RPAGF #459 - Unprecedented popularity
#459 - Unprecedented popularity
"Director Yang, we can find a place in the exhibition hall for this group technical discussion meeting, but for the first day of the Global Computer Conference, we have more than 5,000 guests from home and abroad. It's hard to find a venue. Originally, we thought about finding a large movie theater, but the largest movie theater only has 1,800 seats. In addition, the largest auditoriums of various government agencies do not exceed 2,000 seats, let alone accommodate 5,000 people.
It seems that we need to find a stadium to build the main venue temporarily." After running around various venues in Yandu for a few days, the person in charge of the conference venue reported the venue information to Professor Yang Zhenjun.
Professor Yang had no choice but to pass the unexpected problem to Ren Zhong.
Ren Zhong thought for a while and called Staff Officer Ye, asking him to coordinate the venue matters.
Staff Officer Ye took this far-reaching event very seriously. After organizing a report from the organizing committee, he took on the problem.
Staff Officer Ye is very reliable.
He confirmed the venue in just two days.
"A hall for ten thousand people?!" Ren Zhong's heart skipped a beat when he saw the request document approved by Staff Officer Ye. It was really awesome.
Ren Zhong knew that it was not easy to find a large enough place to accommodate 5,000 people for a conference. There was almost no other choice but a stadium.
Besides, it would be a bit low to transform the stadium. Although there are more than enough seats in the stadium, the current playback technology cannot simultaneously broadcast the surrounding scenes. Putting the main venue in a transformed stadium would undoubtedly be a bit low, and it would not match the high standards of the first international conference.
Staff Officer Ye directly coordinated and got a super auditorium that can accommodate 10,000 people, which solved the major problem of the conference at once, and raised the standards of the first Global Computer Conference to the maximum!
Not to mention that Professor Yang Zhenjun didn't expect to hold a meeting in such a large place, even Ren Zhong didn't expect it.
After solving the venue problem, the next step was to devote himself to organizing the slides for the technical exchange and the selection of the main speakers.
The lectures in this era are relatively primitive. There are no computer PPTs, nor projectors that can be connected to computers. Only relatively simple slide projectors are used to project slides.
These projected slides are all made by hand, and each one is quite difficult.
If you want to explain a lot of content, it takes a lot of effort to make the slides one by one. Therefore, in terms of content selection, the scientists who give these keynote speeches must select the most important content, and then carefully design the content and patterns. After designing and arranging these contents on the design draft, professional personnel will carefully design and produce these contents into slides, which will be released during the conference.
Especially the design of computer architecture and computer interfaces. If there is no diagram to display them, it is difficult to explain them clearly in language. Since it is an open source standard, this technology-based conference must explain the key things to the participants clearly, so that they can assemble this personal computer using Dongda's CPU, memory stick, floppy disk and software operating system according to this standard. As for the computer case, motherboard, computer power supply, peripheral input devices and display devices, everyone is allowed to customize them freely.
In this way, each computer may have a different appearance, but in the core part, it still comes from Dongda's kernel.
Of course, it is not easy to make these participating technical experts and scholars understand the basic principles.
Therefore, in the preparation of special technology, the technical working group spent a lot of effort to screen the content to be explained. It is necessary to ensure that key technologies are not leaked out, so that these people can innovate on the basis of these technologies, which would be troublesome. At the same time, these people should be able to follow our rhythm and take the technical route of compatible machines, and guide their thinking on the connection of peripherals. After all, there are too many things that computers need to connect to in terms of peripherals.
Printers and fax machines, these conventional office equipment need to be connected, and more broadly in industrial integrated control, with this compact computer structure of personal computers, the industrial control software is frankly speaking, intelligent machine tools are easier to customize than transistor computers.
Ren Zhong's idea is to let these people put their energy into the expansion of these applications, and popularize the use of computers to homes and factories as quickly as possible.
We can also benefit from this technological iteration process.
The widespread application of computers, although it will lead to the disappearance of some jobs and the reduction of some positions, can greatly improve the labor efficiency of many jobs. For the improvement of the productivity of the entire world, it has a very strong positive effect. With this thing, the impact on the development process of world science and technology may provide a buffer for the occurrence of a short-term economic crisis in the great powers.
If the economic crisis of the great powers is delayed, in Ren Zhong's view, the time for peaceful development of the entire world will be longer, which is very beneficial to Dongda, which urgently needs development space.
According to the current peaceful development, Dongda is not only making rapid progress in technology, but many fields are starting from scratch, and gradually under the influence of Ren Zhong's import, new technologies are rapidly iterating, realizing a high-speed development model of 2-3 years of iteration and optimization of one generation. In this way, our technology development speed is developing in a double-speed manner, and it will not take long to catch up with the level of the Liangjian world.
Releasing the big move of personal computers, I don't know if it can change some historical trends and enter a prosperous period in advance to strive for a peaceful and developing external environment.
Jack and Peter are a medium-sized electronic equipment supplier in North America. After the boss saw the personal computer released by Dongda, he immediately took a fancy to it. After internal discussions, they confirmed that if Dongda really opened up the relevant technology of personal computers, they would be fully capable of designing a new personal computer for sale!
After all, a computer with office functions for less than 2,000 US dollars, although the price is a bit expensive, it already has the cost performance of popularization compared to transistor computers.
So, this global computer conference convened by Dongda University saw the company sending Jack and Peter to Dongda to study and obtain relevant technical information. Both Jack and Peter were technical backbones in their 30s and key designers of the company's electronic products, possessing profound electronic technology skills, especially in circuit design.
A mere conference fee and material cost of less than $2,000 was nothing to them, much less than the airfare of this era. Compared to developing a new product, this expense was negligible.
When Peter and Jack traveled thousands of miles to the Dongda conference registration desk,
both technicians were a little dumbfounded.
"Jack, are all these people here to attend the conference?" Peter asked, a little stunned, looking at the long line ahead, filled with fair-haired, blue-eyed individuals.
Jack was also a bit bewildered. He never dreamed that so many people would attend this conference!
Because there was no internet yet, registration information was communicated individually with the conference organizers via telegram. Before the conference, the organizers did not publicize the registration information. Of course, this was their first time doing this, and they didn't realize that making this registration information public would cause a huge sensation.
And Ren Zhong didn't pay attention to these things all the time, so when Professor Yang Zhenjun received the statistics showing several thousand people attending, he was overwhelmed with joy. Besides reporting the good news to Ren Zhong, he didn't take any other extra actions.
But the registration time was only two or three days, so it was inevitable that there would be a long line at the registration desk.
After all, they had to verify the identity information of the registrants, checking against their passports, and also collect fees, so the process couldn't be fast. Even though the staff was doubled and three registration channels were opened, there was still a long line.
Jack looked at the reception desk for the Global Computer Conference written in English at the front of the line, and the address was correct. "That's right, this is where we registered." After speaking, Jack asked a blonde-haired man with an afro in front of him in line, "Sir, are you registering for the Global Computer Conference?"
"Yes, are you here to attend this conference too?" the blonde-haired man with an afro replied, "Brother, judging from your accent, are you from New York?"
"Yes, we are from Cytek Electronics Technology Company in New York. My name is Jack, and his name is Peter," Jack didn't expect to meet a fellow countryman.
"My name is Whitman, and I'm from Tyco Electronics Company in New York. It seems we have common ideas about personal computers," the blonde-haired man with an afro said with a smile.
He didn't feel unhappy at all because they were potential competitors.
"Yes, we have studied the functions of this personal computer proposed by Dongda University, and our company is very optimistic about its future. We have a great idea and plan to make a big splash with the functions of this personal computer," Peter said excitedly, meeting a fellow countryman in a foreign land.
However, he didn't say exactly what they were going to do.
For Cytek Company, they have their own customer base and service areas.
"That's right, we also have many great ideas. We think Dongda's understanding of personal computers is too narrow. It's not just a tool for individual users. We think it should have more applications," Whitman nodded, expressing understanding of these two guys' ideas. It seemed that this was a competitor targeting the industry. Although there was some conflict with him, there should be no direct competition at present.
After all, Whitman and Peter didn't think about selling personal computers to home customers.
They knew very well that their expertise was not in creating personal computers as a household consumer product.
"That's right, Whitman, it seems we all have great ideas. I hope we can all achieve our goals in the end," Peter said happily.
When Peter and Jack finished registering, they found that the numbers on their conference delegate badges had already reached over 2000. They were a little dumbfounded again. They found that the badges were given out in the order of registration, which meant that more than 2000 people had registered by the time they did!
"Hiss" Are there so many people registering for a technical conference now? The two took a deep breath.
However, they soon became happy. Everyone is optimistic about this thing, which shows that the future prospects of this thing are indeed very bright. Peter and Jack didn't know what Whitman's company did, but they were definitely not in their industry, so everyone's ideas might be geared towards their own industry, so it didn't matter.
So, this time everyone really came to the right place.
After registering, they were assigned to several designated hotels. Of course, food and accommodation were at their own expense. The $499 was just the conference fee, not an all-inclusive price.
This was set by Ren Zhong. In the future, Ren Zhong planned to do this for all conferences, driving these conference delegates towards tourism and catering. At least several thousand people, contributing one or two thousand dollars to Yandu's consumption, wouldn't that be several million dollars in income?
People now don't have much of a concept of tourism development. Of course, Ren Zhong wouldn't start advocating this when everyone was just barely getting enough to eat. Now is not the time to let everyone start enjoying life.
In the hotel, Peter and Jack saw foreign faces everywhere. Hundreds of rooms in a hotel were full, confirming that the abstract numbers in front of them were all living people!
This conference was really very popular.
Conference Organizing Committee.
The daily updated number of registrants and the list of people staying in hotels were constantly refreshing the data.
After the registration deadline, the number of on-site participants from overseas exceeded 4,000, and the number of domestic participants also exceeded 1,000. This was achieved under strict control of the number of registrants in each province.
If registration was opened up, it was likely that the number of domestic participants would exceed 3,000!
At this time, the Conference Organizing Committee released its first press release.
Coupled with the news footage of the TV station's interview, the grand occasion of the first Global Computer Conference immediately became a hot news topic again after the TV news was announced that day!
Although it was much less influential than the personal computer release news, in the reports of the mainstream media in the Liangjian world, they almost all quoted this news from Dongda University, once again continuing to fuel the craze for personal computers.
In the minds of many ordinary people, there is now a strong expectation. When they see that so many companies in their country are sending people to Dongda University to study the technology of this product, they are looking forward to when they can use it themselves.
After all, everything described about personal computers now is too good.