Rebirth in America

This mouse is not a purely mechanical mouse. The first-generation mouse is not very precise and the mechanical structure is easy to wear. This is Alex's optical-mechanical mouse copied from Logitech, or "cursor mouse" for short.

"The rolling ball is used to locate the computer cursor coordinates, and the buttons are used to operate the cursor options."

There are no computers here now, and even if there are computers, there is no corresponding interface, so there is no way to demonstrate it to Seymour. Alex could only talk and draw to explain clearly the function and structure of his mouse.

Like the purely mechanical mouse, the cursor mouse also has a small rubber roller ball connected to the X and Y axes. When the mouse moves on the desktop, the rolling ball will drive the two grating code disks on the X and Y axis to rotate, and the light emitted by the X and Y LEDs will illuminate the grating code disk. When there is a light signal, it is "1" signal, if no light signal is received, it is a "0" signal.

These signals are sent to a specialized control chip, and the calculation generates the corresponding coordinate offset to determine the position of the cursor on the screen. As for the left and right buttons, that's even simpler. As long as the pressed signal is sent to the computer, the computer can process the mouse button signal.

After hearing this, Seymour still felt that these two things were a bit useless and not as valuable as floppy disks and floppy disk drives. He believes that only technical updates can make his computer better than others. In other words, a faster computer is his goal.

"It sounds interesting, but I don't see how it will improve the computer. If it can be a peripheral like a floppy disk, I think it will still be of some use."

"Oh? Is that what you think? Do you want to make a bet with me that even if the floppy disk is eliminated, the mouse will not be eliminated."

Seymour thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I never bet. Also, when floppy disks become obsolete, we will probably no longer exist. I am very confident in floppy disks."

Alex shrugged and said helplessly: "Okay, if you don't want to bet, I won't bet. But I insist on installing this keyboard and mouse on the computer. Your operating system has reserved relevant modules. This part I will write the code, and I guarantee there will be no problems, just like you wrote it yourself."

Seymour agreed with what Alex said. After this period of cooperation, he has recognized Alex's technical ability. What's even more amazing is that Alex can often think of the things he thinks of, and the two of them work together very well. So he also recognized these two useless peripherals. In his opinion, the keyboard has some uses, but the mouse is hard to say. At worst, it can be installed and not used.

"You should test these peripherals first. If there are no problems, then assemble them into our computer. Especially the floppy disk drive, I suggest you fix that thing first."

After getting Seymour's approval, Alex was so happy that he almost jumped up. These things he did were completely unplanned and were just spur-of-the-moment whims. If Seymour insisted not to use it, there was nothing he could do. After all, this computer is Seymour's brainchild, and even he can't modify it at will.

Judging from the current manufacturing process, there is no problem with floppy drives, keyboards, and mice. As long as someone wants to do it, just insist on doing it in this direction. Unfortunately, there is a lack of people like Alex who can directly see the results. These things did take a lot of energy from him, but they were still completed.

The modules related to the operating system are also ready, which Alex asked the Seymour doll to do. In the spiritual space, the puppet can move freely as long as he allows it. The Seymour doll is constantly writing code, doing tests, etc. inside, just like the real Seymour is doing outside.

"I'm afraid Tesla couldn't achieve this. He can do experiments in his own mind, but I can copy other people's knowledge, experience and skills into my mind and simulate a spiritual doll. Through this doll You can conduct experiments in your mind." Alex was secretly proud. In his opinion, he had far exceeded Tesla's ability.

Of course, there is a price to pay for this method of letting spiritual dolls replace your own research and development. Alex found that when he used the spirit doll, his energy was consumed very quickly, and it was usually good to be able to use it for a few hours a day. If you exceed the time limit, you will have a splitting headache and tinnitus and dizziness the next day.

These are nothing. What he worries about is that it will cause irreparable damage to the body in the long run, so the gain outweighs the loss. Amid this concern, he has been using his abilities cautiously and not daring to consume excessive physical energy.

The floppy disk, floppy drive, keyboard and mouse passed the test quickly, and even if there were some minor problems, Alex could quickly solve them. After he came up with these epoch-making things, he immediately asked people to apply for patents. With patent protection, he is not afraid of being stolen by people from IBM. Of course, when things should be kept secret, they should be kept secret.

With these trump cards in hand, Alex thought it was time to install them on the computer and let old stubborns like Seymour see the effects. However, there is nothing interesting about today's computers. Even if these things are installed, they will not be of much use.

"Getting a Tetris game? It's such a waste to use the fastest computer in the world to play the game."

In the end, Alex thought about it again and again and decided to create a shooting game. The program is very simple, just use the mouse to control a cross cursor and shoot the birds flying up, down, left, and right on the screen. To increase the difficulty, in addition to birds, there are also airplanes, hot air balloons, etc., which cannot be shot.

This shooting game has a scoring system. The more birds you shoot, the higher your score. You will lose a chance when you shoot an airplane or a hot air balloon. Each game has three chances. Once the chances are used up, it's "GameOver"!

The images in the game are all displayed using pixels, which Alex drew casually, and they look pretty decent. The sound effects and background music were also written live by Alex.

At first, he planned to record the soundtrack, but later found that doing so would make the entire game larger. Therefore, we can only use programming to simulate the sound, so as to control the file size below about 1M. The game was stored on a floppy disk, with backups of course, but he was only given one to test.

From Alex's point of view, such a game is extremely crude and the gameplay is not good enough. Tetris is much more fun than this "bird hunting game".

However, although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. There is no shortage of everything you need, such as levels, scores, lives, rankings, etc.

"This is a small game I made to test floppy disks, floppy drives, keyboards, and mice. You guys can test it first, and if you have any problems, come to me."

Alex made this game, on the one hand, he wanted to reflect the value of these peripherals, and on the other hand, he also wanted to test them through this method. With this game, these energetic developers can vent their anger in their free time. By the way, test these peripherals to see if there are any problems.

Unexpectedly, this game immediately made these researchers addicted. They had never played video games before, but they were soon exposed to this game and quickly became addicted. Fortunately, there is currently only one computer in the research room that can run this game, and there is no way for more people to play at the same time.

The result was a strange scene, with many people gathered around to watch the person sitting play the game, while others waited for him to lose his chance and replace him with a new one. When they saw someone breaking the previous person's record, these game fans screamed, making the research room a little more noisy. This was a scene that was hard to see in the past. Unexpectedly, ever since Alex launched this game, this place has become the noisiest place.

Faced with this situation, Alex was also a little worried. He was afraid that Seymour would see employees coming to play games one by one, and he didn't know if this would have the opposite effect.

"Just take back the game floppy disk and say that the test data is enough and there is no need to continue testing."

One day, when Alex passed by the computer being tested, he discovered that Seymour was also in the queue. Especially when it was Seymour's turn to go into battle, he changed his stoic demeanor and stared at UU Reading www.uukanshu.net, nervously holding the mouse to shoot the birds on the screen.

"Holy crap! I accidentally shot a plane!" Seymour wailed, but he quickly focused on the game on the screen.

At first, Alex was optimistic about Seymour's change. After a while, he found that Seymour's dark circles were becoming more and more obvious. This was something that didn't happen in the past. Seymour was a person with a very regular schedule. Even if he worked overtime, he would sleep for more than six hours a day.

"Why are you doing this? It seems like you don't have enough sleep?" Alex was shocked and asked.

Seymour didn't notice Alex at first, but it took him a while to realize: "Oh, it's Alex. You know, I broke the record yesterday, scoring a total of 1,034 points."

"New record?"

Alex soon realized that Seymour must have been up all night playing games. Faced with such a result, he felt a little surprised. He didn't expect that such a bad game would be so attractive to people of this era. However, it was definitely not what he wanted for things to develop like this.

In order to allow the research and development work to proceed smoothly, he took back the game floppy disk. His excuse was that the testing was over and no more testing was needed. Unexpectedly, someone has already made a copy of this game. Finally, he removed the mouse and keyboard, and then suppressed the gaming craze in the research room.

After this incident of being obsessed with the game, Seymour also began to change his attitude, believing that things like the mouse would definitely become a basic configuration of computers in the future.