For those of you who think of the computer as an ordinary work tool today, it is hard to imagine that when I first joined the work, the computer could not be placed in an ordinary office, but in a special computer room.

It was a luxuriously renovated room.

At that time, the decoration style was almost the same, and it was not known who was the first.

The wall should be made of plywood (young people nowadays should not know what it is) to make a circle of 1.2 meters high wall skirting, and then the roof should also be decorated with boards, because there is too much glue, basically the renovated house is very pungent, but at that time there was no concept of environmental protection at all, no one took it seriously.

On the wall of one of the main walls is a large zoomed-in photograph of landscape paintings, mostly waterfalls. The photograph is covered with a layer of plastic film, surrounded by three or four decorative strips, and the ceiling is a circle of perforated lights.

This is the style of decoration back then, whether it is a unit or a family.

Those who have the conditions to install it like this are basically the computer rooms of the unit, and there are almost no such installations at home. After all, for most people like me who earn more than 100 yuan a month, the decoration cost of tens of thousands of yuan is more astronomical than the astronomical amount, and I never dared to think about it.

There are two or three computers in the renovated computer room, the word computer room is written on the sign at the door, the windows in the room should be installed with at least two layers of thick opaque curtains, a thick red carpet should be laid on the ground, and slippers should be changed when entering the room.

At that time, the computer still used DOS commands, and the black screen could only display strings of English, and we didn't know what it could do, only that it was very high-end. It's a lot like the "writers", "painters" and "calligraphers" of today, we don't know what they say, what they paint, what they write, but they are just high-minded......

At that time, the computer was not even as good as a typewriter in our eyes, because it could not type - to be exact, it could not type Chinese, and if you wanted to type, you had to use something called a typewriter, and there were special typists. The earliest typewriter I've ever seen is supposed to be a lead typewriter, using a device that can move up and down, left and right, find the top of the word to be typed, press the key, and the word will be sucked up from the board with lead characters on the bottom, and typed onto wax paper (at that time, there were no printers, so you had to use wax paper for mimeographing). When I first arrived at the manager of the natural gas company, although the typing room had already used a four-way typewriter, which could display what was to be typed on one screen, this lead printer was still there, and there were still many lead words in the room for a long time, and it was not eliminated at the first time.

This is the four-way typewriter used back then, and it was eliminated by the computer in a few years. New things, new habits, new uses, and the elimination of old ones is really ruthless! is like a popular phrase on the Internet a few years ago: "When the times abandon you, you don't even say hello." What do I have to do with you if I want to destroy you? ”

Ran away again.

Then after some time, someone invented a set of operating system, called UCDOS, every time I turned on the computer, I typed these five letters, then you can type Chinese characters, and there are also a few random software, at that time you can choose one is WPS, one is Word, and there is a software called CCED that can write tables.

I still remember that I used the WPS word processing system interface under UCDOS for a while, the reason why this version was only used for a while, is because it was quickly eliminated by windows, this must be recorded, the memory of the year!

It is also worth recording the five-stroke font input method that I learned during this period. Initially, because there is a typing room for the article with a lot of words,So there is not much need to type yourself,I once thought that pinyin typing was enough,Later, because I always write,Playing annoying,I learned to type in double spelling,Turn some ong or something into a key,The speed is a lot faster. Later, I saw that the typists used five strokes, curious, looked at the root, the memory of the year was really good, not a few times to remember, tried it, basically can be played, some can not be typed and then switch back to pinyin is not too late, so finally practiced into a five-stroke font input.

I used to boast about my typing speed during my show-off years, and I was pretty proud that I could type at a basically normal pace and keep up with my speaking speed.

It's a pity that the current iFLYTEK voice can basically recognize 99% of what is said, including punctuation. The times began again ruthlessly, and when the speed of typing was abandoned, no one told me except Director Tian of our unit. I'm going to keep a low profile because my typing speed is no longer worth bragging about.

I use WPS, I am familiar with it (from the DOS version to WPS97, WPS2000 and then I have been using it until now, and I am almost not used to using word), and I always thought that the computer was a larger typewriter, until I met a colleague in the finance department of our unit.

That night, I happened to see him operating on a computer in the unit, it was a picture I had never seen before, although the picture was still black and white (the earliest computer monitors were black and white), but there was a small person on it, and he could still run, and he would jump when he encountered some obstacles. Then he went into a room with three bottles on the table, only to hear this colleague explain that only one of them was an antidote, it was random, and then picked a bottle for the villain to drink, luck was not with him, the villain fell, and the game was over. This little scene, which is entirely in English, is a picture of the PC version of the game that I first came into contact with, and I still remember it vividly almost thirty years later.

After the villain falls, he has to start again, walk little by little, jump one obstacle after another, the keyboard operation (there was no mouse at that time) is very troublesome, and the colleague may be impatient, so he shuts down and leaves.

That's when I realized that a computer was more than just a typewriter.

But because the graphics are simple and still in black and white, they didn't interest me, so I still play with my game console.

In just two or three years, Microsoft has opened a window for us.

It should be 1995.

Five years after I joined the job.

I don't know when the computer screen changed from black and white to color, from a large printer to something that can do a lot of things, and slowly became a must-have item for a family, and all this happened unconsciously.

The motivations of the people who first bought the computer must have been different. But just spending more than 10,000 yuan to buy a computer just because of a game, I believe I should be considered unique.

In 1996, Heluo Studio developed a Chinese martial arts RPG (role-playing) game "The Legend of Jin Yong's Heroes", adapted from 14 martial arts novels written by Jin Yong.

I should have read the news from the computer newspaper back then.

As a fan of Jin Yong, I was attracted immediately.

At that time, computers were not as standard in the office as they are now, not to mention that to play this game, you need a model of 386 or more, and at that time, our unit computer room did not have such a high configuration.

There is no way, if you want to play this game, you can only buy it yourself. After gritting his teeth, he bought the most advanced 486 at that time for 12,000 yuan, according to Yin Mingchao, who sold me the computer, this computer felt like flying (he later immigrated to Canada, this is the first god-level person I admired, he once typed a line of code under the DOS command to make a beautiful illustrated English learning software, there was no visual interface at that time, but unfortunately the window eliminated him and still didn't say hello, When I opened the window interface many times back then, I imagined the helplessness of his so many years of hard work and no usable place, but I believe that the great god is the great god and will definitely come again).

That's a great configuration. In addition to the popular 3.5-inch floppy disk and 5.25-inch soft area at that time (young people nowadays almost don't know what it looks like), especially the configuration of 420M hard disk (386 models before the hard disk did not have a hard disk), this is an epoch-making progress, it is said that it can easily store all the books in the British and American Museum (before I can start to find the door of the museum, 586 has been eliminated, time is ......).

I remember in 1983 I saw an issue in a magazine (which I still keep) published the news that the United States had made a breakthrough in science and technology and invented a 20M computer hard drive, which cost $400,000 at the time. Be content, I use 21 times bigger than this, and the price is equal to that of cabbage.

Starting from this computer, I started the mode that my home computer is much higher than the configuration of the unit computer (I don't convert the cigarette money to update the computer regularly). So until now, the computer in the unit is still far less advanced than the configuration at home.

58 yuan bought genuine software let me be in exploration mode for several months,Because the game is multi-clue and multi-plot development,There is no unified clearance mode,As long as you find all 14 books,Which book to find first and then which one can progress at will except for some limited order,There is no limit to which NPC recruits on the rivers and lakes for Jin Yong's charactersNPCs,Even if you want to be a good person, fight the rivers and lakes or do evil as a bad person, it's all up to the player.。 Of course, some books will be difficult, some books will be easy, some characters are very powerful, some are very mediocre, some are necessary and some are dispensable, which all require a little understanding, try again and again, step by step strategy, during which naturally Zhao Yuhua often comes, studies with me, suffers together, and cheers together!

Slowly we found 13 books.

It's definitely impossible to remember what day it is, but what I can remember is around 12 o'clock at night, I don't care if he sleeps or not, I just call him and tell him that I found the 14th book, and I will definitely be able to clear the customs today.

As I thought, he immediately told me to take a timeout and he came right over.

After coming over, we arranged all the books in the corresponding grid in the order of "Flying Snow Shoots White Deer in the Sky, and the Laughing Book Hero Leans on the Blue Mandarin", and then the final bosses appear.

Dialogue, manipulation, one by one, and finally the protagonist returns from this world to his real world!

Can't get enough of it! Just like all of Jin Yong's works!

Years later, this game is still a classic in my mind, so much so that I have now changed my phone for many generations, but the ringtone has always been the theme music of this "Legend of Jin Yong's Heroes"!

Because almost all of my energy in the past few months has been on this game, I know that the charm of the game and my self-control are not of the same magnitude, so I haven't dared to touch computer games again for two or three years after clearing the customs, but I know that during this period, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Age of Empires", "Red Alert", "Three Kingdoms", "Need for Speed", "Thunderbolt" and so on are countless, but I haven't downloaded it once (the word download here is not accurate, It should be said that I didn't buy the installation CD once - at that time, almost all the software had to be bought by all means, there was no computer city at that time, and many installation CDs were bought from a friend of Zhao Yuhua, which should not be cheap. ）

Because I still know that the charm of the game is not the same as my own self-control!

Not to mention these well-made, fascinating large-scale games, even the mines that come with Windows, poker, which can basically be regarded as pediatric games, will also make people linger, and an hour or two has passed in the blink of an eye.

I'm sure no one will resist the temptation!

So for the lady who doesn't like and has hardly played the game, I only have a capital letter! At the same time, he kept brainwashing her, a life without a game is not a complete life, and I look forward to the day when I get old and can play with her and play tanks.

That scene will definitely be what friends who have asked for to see me write about love in the past few days are looking forward to!

Although the big games are no longer downloaded, some of the smaller ones are harmless!

Tetris, for example!

I have worked in the gas company for 8 years, except for the first two years at the grassroots level, I have worked in the agency! In addition to learning the natural gas characteristic of the hook (a poker game) in the game, another memorable thing is this "Tetris"!

I silently recalled that it should be seven different blocks falling from the top of the screen, and then the operator turns and moves it to put it in the right place, and then moves on to the next one, so that they can spell out one or several pieces at the bottom of the screen (up to four at a time). The full bars disappear to make room for the newly fallen blocks, and the player is rewarded with points. The blocks that have not been eliminated are piled up, and once they reach the top of the screen, the player loses and the game ends.

The speed of the drop is not static, the speed on the computer is 1-9, 9 gears, not the speed 9 is the highest, but no matter how high it is, it no longer reflects the number, but the speed is still constantly increasing!

The reason why I remember this game on a game console more than ten years ago is because the gas man starts at 9, and the computer can adjust the fastest speed directly! At this time, I watched the blocks on the screen fall quickly, and the players adjusted the rotation with their left hand, adjusted the direction with their right hand, and quickly placed these blocks, and the next ones disappeared quickly, and the score rose straight after a while, and the people who watched were dazzled!

I tried it once, but no, I can't do it, and this game is relatively monotonous, so I didn't spend time practicing, so I can only retain my admiration for them!

Single-player games are basically the occasional mine digging (which I've always loved), and my record of 99 mines is 89 seconds! No one around me has ever seen anyone faster than me!

Still afraid to download the new big game!

One day, when the family was having dinner, they talked about the fact that my brother-in-law had gone out to do a task one day because of a power outage at home, but he just laughed it off and didn't care! Even though the online game called "Legends" was popular for a generation, I still didn't dare to download it!

Until I met "Journey"......