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Time soon entered October, and good news came from Midea's laboratory. A new computer based on Xu Zhi's design has been born.

In the laboratory, Xu Zhi looked at the computer in front of him that was almost the same as in his childhood memories. It was a 14-inch monitor with a vertical host chassis next to it. The keyboard also came out separately and was connected to the host computer by a data cable. above.

"Xu Sheng, this is a mouse designed according to your request." He Guoyuan handed over a mouse similar to that of later generations. According to the request of Xu Zhi, a time traveler, it imitated the appearance of later generations of Razer mice, fully considering the human hand. It has a unique structural design and has also registered shape patents around the world.

Before the advent of Microsoft's graphical interface system, the mouse was not very useful. The current computer is still in a "barbaric" era. You need to enter codes to operate the computer. Unless you have some professional knowledge, you cannot play with the computer at all.

This should be said to be the world's first split-type personal computer. The popular design at the moment is an integrated design, with the host at the bottom and a keyboard and monitor on top, as is the case with Apple's Apple 2.

Although the cost of the split computer will be more than ten dollars higher, compared with the current price of personal computers, which can easily reach thousands or even thousands of dollars, this cost increase is nothing. The biggest advantage of the split type is the good heat dissipation performance of the chassis. At the same time, the monitor is placed directly on a normal table, and the height is just right. Otherwise, if traditional computers are placed on a normal table due to the height of the bottom chassis, they will always be incongruous due to the height of the screen.

After the engineer installed the mouse, Xu Zhi also tried it himself. In this era, all computer systems are DOS systems, and the mouse is of little use. However, Xu Zhi still brought a mouse with the latest model computer. The fundamental reason is Midea Game Company has also developed two games for its own computers.

The first one is the simplest, which is Minesweeper. In later generations, almost everyone who has used a computer has played this game. Although it is the most primitive basic game, its playability is still relatively high.

The second game is the classic game Plants vs. Zombies. Because this game operates better on computers, Xu Zhi did not put it on the arcade, but sold it with his own computer.

These games will be sold together when computers are released in the future. In a short period of time, they will be used as exclusive games for their own computers. In this era, although various countries and companies value the use of personal computers in business, more ordinary games People buy them to take home just for fun.

Xu Zhi took out the Plants vs. Zombies floppy disk from the disc case and loaded it into the computer drive. A link quickly popped up on the computer screen. Xu Zhi clicked on it with the mouse. After a few seconds, the game screen popped up.

Considering the current functional limitations of the CPU, the graphics of the game are not high-definition designs. Players in this era are not very demanding anyway. Their requirements for games are more about playability. The first-generation plant design is enough to meet market demand. , when players get tired of playing, Midea can also launch a second wave of versions.

"Xu Sheng, this is the production arrangement plan for Honor brand computers." He Guoyuan handed Xu Zhi a detailed production plan.

The first computer brand Midea Company tested was called Honor 1 series. It took a high-end route and used the Motorola 68000 processor, which was the world's first 32-bit processor. The price was the 6502 processor commonly used in the market. 15 times the performance, but it is also much more powerful in terms of performance and can run several large games smoothly.

Xu Zhi roughly scanned the plan. As Midea's first personal computer, all assembly and testing are handled by factories directly affiliated to Midea. As for the specific production details, he will not get involved too much. Professional people To do professional things, Xu Zhi is only responsible for the strategic development of the company.

"Just follow this plan." Xu Zhi waved his hand and asked, "How is the development of the Wubi input method going?"

"We have summarized the words and characters, which basically match 99% of the commonly used Chinese characters. We are now looking for the best position on the keyboard!" He Guoyuan replied: "In addition, the global patent registration has also been completed. As soon as we promote it , just the market for all Chinese people in the world will be monopolized by us."

"Of course, but it solves a problem, otherwise there will be a lot of people clamoring to abolish Chinese characters." Xu Zhi said with a smile.

Before electronic civilization, Chinese had sufficient advantages. When typesetting, a page of Chinese characters could express far more content than English, Japanese and other texts.

But after the arrival of the computer age, a problem arose that plagued all Chinese culture: how to input Chinese characters into the computer. This was extremely difficult at the time.

Many people have even concluded that computers are the gravedigger of Chinese character culture. Many experts in Bay, Hong Kong, and the Mainland are calling for the abolition of Chinese characters and the use of pinyin instead.

In 1977, the Japanese invented a Chinese character phototypesetting machine. However, this machine could not proofread Chinese characters when inputting them. Once an error was made, the typesetting would have to be retyped. Wang An Company in the United States also invented the 99-key triangular coding input method and a large keyboard input method. There are 9 characters on one key, and then the correct one is selected based on the radicals next to it.

Although these methods can input Chinese characters, the efficiency is too low and the rules are confusing. It is impossible for ordinary people to remember them. They can only search the instructions while inputting Chinese characters. It is extremely painful to use and very error-prone.

In his previous life, Xu Zhi could only use the traditional Pinyin input method, but never Wubi. Before that, he convened a group of engineers and presented the design concept of Wubi. This group of people would re-launch a new input method based on all the Chinese character rules. The Wubi input method, although the root structure and the positions on the keyboard are definitely different from those in the previous life, it does not matter whether it is a white cat or a black cat, as long as it can input Chinese characters quickly, it will be OK.

"Are the five strokes of simplified Chinese characters ready?" Xu Zhi asked.

He Guoyuan nodded and said: "That's fine. Although traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters are different, there are still many common root words. Relatively speaking, simplified Chinese characters are simpler, but currently the simplified Chinese characters are mainly used in the mainland, and copyright is useless. ah?"

Xu Zhidao: "It doesn't matter, it's not possible at the moment, but it might still be useful in the future. Prepare another computer with a simplified Chinese input method, and then send it to my home."

"Okay, no problem." He Guoyuan nodded in agreement.

While Xu Zhi and He Guoyuan were discussing more details, Wang Liming came over and said: "Sheng Xu, Welch from General Electric just called. The acquisition of RCA has been completed. He invited you to go to the United States to discuss the transfer of the TV business. Things!"