Chapter 717 The Operation Center Can't Hold On
Gao Zhendong himself did not feel very excited about this thing, but for other comrades who participated in the work, the meaning was different.

This is one of the few computer devices that is mainly completed by them independently, similar ones include keyboards, printers, etc.

Moreover, this thing seems to have a higher technological content than the previous two. That's how it is these days. The more electromechanical something contains, the more advanced it seems to ordinary people.

The happiest people here were undoubtedly the comrades from the Beijing Watch Factory. They never expected that we could also work on computers?
Although it is just an external device, I would like to ask you whether it is plugged into the computer.

Therefore, their emotions are more enthusiastic than other comrades.

"Chief Engineer Gao, Chief Engineer Chi, thank you. Thank you for allowing us to participate in such a project." While applauding, Chief Long thanked Gao Zhendong and others loudly.

Gao Zhendong raised his hand, and the applause paused. Gao Zhendong said loudly: "Here, I would like to especially thank the comrades from the Beijing Watch Factory. It is their rich experience in micro-transmission mechanisms that has cleared the biggest obstacle on our research path. Comrades, come on, let's applaud and thank them."

The comrades from other units all looked at the comrades from the Beijing Watch Factory and clapped their hands vigorously, making them feel a little embarrassed.

"No, no, we just provided some help with the mechanical part. The main work was done by your comrades in electrical engineering." Mr. Long said embarrassedly.

Chief Engineer Chi smiled and said, "Boss Long is too modest. Mechanical and electrical engineering are inseparable. Boss Gao is right about this matter. The mechanical part is very important."

Seeing that everyone was almost happy, Gao Zhendong said to Chi, Long, and a senior technician from the Third Rolling Mill, "Next, I'll ask the three of you to take the trouble to report the good news to your respective units and ministries. I'll be lazy, hahaha."

When Gao Zhendong assigned this task, Chief Engineer Chi and the comrades of the Third Rolling Mill were very used to it. This thing was nothing, and it would be a waste of time for Chief Engineer Gao to do it. Moreover, Gao Zhendong did not show up, which clearly meant that they should show their faces in their own units.

Of course, for Chief Engineer Chi, it is not necessary to show up in his own unit, but it is still necessary in the department.

However, Mr. Long was not used to this. Didn't the leader have to report this matter to his superiors? This was a good opportunity to showcase the results of his work. Moreover, it happened almost before the Chinese New Year, which made it even more meaningful.

"Chief Engineer Gao, why don't you report this matter in person?"

Gao Zhendong shook his head: "I won't go. I don't have time. You just need to bring the good news back."

Chief Engineer Chi said with a smile: "Old Long, there is no need to persuade us. Chief Engineer Gao gave us a chance, so we just need to grab it, haha."

They are old acquaintances who have worked together many times, and he knows very well what Gao Zhendong thinks.

Gao Zhendong added: "Boss Long, in addition to troubling you with this matter, I also need you to follow up on the completion of this project and the transfer of production technology. For me, this matter ends here."

In fact, if Gao Zhendong was not afraid that there would be too many cooperating units and no one could suppress the others, he would not even want to be the leader. After he had made the preliminary technical preparations, this matter was not a big deal from a technical perspective.

"Don't worry, we will get this done." Several project leaders made a solemn promise.

This device may not look large, but it has a wide range of implications. The small transmission mechanism is the responsibility of the Beijing Watch Factory, the magnetic head is manufactured by the Haihekou Record Player Factory, the disk is the responsibility of the Audio-Visual Corporation, and the final assembly is done by the Computing Institute.

Gao Zhendong turned around and said a few words to the comrades from the factory office of the Third Branch Factory. The comrades from the factory office happily went to make a phone call.

He turned around and said with a smile: "Does everyone know what I'm going to say next?"

Except for the comrades from the Beijing Watch Factory, all other comrades were happy. This scene was familiar!
"I know. Hahaha."

"Eat, eat!"

"Chief Engineer Gao is so generous. I have been waiting for this."

"..."

This scene made Chief Engineer Long and his colleagues stunned. My goodness, they eat and drink so much after finishing their work here?

He couldn't say this out loud, so he quietly asked Chief Engineer Chi: "Chief Engineer Gao, you won't make any mistakes by doing this, right?"

Chief Engineer Chi smiled and shook his head: "No, I don't know about others, but he doesn't have this problem. It's not like he eats it himself. After the work is done, shouldn't he have a good meal? Don't worry, for this kind of meal, the leaders above would be eager to have the opportunity to approve it. This is an old tradition of their factory, so don't worry about it. Let me tell you, they have a chef who cooks Sichuan and Shandong cuisine here, and his cooking skills are amazing!"

How novel! If each batch of notes means the launch of a new high-tech product, you can see that the superiors write very quickly when approving the notes, and they may even want to just stamp it and be done with it.

Mr. Long's mouth was watering after hearing these words. He loves Sichuan cuisine, but ever since he started working as a young man, he has rarely been able to eat authentic Sichuan cuisine. He didn't expect that he could fulfill his wish here.

"Let's go, everything has been arranged over there. Comrades, remember, we have only two principles - don't waste food and eat as much as you can!" As Gao Zhendong spoke, everyone laughed and went to the cafeteria together.

The chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building was overjoyed when he received the good news.

"This thing is great. It can read randomly, which solves the biggest flaw of the tape drive! Although the capacity is not too large, it is enough. It is also very portable and easy to use!"

In the past, tape drives were essentially used as data storage devices. Both data and programs were considered a pile of data, and the tape itself was just a warehouse for data. The operation, processing, and modification of data and programs had to be completed in the memory and then written to the tape all at once.

Or to put it in a more popular way, the data on tapes is mostly treated as cold data or dormant data, while for "hot data" or active data during operation, tapes are not the best choice, or they are very troublesome to use.

The "hottest" data is undoubtedly in the memory, but the second hottest is in the external storage, which may need to be read and written at any time and saved at any time.

This is a difficult situation for tapes, as they can only store cold data. It is difficult to use them to store active data.

This is also the reason why magnetic core memory is still used as the mainstream external memory for high-performance computers, even though it is expensive, heavy, and large, and cannot be carried around, now that tape storage is available in China, because it has random read and write capabilities. On these machines, tape drives are really used as future USB flash drives.

And now, the chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building sees hope of changing all this.

The price of a disk drive can never be more expensive than a cabinet of magnetic core storage, not to mention disks of the same capacity. Disks are simply dirt cheap.

Small size, low cost, easy to produce, portable, simple to expand, easy to maintain, perfect replacement of functions...

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The chief engineer of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building was keenly aware that perhaps soon he would have to ask those comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Trade who dealt in second-hand goods to come here again. Would they like to do the second-hand magnetic core memory business?
Although Gao Zhendong did not attach much importance to disk drives technically, they actually had a very important significance, otherwise Gao Zhendong would not have organized so many units to develop this little thing.

That is, compared with magnetic core memory, disk drives have greatly reduced the difficulty of promoting computers and the threshold of use!

While feeling happy, he looked at Chief Engineer Chi with a bit of a smug look on his face.

"Hiss~~~~~~~ Lao Chi, can your current production capacity keep up?"

When asked this question, Chief Engineer Chi was stunned and then started to complain.

"We are really stretched to the limit. We need keyboards, monitors, printers, computer assembly, modems, magnetic cores...oh, this will soon be gone, tape drives, and disk drives that will soon be put into production...Boss, you have to give us more manpower."

The chief engineer of the department couldn't tell for a moment whether he was complaining or showing off.

The chief engineer of the department thought for a while and said: "Well, you guys go and prepare for production first. The department will consider this matter."

After seeing off Lao Chi, the chief engineer of the ministry immediately picked up the message about the disk drive and went to the office of the leader of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building.

"Oh? Gao Zhendong has come up with something new again? Hahaha, let me take a look."

After reading this good news, the leader mused: "Gao Zhendong's move shows that he is determined to promote the use of computers more widely and in depth!"

As a leader, he had good vision and could see at a glance the significance of this thing in promoting the popularization of computers, as well as Gao Zhendong's deeper thoughts.

"Yeah, I think so too. This is a good thing."

"Indeed, this is a good thing, but can we sustain it?" The leader immediately realized the problems that might be faced in the future.

"Well, I just wanted to report this to you. The computing office is a bit overwhelmed."

After that, the chief engineer of the department explained the production problems currently faced by the Institute of Operations.

Although Chief Engineer Chi's words were mostly boasting, what he said was also true.

"Well, with the increase in the types of computer products, it is indeed inappropriate for a research-oriented institute like theirs to be responsible for completing these tasks. Whether in terms of resources, equipment, personnel skills or management system, it is not suitable."

Research and production are two completely different things. If the output of computers and related equipment is still like the timeline of Gao Zhendong's previous life, with annual output in the double digits or even single digits, then this problem is not prominent. On the contrary, it is most appropriate to put it in the Institute of Computing. The output is too small and their conditions are sufficient.

But the situation is completely different now.

(End of this chapter)