A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Chapter 382 The prototype of modern office work.

Fortunately, when the senior disciples from Yunnan and Guizhou entered the DOS source code, they still used the English names. Through the disk drive's location commands, Xiao Dai Mao saw familiar words.

“testfilm”

It's it!

"gettestfilm!"

Oh ho ho, tremble, mortals!

Looking at the progress bar on the screen, Jiang Xia laughed arrogantly.

That smile immediately drew everyone's attention back to the present.

"Hey, this little strip is pretty fun!"

Yeah, it's pretty fun, even funnier when it gets stuck. But this frustrating situation doesn't happen with direct phone lines. Although the speed is still measured in bytes.

220 bytes/second, tell me, isn't that fast!

This is because Jiangxia's modem already integrates frequency shift keying technology; otherwise, the speed would probably be even more disappointing.

"Xiao Jiang! Your program can actually use graphics to express meaning?"

"Although I don't know what you're doing, judging from this icon, isn't it showing the file transfer status?" Teacher Peishu asked, pointing to the slowly moving progress bar on the screen.

"Yes! This is also one direction we'll take in developing future systems: a graphical interface! Isn't it simple and clear? This way, even people who haven't studied related computer knowledge can easily get started..."

While waiting for the file to be transferred, Xiao Daimao, based on his own experience from later generations, explained to everyone the direction of computer development.

Isn't the defining characteristic of Chinese scientists: you make the PowerPoint presentation, and I'll implement it?

Go ahead and brag all you want; the approach is right anyway. Let the big shots handle the rest. When they finally develop a microcontroller, that little guy's dream of automated control will finally be on the agenda.

Hmph! I'm a mechanical engineer, I won't steal your jobs... Aren't five-axis machine tools better? Aren't gas turbines more fun? I don't want to go back to welding enameled wires!

Little Dai Mao, filled with longing for a better future, spoke even more enthusiastically.

Everyone listened intently, pulling out their notebooks and burying themselves in taking notes, momentarily forgetting that the file transfer on the computer was about to complete.

Seeing Jiangxia begin to "lecture," Old Wang bent over and tugged at his father.

"Dad, let's go to the boss's place. It's too dangerous here!"

"Danger my foot! I told you not to study properly, didn't you understand? Let me tell you, Jiang's theory can also be used in our telecommunications industry. Especially what he said about using tone to represent 1 and 0, isn't that a basic solution for implementing program-controlled telephones?"

Minister Wang glanced at his son with disdain. "Tsk," he thought, "I suddenly feel like I've spoiled him. Can we switch him with that kid over there?"

"Get out of here! A bad pen is worse than a good memory..."

"No! You get down!"

As he spoke, Minister Wang pulled Old Wang over, laid his notebook directly on his back, and took notes while occasionally discussing things with the researcher next to him.

Old Wang was in tears, partly because his back really hurt, and partly because...

Dad, you told me to go to the side, why did you pull me to be the table again?

When he turned around and found Secretary Liu, Secretary Liu smiled and gestured to him.

"156 items! Are you IDCPC people so idle? Just because the list was exposed, you can't just stay at home and keep messing with us!"

You all need to stand up straight and go wreak havoc on Big Nose. I don't want to hear it, no, I don't want to memorize it... Waaah..."

……

Alright, file transfer complete!

The reason it was so slow was that Jiang Xia, without any real understanding, simply copied down the entire contents of the tape. After all, the tape's title was "Testfilm."

With a full 1.8MB of content, how could it not be slow! Luckily, we had a dedicated phone line, otherwise the progress bar would have stopped at 99%, which would have been incredibly embarrassing.

Close the FTP client program and then open the Chinese editor.

"Oh my god! They really copied all the contents of Unit 1 over!"

"Yes, look here, I added this annotation myself..."

"Hey! Why are you so surprised! This machine is brand new; it wasn't programmed with anything like that!"

"Doesn't that prove that Engineer Jiang succeeded?"

The murmurs abruptly ceased, and everyone looked at each other.

Then an even louder cheer erupted, the sound shaking the glass next to them.

"Hahaha! In that case, we don't need to send anyone to deliver the program tapes anymore. Once the computer is unfolded, we can directly connect to the internet to obtain the relevant programs!"

"Yes! The idea of ​​losing data during long-distance transportation can be erased from our vocabulary!"

"what is this!"

"Have you forgotten what Engineer Jiang said earlier? If I had a computer at home, I could work online from home!"

"Pah, you're dreaming!" The reprimanded researcher scratched his head. "Of course, we should look on the bright side. Cleaning the furnace is a lot of work, and if you're not careful, you'll work overtime and the furnace will go out when you get home..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Ignoring the murmurs of the crowd, Minister Wang of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building pulled Jiang Xia aside and asked, "Is it one-way? Can it be transmitted in both directions?"

Jiang Xia gestured to Minister Wang of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building: "Of course, otherwise how could it be called the Internet? Why don't you edit a document now and send it over to try!"

Minister Wang of the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry unceremoniously began fiddling with the typewriter in front of him, which served as a keyboard. Minister Wang of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications also realized what was happening at that moment.

If the message sending function was just a small treat, then the file transfer function is the main attraction!

After all, the fastest way to transmit text at that time was by telegram. Converting telegrams back into text would take a considerable amount of time.

The machine in front of us only requires a few commands to generate a complete file!

And then there's the printer they're talking about. That thing is out now, and documents can be printed directly from paper!

This is absolutely fantastic!

If the post office had a few of these machines, wouldn't it be much more convenient for people queuing up at the post office windows to send telegrams?

Wait, something's not right, this thing can't only transmit this far, can it?

Minister Wang of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was getting impatient: "Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang! What is its communication range?"

"Uncle Wang, how far can your telephone communicate?"

"Ha! With a repeater amplifier, our phone calls can reach all the way to the Tianshan Mountains!"

"Wait a minute!" Minister Wang of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications finally realized and exclaimed, "It can go that far! That's incredibly useful!"

"Hmm! Theoretical distance. Uncle Wang, how about we do a test? We're using the line you just laid, which is a bit idealistic. Why don't you accompany Senior Brother Yungui to the Outer Jiao region to install this thing and see what the actual situation is?"

Jiang Xia was also a little worried. He didn't know if connecting this system to the existing telephone network would work. Although the experiment had been successful so far, things from the lab might not be suitable for real-world applications...

"Okay! Let's go now!"

Old Wang's father kicked aside Old Wang, who was still acting as a small table, and enthusiastically pulled up the senior brother from Yunnan and Guizhou: "Comrade, shall we go?"

The senior disciple from Yunnan and Guizhou picked up the remaining two circuit boards and took the operation code from Jiang Xia. He then called to the group members to follow Minister Wang.

As soon as Old Wang watched his father walk away, he jumped up as if nothing had happened.

"They're finally gone..."

"Just a few sticks, if I weren't worried about them shaking you, humph!"

After his arrogant outburst, Old Wang, oblivious to the danger, nudged Secretary Liu.

"You think you're so capable? Why don't you dare chase after him and make my dad recite the regulations!"

"Hey! Why are you crying?"

Secretary Liu's eyes were red: "I was thinking of our comrades outside. If they were of any use, we wouldn't have to risk our lives to deliver some messages!"

Old Wang was silent for a while, then looked at Jiang Xia, who was explaining something to Minister Wang of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

"Don't be afraid! Things will get better!"

Secretary Liu, with a heavy nasal voice, proudly raised her chin: "Yes! I have always firmly believed in this!"

"Give~"

"What?"

"If you can't memorize the new confidentiality regulations, you might as well just sleep here hugging this power cord..."

"Your uncle!"