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 go out of the United States and be sold overseas, and people all over the world know that there is such a transistor radio in the world, which is small and convenient, and the performance is very good.

The electronics company brought a lot of revenue to the Carpenter's family, even exceeding the income of the record company at one point. However, the money earned was quickly invested in research and development by Bart.

Now they have developed televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc., with transistors and integrated circuit boards as the main body, and more importantly, at Alex's suggestion, they have developed the first transistor computer!

CPT researchers were ahead of Bell Labs, and Dr. Shockley had been thinking about building transistor computers 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 and development 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 future world is the world of computers, and we can't 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 this 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 how to make their own computer, and in this, the most critical part is to make their own CPU. That CPU is made using a TTL integrated circuit, which is extremely simple.

Those who have studied digital logic and digital circuits will surely know that it is possible to implement a CPU by 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 technology house, which is very detailed, and there is even a detailed process of writing a Fabonacci program in C language 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.

Alex insisted on working on transistor computers, but in order to hide his face, he asked Bart to develop other transistor products.

He asked that his role in it not be revealed. His ultimate goal was to work on transistor computers, and with integrated circuit boards and drawings provided by Alex, this was not a problem at all for the R&D department led by Barthes.

The biggest skill of these R&D personnel is that they are super hands-on, 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 multi-process with a clock speed of up to 3MHz. An 8-bit address bus is also used, and each process has 128K address space, including 32 2K data 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" computers were built very quickly, and they passed rigorous tests without 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 had come from, and they had never heard of the company's name before.

The U.S. military 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. The transistor computer adds floating-point arithmetic on this basis, so that the absolute value of the data 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 10 times faster than the most advanced computers available, and even more! ”

The experts gathered around the transistor computer and let out a burst of exclamation!

They really didn't expect that there would be such a good and stable computer in the world. In their view, the advantages of this transistor computer such as small size, light weight, long life, high efficiency, low heat generation and low power consumption can not only cope with various high-tech research and development purposes, but also 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!" ”

A large number of orders have been pouring in, especially since the U.S. military has allocated a huge amount of money to Carpenter Electronics to develop a more advanced and practical computer according to the needs of the Wehrmacht 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 R&D, and he knew he didn't have anyone to do that.

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 R&D 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 development, Alex doesn't have to worry about anything at all, and this guy is a better fit than anyone else.

Alex tells Bart that while interacting with the university professors, he discovered that the student had a gifted talent for computers, and that he was sure Seymour Clay would be able to do what Bart asked.

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 and development work.

It just so happened that Seymour graduated from school with a master's degree in mathematics. When he didn't know what to do, his mentor suggested Seymour: "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." ”

At this time, the Engineering Research Association was working on computer design, and he was about to join ERA when CPT came to him to lead the development of 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 and development.

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." ”

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 a nearly year-long academic exchange, and Alex's novel ideas amazed Seymour and spurred him to develop a faster computer. At this time, IBM also silently began to work on the research and development 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 person who wrote to him, and he was really stunned. He didn't deny that there was a genius in this world, but when Tiancai really appeared in front of him, that feeling was really hard to describe.

While Alex and Bart were busy assembling a computer research and development team, their movie "Little Fugitives" was finally released.