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Chapter 351 Gregory Assembling a Computer

In 1968, darkness was raging, and the entire world was in an unstable state. To describe it in one sentence, it was "people's minds are changing."

The red thoughts that spread from the Far East to the outside world spread to South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, etc...

This kind of thinking can be said to be the largest democratic attempt in human history, a last-ditch effort for the people to be the masters of the country. But unfortunately, this kind of thinking was exploited and ultimately failed.

But it is obvious that this kind of thinking still has countless supporters and has world-class influence...

"There's a Red Army parade over there..."

Wearing kimonos that had been custom-made here, Catherine and Elsa sat in the car and headed towards Yamaguchi Momoe's home.

Originally, Catherine and the others expected to arrive at around nine o'clock in the morning, but at this time, they unexpectedly encountered the Red Army marching.

"I wonder if Naoto Kan will be inside..."

Looking at the Japanese people having so much fun, Catherine suddenly thought of the future Japanese Prime Minister.

Although he was a short-lived prime minister, he can still be regarded as the prime minister of Japan. Catherine's influence on Japan should not be too great, so the other party should still be a red soldier at this time, right?

"Who is Naoto Kan?"

"Ah, it's nothing. He's just Japanese. He seems to be a movie star... Well, I heard his name when I came here last time... Hahahaha..."

Catherine glanced at Carter in front of her. He was a Japan expert and should know Japan very well. Seeing that there seemed to be nothing unusual about his expression, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief. At least she was not exposed.

After being stuck in traffic for more than an hour, Catherine's car set off again, and by this time, it was almost ten o'clock.

Fortunately, the journey is almost over.

The car stopped in front of a small bungalow. This was the house Carter bought for Yamaguchi Momoe and her family, of course, with Catherine's money.

Catherine vaguely recalled the life of Yamaguchi Momoe.

When she was four years old, something happened at home. Her mother Masako Yamaguchi was abandoned by her father. Momoe moved to Yokosuka with her mother and younger sister. It was precisely because of this that Catherine met this future famous singer here by chance.

From Catherine's point of view, Yamaguchi Momoe is not very beautiful, but her singing is very good.

In "history", in 1972, 13-year-old Momoe Yamaguchi won second place with the song "Carousel" in the fifth "A Star Is Born" singing competition, and she began to rise to prominence.

Moreover, Yamaguchi Momoe’s life experience is also incredible—she is a descendant of Concubine Yang.

Yes, she is the famous "Yang Yuhuan" in Chinese history, and she is a descendant of Yang Yuhuan.

At this time, Catherine saw a woman waiting there for something. When she saw Carter getting out of the car, she walked over excitedly.

Carter said a few words to the woman, and then she stood aside.

At this time, Catherine also got out of the car.

She knew who this excited woman was, she was Yamaguchi Momoe's mother Yamaguchi Masako.

"Arigado, thank you very much..."

As soon as Catherine got out of the car, the other party kept bowing to Catherine.

"This is Mrs. Masako Yamaguchi. She is the mother of sisters Yamaguchi Momoe and Yamaguchi Shue. She is now expressing her gratitude to you."

Although there was a language barrier, having Carter as a translator by my side made things much easier to solve.

Yamaguchi Shue is the younger sister of Yamaguchi Momoe, the little girl who was crying when Catherine saw her last time.

"It's nothing."

Catherine spoke in English, which was then translated into Japanese by Carter.

After chatting for a while, the four of them entered the house.

To be honest, Catherine didn't put much thought into it at first, and it was also because of Carter's own decision.

But since he helped, Kathryn Soo has been helping Xiao Baihui's family to the end.

"Sister Catherine!"

At this time, Yamaguchi Momoe also saw Catherine, and then ran to the entrance to greet her. Although they only met her once, it was not difficult to know what Catherine, a famous person, looked like.

"Xiao Baihui, have you studied seriously~"

The two have communicated several times through letters, so this is not a problem.

"Yeah, I'm studying hard." Xiaobaihui nodded seriously. Although Xiaobaihui didn't study English for too long, she still understood what Catherine said.

"Were you doing your homework just now?" Catherine asked again.

"I'm singing, sister, do you want to hear it?"

Catherine was slightly surprised by her answer.

"Let's go in and listen..." The entrance is not a good place to talk.

"Uh-huh."

Xiaobaihui is very energetic.

(Ah... so cute... such a well-behaved loli... all the weirdos will be killed by their cuteness, right?)

Not only the strange uncle, but also Catherine herself was almost intoxicated by this cute little loli.

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Gregory is getting himself a computer.

How to configure a computer is a science.

Although it is great to use Pentium computers in the company, it is only a test version after all, and the computers available on the market are still Microsoft II computers.

It was estimated that the Pentium computer would not be released for more than a year, so Gregory decided to get himself a machine for the time being.

As for the original one...it has been given to Aikul.

Monitors, keyboards, and mice are nothing, and they are very simple to purchase, but some professional software requires a lot of care when purchasing them.

Today's software is mainly divided into two types, one uses tapes as storage media, and the other uses cassettes as media.

Tape software is cheap, but its running speed is much slower than that of cassette software. This is also determined by the quality of the tape.

Due to the media, cassettes perform much better than magnetic tapes and are more popular - of course, the price is also higher.

Fortunately, Gregory bought the computer this time for work, so some software can be obtained for free as long as he applies to the company.

If such software is purchased outside, the price can be as high as thousands of dollars.

The simplest example is the fie software.

The products that Gregory chooses are all the company's products. Although Fairchild's products are cheaper, Gregory recognizes the products produced by the company more. Moreover, Company R's technology is not comparable to Fairchild's -

Now Fairchild has begun to sink, but it still has strength, but they can no longer catch up with inel at the technical level.

Gregory does not sell brand-name machines, but chooses to assemble them himself.

The power supply is easy to solve. Gregory also bought a U power supply. U is an uninterruptible power supply. It is a voltage-stabilized and frequency-stabilized AC that contains an energy storage device and has a rectifier and an inverter as its main components.

power supply.

This power supply is the company's most recently launched product.

This product received considerable praise as soon as it was launched.

The function of u power supply is mainly to provide temporary power supply during power outage, which lasts for about fifteen minutes. During these times, it is enough to save all the data in the computer. Moreover, such power supply can also protect the computer.

function, especially useful when the voltage is unstable.

Because of this, various companies, including Gregory, like u power supply very much.

After purchasing the power supply, the next step is the motherboard.

Gregory chose a nine-slot, supreme-level motherboard that supports four U. Since Inel has the highest instruction to produce a two-U version of the motherboard, so if you want to use a four-U motherboard, you can only use another motherboard.

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Although for general applications, double u is enough - because the company has only optimized double u at most, but has not done any research on four u.

But for Gregory, this is not the case. His research on u is very rich, and he already knows how to develop software for hardware - in order to save money, Gregory writes a lot of software himself.

After getting these things done, it's time to get started. This is undoubtedly an inel product. I purchased a 64b memory stick and it was done.

Next, there are the peripherals.

The first is the B game card. Atari's game card allows the computer to play B games. It has two large-scale integrated u and auxiliary processors. Although the price is an issue, it is less expensive than the real B game.

Much more.

Gregory actually also likes to play games.

Then, there is the tape drive. This is also necessary. Otherwise, what would it be without a storage device?

After finishing these things, Gregory bought a 2MB hard drive and a Fie software cassette, which was a huge hemorrhage.

After returning home, Gregory began to install the computer, which he was very familiar with.

"Phew~ Done."

There is no abnormality when booting, and the ENI system starts smoothly - now the system is burned directly on the storage, and when you purchase the motherboard, a system will be given as a gift.

Wiping his sweat, he took out the cassette.

The cassette is very beautifully made. After all, it is something developed by the company itself.

It's not boxy like other manufacturers. The outer shell of Fie's cassette is gray and white, with an Fie LG stuck on it, and the reverse side has the message of the cassette.

"Searching... software registration successful."

Only a small amount of software needs to be installed. For most software, you only need to register it in the system after inserting the cassette and then you can use it. The registration information is only a few hundred bytes in length. Even now

The memory is already sufficient.

Open the rd software, and then Gregory put the tape into it.

"The storage medium has been read."

Gregory liked to have tapes in the tape machine at all times, rather than inserting tapes into the tape machine at the last moment.

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There will be another update tomorrow...

:Originally I wanted to use Loli as the title. Ahem...Although we control Loli, we are also sensible.a!~!