Chapter 54 Developing Computers
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Carpenter radios were selling well, and as they licensed them to other manufacturers, they were able to meet market demand.
Their radios have begun to move out of the United States and overseas, and people all over the world know that there is a transistor radio that is small, convenient, and performs very well.
The electronics company brought a lot of income to the Carpenter's family, and even exceeded the income of the record company for a time. It's just that the money earned was quickly put into research by Bart.
Now they have developed televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc., with transistors and integrated circuit boards as the main body, and more importantly, under Alex's construction, they have developed the first transistor computer!
Researchers at cpT were in front of the Bell room, and Dr. Shockley had been thinking about building a transistor computer before that. It's just that they haven't figured out how to make diodes, and when Alex solved this critical problem, they put most of their manpower and material resources into the research of new diodes.
As for Bart, in the beginning, they didn't think about making transistor computers.
But Alex got so many things out just to do this, how could he possibly allow Bart and them to do other things. Originally, he could have given Shockley all the design drawings of the transistor computer and integrated circuit board to Shockley, but he didn't want to waste money on outsiders' fields, and he didn't want to explain too much to Shockley and others.
"Bart, the world of the future is the world of computers, and we can't afford to lag behind others!" Alex pitches his idea to Bart so vigorously that he has to get a computer.
"But we don't know anything about computers. Nobody does what you say. "Barthes's idea is not to move on to what he doesn't understand, and it's not too late to do it when the time comes.
After listening to Bart's words, Alex realized that the biggest problem they were facing now was that there was not a transistor computer in the world. Even transistors have not been manufactured for a long time. As for the diodes that computers need to use, that is a matter of a few days after its birth. For new things, people always have to have a familiar process.
It would be impossible for someone who is not familiar with transistors to design a transistor computer.
"You don't have to worry about this, I'll provide you with a solution for a transistor computer." Alex has a big package and plans to copy it to the end.
"You?" Bart was a little incredulous, he didn't think Alex would do anything. Alex is smart enough, but no matter how smart a person is, he can't do something that so many scientists can't do.
This idea, for the general situation, is very correct. It's just that Alex is an exception, he is a powerful Celestial Empire science student, and his hands-on ability may not be strong enough, and he has learned a lot of miscellaneous theoretical knowledge.
Besides, he was still using the puppet Dr. Shockley, and he had a lot of experience and skill, and with the knowledge of later generations, he would soon be able to make a transistor computer.
A long time ago, Alex saw a post on the forum.
That post is to teach people to make their own computer, and in this, the most critical part is to make their own CPU. That CPU uses a TTL integrated circuit to make zuΓ², which is extremely simple.
Those who have studied digital logic and digital circuits will know that it is possible to implement a CPU using TTL gate circuits. When Alex was in college, he had seen his classmates do similar things, but they didn't have that complete functionality.
This post is a reprint of the project log of a foreign fanatical technophore, which is very detailed, and there is even a detailed process of using the netacci program and compiling it into a computer assembler. Unfortunately, Alex is a programming idiot, and the Shockley puppet doesn't understand programming, so he can't restore this part.
So Alex insisted on studying transistor computers, but in order to hide people's eyes, he still asked Bart to develop other transistor products.
He asked that his role in it not be divulged. His ultimate goal was to study transistor computers, and with integrated circuit boards and drawings provided by Alex, this was not a problem at all for the research department led by Barth.
The biggest skill of these researchers is their hands-on ability, and it may be a little difficult for them to design a new thing, but it is a matter of minutes for them to make an electronic product according to the drawings.
It's a fully functional CPU that can support full hardware address translation, memory-mapped IO, and dma, and supports multiple processes up to 3MHz. It also uses an 8-bit address bus, and each process has 128k address space, including 32 2k number pages and 32 2k code pages.
This transistor computer was named "The First Generation", which means that this is the meaning of the first transistor computer.
The "first" generation of computers was built very quickly, and through rigorous testing, there were basically no major problems.
When Carpenter Electronics announced that they had developed the world's first transistor computer, the scientific community was shaken by the news. They asked where Carpenter Electronics came from, and why they hadn't heard of the company's name before.
The US side was also attracted by their transistor computer, and immediately sent a team of experts and troops over. Experts came to verify the computer's performance, and the military was there to protect the high-tech of American companies from being stolen by Soviet agents.
At this time, McCarthyism was very rampant, ** ideas spread everywhere, the Soviet Union was the number one enemy of the United States, and they had to guard against it.
Tube computers use the "fixed-point arithmetic system", and the absolute value involved in the calculation must be less than 1. Transistor computers add floating-point arithmetic to this basis, so that the absolute value of the number jΓΉ can reach the tens or hundreds of powers of 2, which makes the computing power of the computer achieve a leap.
"It's incredible! It's incredible! It runs more than 1o times more than the most advanced computers out there, or even more! β
The experts gathered around the transistor computer and let out a burst of amazement!
They really didn't expect that there would be a computer in the world that performed so well and ran so steadily. In their view, this transistor computer has the advantages of small size, light weight, long life, high efficiency, low heat and low power consumption, which can not only cope with various high-tech research applications, but also can be used in enterprises.
The results of this test were staggering, causing many computer scientists to exclaim, "We have entered the age of transistor computers!" β
A large number of orders have come one after another, especially the United States has allocated a huge amount of money to Carpenter Electronics to develop a more advanced and practical computer according to the needs of the national defense department.
Bart was dumbfounded by the huge amount of money pouring in, he never expected that such an inconspicuous computer would bring such high profits to the company.
"Sure enough, it is the easiest to earn money from the national government!" He thought so in his heart.
But he was a little worried, because the computer was built according to the solution provided by Alex. If you want to develop a new computer, you have to have excellent people in this field. Alex couldn't have been involved in the research work, and he knew that he didn't have anyone to do it.
Bart tosses the troublesome question to Alex and wants to ask him how to solve it. Soon, Alex came up with a solution, which was to reorganize the research team and go to the university to recruit people.
Alex asks Bart to go to the University of Minnesota to find a master's student named Seymour Clay, who he knows is not trivial. With Seymour Clay in charge of cpT's computer research, Alex doesn't have to worry about anything at all, and this guy is a better fit than anyone else.
Alex tells Bart that he had discovered that the student had a gifted computer talent while interacting with the university professors, and that he was sure Seymour Clay would be able to do what Bart had asked him to do.
Bart didn't know why, so he went to find this master's student and strongly invited him to cpT to preside over the computer research work.
It just so happened that Seymour graduated from school with a master's degree in mathematics. Just when he didn't know what to do, his mentor said, "If I were you, I'd go down this street all the way to the Engineering Research Association (eRa), and I think you'd love the research they're doing." β
At this time, the Engineering Research Association was working on computer design, and when he was about to join eRa, cpT came and invited him to work on the world's most advanced transistor computer.
This surprised him, and when he heard that someone had recommended it to the boss of the company, he thought it was the kindness of the teacher or friend. So he followed, and when he saw it, he was amazed by the transistor computer designed by Alex, and he was completely fascinated.
With Seymour on board, Bart can completely leave the computer department behind and let the other party arrange the research work.
This is Alex's original request, he said: "Leave the work to someone who knows how to do it, and don't get involved in it yourself." β
Having said that, Alex is still worried that Seymour, who has just graduated, is not mature, and he plans to communicate directly with the other party. This time, Alex chose the letter to communicate, and he asked Bart to give the letter he wrote to Seymour, and instructed him not to reveal his identity.
In this way, the two began an academic exchange that lasted for nearly a year, and Alex's novel ideas amazed Seymour and stimulated him to develop faster computers. At this time, IBM also silently began to work on the research of transistor computers, and they invested tens of millions of dollars in it.
It wasn't until a year later that Seymour learned that Alex was the one who wrote to him, and he was really stunned. He doesn't deny that there are geniuses in this world, but when Tiancai really appeared in front of him, the feeling was really hard to describe.
While Alex and Bart were busy forming a computer research team, their movie "Little Fugitives" was finally released.