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Matthew was impressed by Lin Hong's words, and in fact he had similar thoughts: "Stone is right, we must use the power of the Internet. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Since our cracked program was released on each **bs, many people have uploaded their own games and software, and five of the eight games are uploaded by BBS users! ”

"What do you mean...... Isn't our membership limited to Latin schools? Arthur thought for a moment.

"Hmm." Lin Hong nodded, "If we want to quickly become an influential club in the Latin School or even in the state and the whole country, we must abandon the complacent, immutable traditions of other clubs, and recruit members across the country, even the world, just like those famous hacker organizations, so that the best people in the world can be gathered...... The wisdom of the masses. ”

The reason why Lin Hong has such an idea is completely inspired by the last time Matthew posted to collect the bug of the calculator. At that time, Matthew's post received a large number of very valuable replies in a very short period of time, and if it weren't for the information provided by those people, the cracking of the calculator would not have been so smooth at all.

If they want to better use the power of the Internet, it is best to have their own base, so they decided to set up an official BBS belonging to the SAM Association, gathering computer users from all over the country and even the world to discuss and share their creations.

The SAM Association, like the football team, the chess club, and the music club, is a technical club, so it has to keep up with the pace of social development. With the help of the latest network technology, promote yourself and gather the wisdom of the masses.

The technology and process of building BBS, they have learned a lot last time in "Eagle Eye", there is basically no threshold, if there is any problem, you can also ask "Eagle Eye" for advice, after the last contact, they found that "Eagle Eye" is actually a very good communication person, will definitely be enthusiastic to help them.

But the next problem is the hardware device.

If you need to set up a BBS server, you must have a computer with good performance, and you must also open the Internet, and you must pay a service fee every month. These two are a lot of expenses, and their association is a free service to the outside world, and there is no income at all.

In the end, after some discussion, it was decided to take two main ways to raise funds, one is to raise donations, explain the situation to everyone, put up posters in schools, post on BBS, openly solicit donations from everyone, and if everyone is more supportive, they will voluntarily donate some funds, no limit on how much.

Another way is to lobby companies in the business district to provide sponsorship funds, and they can consider advertising in games or software or something.

In the beginning, they each advanced a part of the money to buy the server first, which was counted as a loan to the association. After receiving everyone's donations in the future, the corresponding amount will be drawn from them and returned. If there is a lot of money, it will be used to develop the community, set up a prize to reward the authors who have written excellent software and games, and so on.

This meeting of the "SAM Association" is of great historical significance, especially the decision to establish its own BBS website, which is no longer limited to Latin schools, but to attract members from all over the world, which has a very important role in promoting the rapid growth and development of the association since then.

Matthew estimated that the cost of a good computer plus Internet connection was about $4,000, and according to the financial situation of the four people, Matthew and Pisson each paid $1,500, and Lin Hong and Arthur each paid $500. The main reason why Arthur has no money is that he has just purchased a super luxurious computer, and this time he has to borrow money from his parents.

Matthew's money was originally saved to buy a better car, and the cars he drove before were all his father's, but since the SAM Association needed it, he temporarily put it on the line.

Although Pissen looks quiet, his family is very rich, and he originally directly said that he would let him pay the 4,000 dollars, but it was vetoed, and everyone thought that it was the association's business, and it was better to do business.

After scraping together the money, we went to downtown Boston to buy servers and some necessary accessories.

In order to be able to get the best performance with the least amount of money, they decided to buy various accessories for the computer and then assemble it themselves, anyway, they are all very familiar with the computer, after all, the brand machine has the added value of the brand, which is not cost-effective for their current economic conditions.

But later, through understanding, it was found that there was no suitable server solution on the assembly machine, and finally they had to choose Apple's Apple-IIE, which is currently suitable for individuals to set up servers only by using Apple computers, and the official server of the Blue Eagle hacker organization uses this model of computer.

Of course, the standard configuration of the Apple-IIE certainly does not meet the needs, and it has to be expanded, anyway, the computer itself is designed for hackers, leaving enough expansion slots on it. They bought the accessories one by one in the electronics store according to the list that "Hawkeye" had given them last time, and they also spent a lot of money to buy software. The software running on the server is not free at this time, they can only spend money to buy it.

As a result, there was a surplus of funds, so I bought a few calculators of other models and brands for testing, and then bought some electronic components for upgrades, such as flash memory with larger memory, and some better infrared wireless transceivers that can provide a wider range and angle of infrared signals.

There are a lot of things in the electronic market, all of which are some of the latest electronic products, which simply dazzle Lin Hong's eyes, but unfortunately they still have to go to the telephone company to install a telephone, go through networking procedures or something, and don't care about it.

If you want to set up a BBS server and put it on the Internet for everyone to access, the computer is the basic hardware investment, in addition, you also need a modem for dialing, of course, the supporting software is also indispensable. In addition to these, you also have to go to AT&T telephone and telegraph company to handle the network and apply for a fixed IP, so that after the BBS is set up, you can use the tel client software to log in and access through this IP.

At this time, BBS did not have a graphical interface, and the browser was not invented at all, using the Tel protocol, which could only be accessed through a text-only interface.

Of course, if you want to make it easier for users to remember your web address, you can also go to a domain registrar to register a domain name, and then bind this domain name to the IP address, so that when people visit the domain name directly, they can log in directly to the website.

Originally, in Arthur and Lin Hong's view, registering a domain name and renewing it is an expense every year, and if you can save it, you can save it, after all, many hacker BBS are accessed using IP addresses, and everyone can also remember it. But Matthew doesn't think so, he said that IP addresses are very bad for memory, and if SAM really wants to go to the whole country and the world, it must register a simple and easy-to-remember domain name, which will form a brand effect and be very helpful for future development.

In the end, everyone was persuaded by him to agree to register a domain name, which was registered according to the acronym of "SAM Technology Frontier Association". The reason why the C0M domain name was not registered was mainly because the domain name with this suffix was mainly used in the commercial field at the beginning, and they wanted to set up a non-profit BBS, so they used this suffix.

Several people were busy for a long time, ran to several places, and finally completed the work almost completely, they successfully prepared the computer and the corresponding software in the headquarters room, and waited for the AT&T staff to come and install the phone tomorrow.

Back at home, Lin Hong has a lot of things, the calculators he bought today are for him, he has to find time to crack these different models of Texas Instruments calculators as soon as possible, they are all the same system, the difficulty is not very great, but it is a little cumbersome, and it takes some time.

It has been almost two weeks since he came to the United States, and Lin Hong has gradually adapted to life here, making a lot of friends at school, of course, the best ones are Arthur and Matthew. These days are very fulfilling, although the efficiency of the class is quite slow, but Lin Hong can not do his own things in the class, because the teaching method here is very different, he often has to participate in discussions, fortunately every time he can learn something that cannot be learned in the textbook.

In the past few days, Lin Hong has also begun to read the books listed by Linus, especially the book "Operating System: Design and Implementation", which he has read two or three times and can recite it directly. Through this book, he also has a certain understanding of Unix, and at the same time has a deep understanding of the operating system, which is the largest and most basic software.

During this period, Lin Hong and Linus also contacted several times, and learned that the other party's terminal emulator is progressing well, he has completely figured out how to implement it, and is now writing code and debugging, and I believe that it will soon be effective.

Since Lin Hong also became interested in Unix, and his progress was very fast, Linus felt that he was fully capable of participating in the development of this project, so he offered to mail him a copy of the minix that he had modified, so that the two of them could communicate synchronously at any time through the Internet.

The postal system from Finland to the United States is quite developed, and it should be possible to reach it in two to three weeks by air transport, and Lin Hong is full of expectations for this.

After dinner, Lin Hong returned to his room, and just wanted to study the few calculators he bought back today, when the phone on the table suddenly rang, his phone had never rang since it was installed, and his number seemed to be known only to his family, so his first reaction should be a transoceanic call from China.

However, after answering, I found out that it was Cook who called.

"Stone, I'm Cook, didn't I ask you to call me last week?"