For the people of the new millennium, the twentieth century, which has completely disappeared, is a silent, dull and bizarre era.

After all, the emergence of the mobile Internet has given ordinary people the flow of information and a colorful world anytime and anywhere, making people feel like living in a global village.

But in fact, the development of science and technology in the twentieth century was very rapid, but in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, there was a stagnation in science and technology, and scientists were only tinkering with the original technology.

The advent of computers has changed human life, so interconnected computers are equivalent to changing the world.

Back in the seventies of the twentieth century, the concept of local area networks appeared. By the nineties, it matured rapidly.

Xiao Jinlang brought in a group of industrial consultants over the age of 50 to help plan the industrial route.

The gray-haired old men gave Zhou Qingfeng a lot of stimulation. He wanted to get a younger and more energetic technical team.

Anyway, the uncle has money, so why not spend it to recruit people?

Since all the people who have spent a lot of money have come, we must give them the best equipment.

As the saying goes, 'a good horse with a good saddle', no matter what the technician originally did, a mobile phone and computer for each person is standard.

But......

Mobile phones are easy to say.

Because of the large-scale use of 'Shengguang Machinery', the mobile communication equipment introduced by Tianyang Post and Telecommunications Bureau at a large cost has greatly diluted the cost.

Originally, the network access fee of five or six thousand yuan was given to Zhou Qingfeng at a special price of three thousand.

But the computer is a bit of a problem.

At present, personal computers are still in the popularization stage, and networking is a trendy application.

Zhou Qingfeng buys 10 tons of electronic waste every week, and after specifying that he wants to scrap computers, he finds that what he got this time is a bit too complicated.

Yishui's nineteen-inch monitor, bulky but atmospheric, looks at it and is high-grade.

Six or seven hundred chassis, all of which are the latest 486 mainstream configurations. There are also more than two dozen miscellaneous servers, routers, hubs, and discarded network cables.

These things are a little bit harder.

The server market in the 90s was particularly chaotic, with different chips and systems. Many manufacturers were eliminated in the following years, and it was difficult to find information.

Zhou Qingfeng is okay with 486, and he is really at a loss for miscellaneous equipment.

It is said that it doesn't matter if you use it alone. But the 486 is already a high-end product. Being able to network but not being able to network always makes people feel that it is too wasteful.

More importantly, Zhou Qingfeng wants to use the information center to strengthen the company's management, so as not to be entangled by a bunch of trivial matters every day. This requires the intervention of professionals.

When Shi Wei was called, there were already five or six researchers from different units in the auditorium on the first floor of the mechanical and electrical building of the metallurgical institute.

These people are in their thirties and forties, which is the peak of energy and experience. All of them have graduated from famous universities in China and have lived in the third line for more than ten years, and now is the time to let them play a role.

Stitch usually uses mainframe machines, both domestic and imported. He is more familiar with the UNIX system, and he really plays the high-end application of large data volume computing. However, when he walked into the auditorium of the mechanical and electrical building, his heart was still fluttering.

The auditorium was cleared of an open space and filled with 'e-waste' that Zhou Qingfeng had trucked in.

'486', it's all '486'.

The computing power of this thing is comparable to that of a mainframe ten years ago.

A computer costs tens of thousands, and this mess of '486' piled up like a pile of garbage, isn't it tens of millions of units? How can tens of millions of dollars be so wasted?

Zhou Qingfeng has recently gotten too many things to repair.

Electronics don't break easily. Unless it is a product that is taken out and sold for money, he is too lazy to repair the equipment at home.

Anyway, it's just a little more dusty, and you can still run after powering up.

If there are a few that can't run.

If you can't run, throw it aside first, and then repair it when you have time.

Therefore, the computer host in front of Shi Wei was like a bankrupt Internet café clearance sale, and it was piled up all over the place. Some of the chassis are deflated, the shell is broken, and it seems to be scrap metal.

Shi Wei and the others were arrested as coolies and saw 'scrap metal' all over the ground...... No, there are high-tech crystallizations all over the ground, and they are distressed to death.

Shi Wei hurriedly called his lover over, and then several other people also seemed to suddenly realize, and they also called friends, attracting thirty or forty people to clean up the mess together.

Stitch moved a few cases, opened the lid and saw that it was full of dust. Blow casually, cover your eyes and pungent. But wipe off the dust and look closely, he sighed: "It's all good things, it's ruined, it's really bad." ”

The '486' class of CPUs is cross-generational.

In the past, '386' could only use DOS, but '486' could run the window interface.

For Shi Wei, who often runs calculations, the computing power of any computer is precious and cannot be wasted.

Zhou Qingfeng originally wanted to command and give some tasks or something.

But Shi Wei and the others who rushed to the scene were all attracted by the computers all over the ground, and they didn't pay much attention to President Zhou. His Excellency the President scratched his head, closed his mouth very wisely, and slipped away.

Shi Wei and the others don't need to command at all.

Dozens of people worked together and cleared out more than 200 chassis in the middle of the night. They connected the case to the monitor, powered it on one by one, and 95 percent of the computers were still working properly.

When 200 units of the 486 were still in use, there was a continuous cheer in the auditorium where the 'garbage' was piled up. Everyone has an inexplicable joy of picking up a treasure and a full sense of achievement.

What a treasure to find!

Even if it is cheaper, a fully equipped 486 will cost 30,000 yuan, which is equivalent to picking up 6 million from the garbage heap.

Six million is almost enough to start a small scientific research project, not a small amount of money.

People who didn't know each other were celebrating, and even though the dirty 'e-waste' had left them covered in dust, everyone was happy.

It wasn't until this moment that Shi Wei remembered why he came to the mechanical and electrical building.

"Eh......, where's Mr. Zhou?"

Everyone looked left and right and found that they had done such a beautiful thing, but there was no leader to praise them.

Shi Wei scratched his head and thought about it carefully, as if he really didn't see 'Mr. Zhou'. Anyway, when he entered the auditorium, he was attracted by this pile of 'garbage'.

"Are these personal computers smuggled by Mr. Zhou?"

"It should be. Maybe it's through a special channel. ”

"Our mission is to clean up the smuggled goods?"

"That's not bad, either." The 486' is the best personal computer available today, and many scientific research institutes don't have such good equipment. ”

How valuable is a computer? Many colleges and universities spend a lot of money to buy it and are reluctant to use it, for fear that it will be used badly.

It's the first time I've seen Zhou Qingfeng throw it on the ground casually.

Now that you've cleaned up 200 units, you can't just put them on the ground, right?

After everyone is excited, they don't know what to do next? They looked left and right and wanted to find a leader to ask for instructions, and computers worth millions should be guarded by special personnel.

Even though it was late at night, Swift reached for the mobile phone he was carrying. He didn't think much about it, and called back Zhou Qingfeng's number.

After a long beep, a lazy voice sounded, "Hey......?" ”

"Is it Mr. Zhou?" Shi Wei was a little apprehensive, "We've cleaned out half of those PCs, shouldn't we send someone to guard them next?" ”

"Oh......, so fast?"

The lazy voice was a little surprised.

"I want you to clean those computers and use the servers to form an internal LAN. You're a historian, right? That's up to you, okay? ”

Men can't say no!

Looking at the large pile of computer cases still piled up in the corner, the fun of picking up trash seems to be contagious.

Shi Wei suddenly gave birth to a heroic ambition to accept the order in danger, "Of course. I'll leave that to me. ”