"Are they all mechanical computers this time?" Ai Zhixin asked with concern. To be honest, he was not convinced about the combination of "mechanical" and "computer". Cai Jinkou has used several hand-operated mechanical computers.
The effect was unsatisfactory. Not to mention it was stupid, rude, and often malfunctioned. But he had to admit that even so, the efficiency of this thing was much higher than that of a manual abacus.
"There are also some electronic computers." Feng Nuo said hesitantly when talking about "electronic computers." This "electronic computer" was "built" by the IT department using components such as microcontrollers in stock - for most people,
It is said that it is impossible to regard a bunch of messy circuit boards as a "computer".
"That's good. The hand-cranked computer we use at Caijinkou is only so-so when used, but the failure rate is too high." Ai Zhixin shook his head and said, "Of course, it is much faster than computer calculations, but it can't
Automatic summarization does not have statistical functions, and you have to manually summarize and fill in the form - the error in this is huge."
The more people who handle the numbers, the greater the chance of error.
"So what we brought this time was a 'computer,' not a 'calculator,'" said Vonnno. "Where is our office located? This set of things is not small."
"Director Liu's opinion is that your office should be located in the big world first. As for the computing center - there are many houses in Guangzhou, but most of the decent ones are government temples and the like. They are all over a hundred years old, and they are leaky and moldy.
There are a lot of them, and there are a lot of rats and insects, so it is not suitable for your placement of precision equipment - so I plan to place it in Guangzhou New District on Henan Island."
It is no secret that Henan Island will be planned as a new urban area in Guangzhou. The planning map has been out for a long time. In a sense, all the agencies currently working in the old city of Guangzhou are "temporary".
"How long will it take to build the computer room on Henan Island?" Feng Nuo was very concerned about this matter.
"The computer room is basically completed, but the conditions on Henan Island are relatively poor. It's basically a large rural area." Ai Zhixin said, "Actually, I think it's pretty good. The city of Guangzhou is now full of digs, which is no better than the countryside.
Where to go."
Feng Nuo and the others originally didn't have much interest in this medieval city. Especially after seeing the reports about plague and epidemics, they were completely indifferent to the old city of Guangzhou. When they heard that the computer room had been built, they immediately said that tomorrow
You can move there.
"Don't be anxious," Ai Zhixin waved his hand and said, "You can rest in the big world for a few days first."
After seeing Ai Zhixin off, Feng Nuo and Xu Laowu had had enough "rest" on the ship - basically they slept as soon as they got on the ship, or even if they couldn't fall asleep, they would just lie down.
Walking and chatting in the inner world of the world. Looking to the future of the Southern Computing Center.
"Logically speaking, this computing center should be equipped with servers - after all, Guangzhou will be our capital in the next few years. Is it really feasible to use this thing?" Xu Yicheng finally couldn't help but say what he had always wanted to say.
The computing center that Xu Yicheng manages in Lingao is roughly based on servers from the old time and space. Although he is not a professional hardware technician, he is very aware of the huge generation gap between electronic computers and mechanical computers. This computer is said to be made by the Senate.
The first practical mechanical computer. In terms of computing power alone, let alone the world's first electronic computer ENIAC, even the mechanical relay computer designed by the German Jusser was far behind.
Xu Yicheng participated in the development process of this computer in Lingao. In his opinion, it should at least be upgraded to a relay computer to have practical value.
"Actually, we don't have many servers left that can be used - if you don't count the systems that are sealed and backed up in Gaoshanling - you know those systems are actually impossible to put into daily use."
The final backup system of Gaoshanling is the last resort that can save and read the vast amounts of data in the Great Library. The Senate hopes to use them to support the "dark age" of computers. It will not be used under any circumstances at the moment.
"Our IT department has a plan to use ARM to build computing servers - the East-West Planning Institute has a container in reserve, and there will be no problem in using it until the day we can reproduce tube or transistor computers. The key is that our peripherals are about to die.
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Whether it's a keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, printer... these things all have a lifespan, and the Planning Institute's reserves are naturally not inexhaustible.
Without peripherals, servers are meaningless. But now the requirements for big data processing are expanding day by day. In terms of demographics and household registration alone, the expansion of data processing volume brought about by the capture of Guangdong has increased by a geometric amount.
class.
"So we have to use punch cards?"
"That's right." Feng Nuo said, "Of course." After saying that, he fell into deep thought, and his thoughts returned to the stumbling past of developing computers.
Ten months ago.
"...PR14 is blocked. Dr. Zhong, you're lucky, it's just a current-limiting circuit that's blocked. I remember there was a spare..." Feng Nuo said, standing up from his chair and walking to an iron in the corner of the room.
In front of the cabinet. The iron cabinet was placed on a white stubble wooden table that looked relatively new. The height was exactly the same as Feng Nuo's upper body. Zhong Lishi saw that the iron cabinet was about half a meter high, half a meter deep, and one meter long.
A lot of surface paint has been chipped off, only the handle is polished and the keyhole is in the middle of the double door. It looks like an old item that was moved from the Fengcheng ship. It is probably the locker in the original crew dormitory.
Nowadays, steel plants and machinery factories can also roll out cabinets of the same specifications, and there are many in Zhong Lizhi's office and warehouse. But for some reason, compared with those brought by the original time and space, even compared with such old goods,
This time and space product feels rough, but I can’t tell what is wrong. Zhong Lishi remembered how he felt when he first went to the United States to study in the 1990s and compared American products with domestic company products. In this regard, his watches
The situation is even more serious with battery products. "Maybe it will be better in a few years," he thought to himself. "In the old time of 2000, Made in China would have taken the world by storm."
Feng Nuo took out the key and opened the cabinet door. There were not many things in the cabinet. There was a pile of printed materials that were not neat, mixed with a lot of handwritten materials and drawings, a few light bulbs, a roll of solder, and several self-sealing plastics.
bags and several iron boxes. Feng Nuo took out one of the mottled Xinghualou mooncake boxes, opened the lid, and took out a paper package. The paper package was covered with a blurred black stamp: Forbidden to eat.
--Obviously a product of this time and space. Zhong Lishi recognized it as a desiccant manufactured by a chemical factory.
Feng Nuo closed the cabinet door, walked back to the table, took the box to the work table, and shook it under the desk lamp. The few components inside made a clattering sound. He picked up one of them and looked at it for a moment, shook his head and started again.
He threw it back, and then said: "It doesn't seem to be suitable, so I'd better not change it for you casually." He stopped and thought about it, and showed a pitiful look when he saw Zhong Li, and hurriedly continued, "Last month Shenhe
My computer is broken, and it is also a Sony. It seems that the model is similar, maybe an old model. His problem is quite serious. The screen distortion caused by the weak soldering of the screen wires cannot be solved with a soldering iron. We don’t have special equipment and materials now, and we don’t have any.
A clean room is definitely out of the question.
Zhong Lishi understood it and felt that Feng Nuo was a bit verbose. He just asked him to go to Lin Shenhe's to look at the scrapped motherboard to see if similar components had been replaced, which laid the foundation for such a big talk. He was a little anxious.
He was worried that Lin Shenhe's broken computer was no longer in hand. Just as he was about to answer the call, Feng Nuo continued, "Shenhe went to Gaoshanling to scrap the computer, and happened to meet Feng Zongze who was going to store the computer. He has been away from Lingao all year round. If it weren't for this
He won't come back from the Second Plenary Session, and the computer he brought with him is not used much, so he plans to store it in Gaoshanling..." Zhong Lishi saw that he brought up Feng Zongze again, and said quickly: "Then I'll ask Shenhe, in a few days
I may need your help to take a look, thank you in advance." After saying that, he quickly left the room.
Feng Nuo was stunned for a moment, and had to swallow the gossip about Shen He borrowing a computer from Feng Zongze. He thought that it would be difficult for Dr. Zhong to get Lin Shenhe's old computer parts. This man's computer had been scrapped because it could not be repaired.
, in fact, the ownership has belonged to the Planning Yuan and the Senate.
Since time travel, as time goes by, more and more of the elders' personal items from old time and space have been scrapped. The elders are generally very sentimental about these items, especially computers and other Zentraedi technology products that are unlikely to be resurrected in their lifetimes.
Most of them hope to store them in a more professional storage environment such as the Controlled Materials Warehouse of the Planning Institute. Putting them in the hot and humid environment of senior apartments or offices will only accelerate damage.
In order to preserve the technology of the old space and time, the Planning Institute also provides paid recycling services for veterans of the old space and time.
Although the recycling conditions offered by the Planning Institute are very attractive, they are often high-end special items from the new space and time, as well as some office supplies from the old space and time, food and luxury goods that have expired or are about to expire, etc. Many people still hope to rent at the Planning Institute warehouse.
A sealed safe to store these old things, waiting for the slim chance of seeing the light of day again.
However, electronic and electrical items such as computers are not within the scope of storage services. Once the maintenance personnel confirm that they cannot be repaired, they will be forced to enter the scrapping process, so that the Planning Institute can dismantle these waste equipment to obtain more spare parts.
.Although most electronic equipment now uses large-scale integrated circuits, and there are not many components that can be disassembled, one more spare part increases the possibility of repairing other equipment. This is a decrease in the number of electronic and electrical equipment that are constantly being damaged.