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Chapter 298: HELLC reappears

Lin Hong, the electronic market in the provincial capital, had not been to it before, so he took the opportunity to get the software and went shopping. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's a bit similar to the underground market in the early days of Zhongguan Village, where game consoles and accessories are sold, and of course, more computer-related accessories and software, as well as some basic electronic components.

In the summer where I bought software, there were two or three merchants who sold floppy disks and games, because the software here was new and complete, and it was well-known in the entire Changsha City. The shopkeeper I met in the summer was named Xie Jinhui, in his twenties, and because he was the third in the family, some people called him the third or the third.

He received Summer very warmly, and in the past few days, Summer has been running here for nothing, plus the two of them have compatible personalities, and they are very familiar with each other.

"Third brother, this is my good brother, Lin Jiang, I'll take him over to have a look." Summer did not directly say that Lin Hong was the boss of Tricolor Fire Technology, but only said that he was a colleague.

"Yo, your guests are coming, hello, hello, welcome!" Although Xie Jinhui is young, his years of social hard work have cultivated his eight-sided and exquisite character, and he is also very experienced in dealing with people.

"Hello, Boss Xie." Lin Hong nodded at him and didn't say much. After greeting him, he focused his gaze on the floppy disks on the shelves.

Xie Jinhui saw that Lin Hong didn't like to talk very much, so he didn't bother him anymore, but turned to Xia and said:

"In the summer, I copied all the software you wanted to this floppy disk, and added a few compression software that you need to use, such as AR

LHA and ZIP. ”

"Thanks!"

"Hey, we brothers still need to say thank you?" Xie Jinhui waved his hand, "These software are all on the Huiduo network, haven't you been on it before?" ”

"Nope. I've never heard of this before, and last time I was looking for domestic BBS on the Internet, but I didn't find any of them. "Summer tells the truth.

"I've been hanging around CFIDO a lot, so if you're really not familiar with it, I can give you an overview."

"That's a good idea!" Xia Wen Yan glanced at Lin Hong.

Xie Jinhui sat down in front of his computer, started the computer, and entered the CCDOS system.

"Third child, why are you still using CCDOS? Didn't I tell you last time, the support for Chinese is not very good, many software that enters the CFIDO network cannot run, this is because these software need to plug in the Chinese system under DOS, and the CFIDO system uses a lot of ASCII character graphics, which conflicts with the national standard code Chinese, and the requirements for plugging Chinese are relatively high. ”

Lin Hong saw that he was starting to demonstrate here, and also walked over.

I saw Xie Jinhui start a software called "telix",DOS interface,White on black background,Color menu interface,The text inside is all Chinese characters,It shows that this is a Chinese version。

"This is a special dial-up software connected to the CFIDO network, a telephone line, a computer, a modem plus this software, you can successfully dial the Huiduo network." Xie Jinhui introduced.

This software is a bit like dial-up software in the Internet, but the protocols of the two networks are completely different, the protocol used by Huiduo is based on the Zmodem protocol, while the Internet is TCP/IP protocol.

"The sites I often go on include Starlight BBS in Xian, and PonysoftBBS in Shenzhen, I'll connect PonysoftBBS now to show you."

After Xie Jinhui completed the dialing, he called up a software called "bwave", and its Chinese name was "Blue Wave Express".

"This blue wave express is the most popular offline BBS client in Huiduo network, and you can use it to directly connect to each BBS for browsing."

Xie Jinhui said, entered a phone number, the area code is deep Z, and after entering, the screen shows that it is being connected.

Soon, the whole screen turned blue, and a BBS interface was displayed, with the current time and date displayed at the top, and the division of the plate in the middle, roughly "deep Zhen local", "anti-virus area", "application software", "international interconnection", "game secrets", "chatting on the whole network"...... and so on.

You can use some shortcuts to manipulate these sections or posts.

At the very bottom of the screen, the name of the BBS is "PonysoftBBS", and the name of the webmaster is "Ponyma".

Xie Jinhui continued: "The stationmaster of this ponysoftbbs is called Ma Huateng, and his site is very fast, and it is said that there are four telephone lines in total. It is not cheap to set up such a BBS, tens of thousands of dollars are conservative estimates. ”

Xia couldn't help but be a little stunned when she heard this: "It's so expensive to set up a BBS like this?" ”

"Of course it's expensive! However, if you only use one wire, you can't use so much money, and the current price, the price of applying for a wire is less than 10,000, around seven or eight thousand. However, in this way, the number of people connecting at the same time is very small, which is not conducive to the development of BBS. This Ma Huateng is definitely not simple, because being able to pull four wires at the same time to set up BBS is not something that ordinary people can do. ”

The cost of setting up a BBS is so expensive, what is the purpose of these people setting up a BBS?

Thinking of this, Summer asked, "Third child, how do these BBSs make money?" Do you charge for visits? ”

"Charges?" Xie Jinhui glanced at Xia Xia a little strangely, "No, it's all free." ”

"Aren't they losing money every year? How can there be so much money to invest in this? ”

Tens of thousands of yuan, at this time is a very large amount, ordinary bosses surnamed family, busy all year round, may not be able to earn thousands of yuan.

"I don't know. This thing, the poor can't afford to play at all, and only the rich can play it. Xie Jinhui sighed.

When Summer heard this, she couldn't help but agree.

If he hadn't met Lin Hong, he wouldn't have been able to touch these things at all. You must know that at the beginning, their family even had to carefully calculate what dishes to cook in the pool every day, and they still owed a lot of money to relatives outside.

And now, the things he touches, a computer costs nearly 10,000 yuan, a modem costs more than 1,000 yuan, connected to the network, do nothing, and cost dozens of yuan an hour.

The contrast is too great. It's two different lives altogether, two different classes.

In Lin Hong's eyes, this kind of BBS built on Huiduo is actually not much different from BBS on the Internet, but it is a little simple.

Xie Jinhui said the last sentence, he also agreed. At present, those who can play this kind of thing are definitely rich people, and for ordinary families, they dare not think of it.

However, Lin Hong believes that these costs will come down sooner or later, and they are currently so expensive, mainly because these things are still relatively rare, and when they are gradually popularized, the price will also come down, and the same is true for Internet fees. At that time, it will be the real spring of the Internet.

When Lin Hong and the others went back, they were worried that the company's modem was not universal, so they simply bought a second-hand one in the electronic market.

After coming back, Lin Hong immediately connected to the ponysoftbbs on Xie Jinhui before, read all the posts in it, and then logged in to several other common bbs, and also scanned some important content, and finally had a more intuitive understanding of the domestic Huiduo network.

Huiduo is global, and such networks also exist abroad.

The management of this Huiduo network also refers to the management rules of amateur radio, and each station has its own specific number, which is equivalent to a call sign.

The entire organizational structure of Huiduo network from top to bottom is divided into continents, regions, networks, nodes, and point stations. The number of the site is named according to this rule.

And each continent, region, and network has its coordinators, that is, continental coordinators, regional coordinators, and network coordinators. In normal times, I am responsible for coordinating the relationship between these sites, organizing events, etc.

Generally speaking, the core user base of the entire Huiduo network is transferred from amateur radio enthusiasts.

Their unifying traits are a love of technology, a love of new gadgets, a very receptive to new things, and a certain degree of economic freedom to do what they like.

This circle can be said to be more niche than the ham circle.

After learning about this, Lin Hong was surprised and very happy at the same time, after all, China is not as backward as he imagined in this area, and there are still many technical elites who are paying attention to the world's cutting-edge technology. Through CFIDO, they discussed a variety of interesting topics, including more advanced technologies, such as operating systems and viruses, as well as Internet technology.

The reason why the CFIDO network was chosen is because the domestic Internet development is relatively backward, and on the other hand, it may be out of the consideration of saving costs for users.

Lin wanted to know more about the technical details, such as the details of the Zmodem protocol and the specific hardware and software of the BBS, but he didn't find what he wanted to see from the existing posts.

So, he posted a post on several relatively large BBSs such as Chenguang BBS in Xi'an, PonysoftBBS in Shenzhen, and West Point BBS in Zhuhai, asking for technical details, and pointed out at the end of the post:

"I'm familiar with the linxu operating system, this is a very good open source operating system, I want to take a moment to implement the dial-up software and bbs browsing software under this operating system, I hope you will give me advice, thank you! ――hellc”

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