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On the platform, the stevedore drove the crane to the rear, found a container painted with the words "Taiyu Technology" on the flat car, lifted it, and put it at the back of the train that followed.

While they were carrying out this series of processes, dozens of local residents who seemed to be loitering around the train station confirmed that this was a container belonging to Taiyu Technology, and immediately ran away, stumbling on each other while running, trying to stop others behind. A group of people rushed to the nearest payphone at the speed of a 100-meter race, scrambling for the phone, and the group of people was fierce as if they were fighting.

A tall man's clothes were torn and the corners of his mouth were bloodied, and finally relying on his physical strength, he first grabbed the phone, and then while blocking the hand behind him with his elbow, he skillfully took out Zhang Yiyuan's yuan, nodded and handed it to the salesman flatteringly: "Sister, I'll make a long-distance call, this is a dollar, don't look for it!" ”

Then endured the black fist from behind him, hooked his body, protected the microphone and said to the operator at a hurried speed: "Hello, trouble you, I want to call Hong Kong long-distance, the number is 00852-2997616, yes, sorry for the trouble...... no, 2997616 yes, yes, yes, thank you!" ”

The operator muttered dissatisfiedly from the microphone, then heard her try to call the international line, and then heard a clang, as if the operator had pushed the microphone aside, followed by the sound of the click of peeling melon seeds, and the sound of her laughing with her colleagues.

"Alas, this microphone is a lot of money when you pick it up, and I don't care if it's connected over there or not. I'll cut the line as soon as the time comes! The salesman on the phone lazily finished dealing with a customer, glanced at this side, took out the melon seeds and slowly knocked them, and warned.

Telephones are still a novelty in general, and there are even fewer long-distance calls, and there are very few calls that can make calls to China. If it weren't for the fact that some state-owned manufacturers at the railway station needed to contact foreign customers, it would be impossible to open international long-distance services.

Apart from this state-run store, there is no second public phone that can make international calls within a few kilometers of the neighborhood.

"Yes, yes!" The tall man was anxious and angry, and he didn't dare to urge the operator, and in the sight of the salesman, he once again took out a five-yuan bill with a heartache and handed it over reluctantly, squeezing out a smile on his face: "Sister, you have to wait a little longer, you take it first, I will make up for it if it is not enough!" ”

After a short while, he took out another sheet of five pieces and handed it out again.

And then another five-piece ......

After about fifteen or sixteen minutes of anxious waiting, the voice of the operator came from the other end of the phone: "The line is vacant, Xiao Li, you want to transfer to Hong Kong, take Line 9!" ”

"Got it, the manual wiring is troublesome!" The operator, Xiao Li, complained, and then the tall man finally heard a long beep from the microphone that made his heart flutter when the line was connected.

Thankfully, there was no phone call over there!

If she tries to connect and finds that the person answering is calling the busy line, she will not wait patiently for the other party to finish the call and then connect, but will hang up immediately and then give the line to other operators who need it.

When the next time there will be idleness, only the ghost knows.

Maybe it's immediate, maybe it's a few hours of waiting, and it's not surprising that the line is busy all day. It's a waste of time and

For the Chinese people of this era, making a phone call is more tiring than fighting!

But even so, it is much more convenient to talk to people who are tens or hundreds of kilometers away on the phone than to go directly to the person and tell them in person. In this era, it is difficult to leave the country, and if you want to contact overseas users, it is the only way to rely on telephone.

"Hey, you're on the side?" The tall man waited for the familiar Cantonese voice on the other side of the microphone as he wished, and was so excited that he was about to cry, and hurriedly said in a trembling voice, "Boss Zhou, I'm A Feng from Shenzhen, didn't you say that once the goods of Taiyu Technology arrive, they will notify you immediately?" Yes, yes, it's here, a whole container, just loaded half an hour ago, the truck has already departed, it should be there today! Yes, it's nothing, this is the ...... I should do, alas, Boss Zhou, don't hang up, I made this call but it cost eighteen yuan ......, ah, hahaha, okay, okay, no problem, I'll go over! ”

For these few words, he waited here for about twenty minutes.

But compared to other peers, he is still lucky.

The tall man put down the microphone contentedly, proudly brushed his hair hanging down to his forehead, straightened out his torn clothes, glanced at his peers who were fighting for the phone again, Shi Shiran squeezed out of the crowd, and walked to the station hotel where Boss Li told him where to get the money.

After walking a few steps, I heard a colleague behind me who won the scramble, and was reporting the phone number to the operator in a flattering voice: "Excuse me, please pick me up the Hong Kong long-distance ......, ah, who the beat me, Lao Tzu can't kill you, ah, no, I'm not scolding you, oh, the phone just now was made by another person, I am ......, yes, I know, you work very hard, I can't help it, please, please be sure to help me connect the phone, this is a matter of human life, thank you, thank you, thank you so much... … Ah,, who's pulling my ears......"

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At this time, on the third floor of an industrial building in Kowloon, Hong Kong, in the business office marked with the nameplate of Hongsheng Electronics, a business person excitedly pushed open the door, rushed to the manager's room next door, and reported loudly: "Manager Wang, just now we called over in Shenzhen, saying that Taiyu Technology has arrived at a new container, just loaded, and it is expected to arrive at noon today!" This time we were the first to get the news, and the other manufacturers didn't know about it yet! ”

In the manager's room, Manager Wang was receiving two British merchants, and he pushed the door and was about to get angry, when he heard it, his face immediately turned from Y to sunny, his eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, slapped his thigh, and applauded: "Well done, great!" Aaron, you go to Taiyu to order immediately, yes, don't call, you go in person, well, buy ...... first" He glanced at the two British merchants, gritted his teeth and said, "I can't bear the child to catch the wolf, Aaron, you go and order a hundred units!" New products are on the market, and I'm afraid they won't sell them if they are less! I'm going to call all the technicians over, and as soon as the new game comes back, we'll organize a crack! ”

He knows how good and pretty Taiwoo Technology's games are.

In the early days, everyone couldn't crack it, and many manufacturers just stole game ideas, and then found someone to develop games with the same interface and content by themselves. But after it was developed, without exception, I found that the game I developed was much worse than that of Taiyu Technology in terms of volume and sensitivity.

They use the same processor, but the quality of the pirated game is not half a star, but it is completely backward, just like another game.

In order to install the source program, it is necessary to use a larger storage capacity than Taiyu Technology. And the actual game feel, C control, and reaction speed are completely incomparable with the original game, and the difference is extremely obvious. Gamers can tell it's a crappy knockoff and will immediately drop it and walk away, preferring to wait a long time with the original game rather than play piracy.

Therefore, in the early days, Taiyu Technology's arcade games almost swept the global market, and no competitor could come up with counterfeit games of the same quality.

Even later, everyone finally found a way to read the source code from the solidified memory, and the programmers were staring at it and couldn't recognize it at all. Even the American company Atari, which is known as the global game giant, hires a program master who reads the program in the dark and suffers.

So much so that all game manufacturers in the world unanimously agree that the one who writes programs for Taiyu Technology behind the scenes is the top master, and there is no programmer in the world who can compare with it. And it's definitely not something that can be done by one person, there must be a huge team to provide technical support.

The first "Space Invaders" game, a small program of a few kilobytes, took three and a half years for global manufacturers, game enthusiasts, programmers, and technical experts to completely crack and restore it. It's really that this program is too concise and perfect, basically it is directly to the processor for the lowest level of code C work, to understand the code itself will take countless hours, and then the compressed and streamlined program is restored to everyone can understand the program line, it takes more time.

As soon as this cracked version was announced, it caused a sensation among computer enthusiasts, scientific research technicians, and university professors around the world, and they all entered it into the textbook as a teaching example.

There is this precedent, except for a few boring people in the world who seem to be egg-pain, almost no one in the world will try to crack the game source code of Taiyu Technology - cracking other source code is nothing more than spending a little more money, a little longer, hiring a little more technical personnel, and the cost is slightly higher, but cracking the game code of Taiyu Technology ......, which is terrible!

Some people in the computer industry have even secretly given this mysterious programming team a nickname, calling it "God's Team".

Only God, this inhuman being, is possible to start from the lowest level of control and completely use assembly language from beginning to end to program the game!

There are also some programmers who have repeatedly failed to crack and can't understand even the source code, so they simply call it a "neurotic team" to show that it is not that they can't understand it, but that the team is really painful to a certain level, so that normal people can't understand their thinking.

Not neurotic, who would be bored enough to write code all out of assembly?

Therefore, in the later stage, various game manufacturers and pirates gave up the idea of copycats, and after extracting the source code of the game, they no longer tried to crack it. Instead, it takes the internal structure, components, and integrated circuits of the game console exactly the same as Taiyu Technology, and makes a pirated arcade machine that is 100% irrefutable as long as it is caught, and then burns the extracted source code into its own memory and sells it.

Some people have tried to replace them with other better integrated circuits, processors, and audio and video circuits, but the results are not as good as the original.

The source code can't be cracked, and the effect of replacing other components will be worse, and self-copycat can achieve 70% or 80% of the original at most, except for 100% piracy, what other way is there?

In the end, everyone has relied on domestic favoritism to steal the source code and launch a full-scale pirated arcade machine that is the same as Taiyu Technology.

That's it, there are still many game fans who only recognize Taiyu Technology and don't recognize other brands.

Therefore, Taiyu Technology, whose market share has declined sharply, has once again increased rapidly, falling from the lowest to 39% market share, quickly rebounding to 50%, and then floating up and down at this level.

In addition to being frustrated, the industry finally gradually recognized the leading position of Taiyu Technology.

Another consequence of this is that manufacturers began to rush to buy the latest arcade machines as soon as possible, and then immediately organized source code extraction.

And the global agent sellers also know that if they want to make the most profits, they must hurry up, and complete the distribution work before the pirated arcade machines are withdrawn in large numbers, and grab the first piece of the pie. Basically, as soon as a new game hit the market, it was immediately snapped up by agents everywhere.

Therefore, all pirate manufacturers also have to rush for time.

When they couldn't get in the country, they found agents and paid Shenzhen locals to help keep an eye on the train station. As soon as the container arrives, the manufacturer will be notified immediately, and then they will immediately rush to Taiyu Technology as soon as possible, pretending to be an agent to run to order.

The spy they invited today was the first to call and report the news, which won them a head start. Manager Wang seemed to have seen a lot of banknotes flying in front of him, smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and immediately ordered the salesman to hurry up and order.

"Roger!" The salesman was also so happy that he jumped straight and ran towards the outside of the company.

“what？” The two British merchants could not understand Cantonese or Chinese, and when they saw them chattering, the salesman ran out in a rage and couldn't help asking.

Manager Wang, who spoke fluent English, immediately explained the situation to the other party, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Turner, Mr. Rodney, you are so lucky, as soon as you come, you will come across a new game on the market." My salesman has already gone to order, you just need to wait another week, you can buy the latest arcade machine! ”

“ood！” The two foreigners were very happy and gave thumbs up and praised them repeatedly.