America 1982

In the SSD fraternity house, in the large conference room, all members except the rookies were present, staring at the picture played on the TV.

That was the scene recording the rookies at last night's party. Chairman Charles asked: "Name the first rookie who impressed you."

Eric smiled and said, "Tommy Hawke, that guy stole the show at the party last night."

"Jason White!" Another voice sounded, saying a different name, and to Eric's surprise, most people present nodded, agreeing that Jason White was more impressive.

Eric pointed to the TV with some confusion, which was showing Tommy Hawke performing a little magic trick on a group of girls, making those girls smile: "That guy did it before twelve o'clock, with two BDP The girls left together, obviously the best newcomer last night."

"You can't just watch the video. In fact, Jason White's maggot impressed me even more." The house manager looked at Eric and said firmly: "I bet that guy will successfully pass our test. Become our brothers.”

"What did he do?" Eric asked the other party.

The house manager told Eric what he saw and heard: "The guy took a few drunk rookies and ran outside the gate of the Order of the Phoenix and peed on them. The other guy rushed up and punched him. , failed to make him stop excreting, but he peed all over him. Under his leadership, several rookies all used the Order of the Phoenix as a toilet. It is difficult for people to ignore his leadership and expressiveness."

"Well done!" Eric said with conviction after hearing this.

Charles wrote Jason White's name with a pen on the whiteboard next to him, and then continued to ask: "The second name."

This time, most of the veterans mentioned Tommy Hawke's name. A rookie could take away two girls at the first party. This record has exceeded the performance of these veterans when they were newcomers.

Charles wrote Tommy Hawke and continued to ask: "The third..."

After asking again and again, when no one spoke out the names of the rookies they remembered, nine names were left on the blackboard. Charles looked at the nine names on the whiteboard, then turned around and looked at the more than thirty brothers. He opened his mouth and said:

"Go and prepare, determine their finishing time, and then bring these nine maggots over. SSD's hell test begins."

"Yeah!" A group of people cheered loudly and stood up and rushed out of the conference room.

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In the library, Tommy Hawke skillfully used the Apple 2 on the workbench to complete the borrowing record, then opened his Osborne 1, ran the installed SuperCalc spreadsheet software, and placed a stopwatch on the desktop. After turning on the timer, Quickly start the same entry work according to the records.

Maya Gibbons was patrolling in front of the bookshelf, checking the age of the books, when she heard the loud typing on the keyboard on the workbench, and walked over, finding Tommy entering a form on the portable computer she brought, and she was a little curious. ' Tommy, what are you doing?'

"Nothing, use another system's spreadsheet software to do the same work and see which software is more efficient." Tommy stared at the Osborne 1 portable computer screen and responded to Maya.

Maya walked to Tommy's side and looked at the ever-changing tables and numbers on the small screen: "What's the point of doing this?"

"In the test, in addition to SuperCalc, there are also several spreadsheet software such as Lotus1-2-3 and CalcStar. At present, the most efficient one is Lotus1-2-3 on the IBM desktop computer. The same work takes the slowest time, but the prerequisite It is necessary to remember its tedious operation key combinations, followed by Microsoft's Multiplan, which is slightly less difficult to operate than the former, but the version updates too quickly, and each time it is like a restart, requiring the user to re-record how to use the software, and how long it takes The slowest one is VisiCalc on Apple 2, which is the computer in the library." After Tommy completed the same workload, he pressed the stop button of the stopwatch and then said to Teacher Maya.

Maya Gibbons was a little surprised when she heard Tommy's words. She had always thought that this boy only came to the library part-time part-time and would leave here as soon as he found other better part-time jobs. She didn't expect that he would come here on time every day. Works, is quiet and friendly, and spends most of his time reading computer-related books in his seat.

"What's the purpose? To write some software testing articles for computer magazines and earn royalties?" Maya gently touched Tommy's portable computer with her hand and asked with a smile. However, after asking, she felt that the other party was not too serious. It was possible to earn royalties, because the price of the computer in front of her was 1,795 yuan, and there were still only a few students in the entire school who owned personal computers. But she had heard before that Tommy bought five different personal computers in one go.

Tommy picked up the water glass and took a sip of water. He stared at the computer and said to Maya: "No, this is my personal test of these software. I always have to find something to do outside of completing the homework assigned by the teacher. I am currently working on it." Research how to make the small program I write compatible with opening Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet documents."

"You don't look like those classmates who are keen on software development." Maya heard Tommy's words and said with a smile.

Tommy said frankly to Maya: "I am really not keen on software development. I just think these software can be more convenient, so I copy them and optimize them, but the workload is relatively large, and a lot of the work is still in the brain conception stage."

"Sounds good, come on." Maya praised Tommy and then left the workbench.

Seeing that it was almost time for him to get off work, the girl who replaced him had already arrived. Tommy put away his computer, made the last cup of coffee, opened a magazine, and prepared to spend the last five minutes of his part-time job.

At this moment, two white men dressed as ninjas suddenly walked in quickly outside the library. The girl who took over from Tommy at the workbench was surprised to see the two ninjas walking towards her, thinking they were going to kidnap her. Just when she was about to exclaim, the two men One of the ninjas made a shushing gesture towards her, and then walked towards Tommy, who was drinking coffee and reading a magazine next to her.

"Friend~" a ninja said to Tommy.

Tommy subconsciously raised his head, and a knitted hat was put directly on Tommy's head, covering his eyes. Then the two of them skillfully sealed his mouth with tape. One of the strong ninjas lifted Tommy up and quickly Bu rushed out of the library, and one of the ninjas ran back, picked up Tommy's computer, and smiled apologetically at the girl:

"Sorry, I forgot to take his computer."

Then he evacuated quickly and furtively, taking no more than thirty seconds.

"What happened?" Maya saw the girl looking at the main entrance of the library, walked over and asked.

The girl looked away and looked at Maya: "Two ninjas kidnapped Tommy. Do we need to call the police?"

"Didn't you apply to join an organization like a sorority?" After hearing the girl's description, Maya asked the other party with a smile.

The girl shook her head: "No."

"Then you will miss a lot of happy experiences." Maya smiled at the girl: "This is the freshman assessment period for the fraternity or sorority. There is no need to call the police. We just wish Tommy good luck."