High School every year.

"Good afternoon, Ms. Wang! I think you misunderstood, I'm not here on behalf of the Parent Committee. I'm the editor-in-chief of Computer Enthusiast Miscellaneous and I received an invitation from the organizers to send a reporter to cover the event! You know, I live in San Marino, not very far from here, so I just came by myself!"

Thomas smiled and explained why he was here. The school district education committee, the principal, the chairman of the school board, and the representatives of the parent committee have all the most critical personnel who determine the operation of a school.

School districts are responsible for the distribution of education funding at the federal and state levels, with the principal being the top decision-maker of the school, the school board being the overseer, and the parent committee being the most influential force in school policy. Especially in affluent school districts like San Marino, annual parental donations are the most important addition to the public funds allocated by the government.

"The scale of this exhibition seems to be quite small, this Akon computer seems to have never heard of it before, John, do you have any news?" Principal White asked.

"This is a British computer company that is preparing to enter the US market with ambitions, and I think they are clearly coming for Apple this time!"

It occurred to Thomas that San Marino High School's budget for the next school year had set aside a $100,000 fund for the construction of computer classrooms. He guessed that Principal White was probably here because of this incident, so he asked, "Mr. Principal, how is the construction of the school's computer classroom progressing, and can it be put into use before the start of the next semester?"

"Originally, I had decided to buy 50 Apple computers, but it just so happened that this Aikang company had such a new computer promotion meeting. Their salesman said that the ABC computer was more powerful and cheaper than the Apple computer, and that it had a networked system designed specifically for school teaching use!

So Ms. Wang and I came over today to have a look! Let me introduce you, this is Mr. Carter, who will be one of the two new teachers in charge of our school's computer program in the new semester!"

The guests who arrived in the auditorium in advance were in groups of three or five, each discussing and communicating in a low voice. At this time, a warm voice came from the public address system of the venue, and everyone present suddenly fell silent.

"Distinguished gentlemen and ladies, I am John, the computer teaching demonstration class organized by Aikang Computer is about to begin, please find a seat and sit down!

Thirty students from the 10th grade of Pasadena High School will be the substitute teacher for this computer class!"

With a burst of applause in the auditorium, a group of lively and cheerful students walked from behind the scenes to the simulated classroom in the center of the stage. The atmosphere in the auditorium also entered the rhythm of the class at once.

The audience under the stage was full of people sitting in dozens of school districts throughout Southern California, specially invited education officials, school principals, school board representatives, parent committee representatives, and computer teachers. These people actually determine the final purchase choice of educational computers for each school, and as long as they can be impressed, ABC computers will soon enter American campuses.

“…… After learning the basic commands of the east-dos operating system, I will introduce you to the use of the keyboard. The keyboard you use is a special keyboard KEY-102 specially developed by Aikang for ABC computers.

Why is it called key-102, I believe many smart students have guessed it, yes, it has a total of 102 keys (keys)! On the keyboard, in addition to the three rows of 26 letter keys that everyone knows on the left, the ten number keys designed by the nine-square grid on the right, as well as a few punctuation marks, operation mark keys, and some function keys that everyone is relatively unfamiliar with.

I'm going to let you know a few of the most common function keys, and some of the shortcut key settings related to them. Mastering these tips can make it easier for us to control the computer in our hands.

The first important function key is the 'Ctrl' key at the bottom row, the leftmost one, and the sharp-eyed students may have noticed the symmetrical position to the right of the space, and the same 'Ctrl' key......"

John explained the design of the ABC computer keyboard to the students and the audience on stage. For example, why are the "Ctrl" keys, "Shift" keys, and "Alt" keys symmetrical, and there are two of them? This is for the left and right hands to choose, so that everyone can use them.

For example, why the enter key is designed to be larger, why the space bar is designed to be particularly long, these two keys are one of the most used keys, and the special design is to make it easier and convenient for everyone to use. Moreover, the ABC computer has also added a lot of shortcut key settings to each function key of the keyboard, which makes it more convenient and faster for everyone to perform many common operations.

John's eloquent narration made everyone present feel that just a keyboard, the R & D personnel of Aikang Computer have spent a lot of effort and carried out many ingenious designs, so that everyone's good impression of Aikang Computer has subtly improved a lot.

This is also the highlight that Dongfang Electronics is preparing to highlight when carrying out the overall marketing planning for ABC computer. To be honest, in addition to the increase in memory of the ABC computer, in terms of other hardware performance, the only thing worth mentioning is this Key-102 keyboard.

This keyboard is actually a theft of the classic ModelM101 keyboard launched by IBM in 1985. It's just that when the designers of Dongfang Electronics finalized the model, a printing shortcut key was added between the "alt" key and the space bar on the right side, which was convenient for office applications when connecting to the printer, and finally became 102 keys.

Before John joined Oriental Electronics, or Akon Computer Company, he was a computer teacher at a public high school in San Francisco. He is very popular with students because of his humorous conversation, good communication with students, and his ability to stimulate the classroom atmosphere.

But in the United States, high school teaching is not a high-paying profession. Especially for teachers in public high schools, because the law in the United States is particularly strict in protecting students, the teaching profession of teachers does not get much respect, except for university professors.

So after Dongfang Electronics offered him a good salary, John immediately resigned from his original school and joined the Aikang computer marketing team. Compared with the rest of the team, he was originally a computer teacher and knew the American secondary education system, so he was naturally the best person to take public classes.

In this teaching demonstration class, John's rhythm is very good. In the first 20 minutes, he mainly lectured on the learning and use of the East-DOS system, and comprehensively demonstrated the easy-to-learn, easy-to-use and powerful features of East-DOS. In the middle ten minutes, he introduced the use of the keyboard, highlighting the most shining hardware design highlight in the ABC computer.

In the last half hour, he asked the students to use a simple teaching software, and then let the students operate on the computer, and he answered questions online at any time through the local area network system to solve various problems encountered by the students when applying the software.

Throughout the teaching class, Mr. John, the teacher, fully demonstrated the advanced and powerful LAN system tailored for school computer teaching to the education officials, principals, parents and other computer teachers present on the stage.

The teacher completely threw away the shackles of the blackboard and chalk, and put the whole teaching process on the computer through the remote control and remote login technology of the local area network. Students only need to sit in front of their computers and watch the teacher's computer screen in sync.

When students encounter problems, the teacher can directly control the students' computers to answer questions remotely, and John can even sit in his lecture from beginning to end without even standing up.

This is undoubtedly a huge shock to all the audience, it is incredible, this is the real computer teaching, this is the computer classroom we need! Countless principals, school directors and parents in the audience are looking at the hot eyes at the moment, maybe they are not proficient in computers, but it does not prevent them from recognizing the advanced and powerful technology shown by Aikang Computer Company.