Chapter 929 Peripheral Research Institute Opens

“Hiss~~~~~~That makes sense. That makes sense.”

It seems that, apart from other things, at least the electronics field has to go there. As expected, it is good to ask Gao Zhendong. This guy knows a little bit about everything and is always very thoughtful.

"It seems that your ideas about the Third Front Construction can be summarized in twenty words: 'adjust the scale, adapt to local conditions, grasp the industry, retain people to build factories, and stimulate development'. Is this correct?" The leader looked at his notebook and summarized.

What Gao Zhendong said just now were almost all about the general direction. To sum it up, this is what he meant. Oh, except for the example of Qianshan Province that he gave, which he talked about in quite some detail.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, the leadership is really good. I've been talking for so long, but in fact, the meaning is just a few dozen words." Gao Zhendong was happy and gave compliments without any charge.

"You kid, stop flattering me! Hahaha." If it were any other leader, they probably wouldn't be able to say "you kid" in front of Gao Zhendong. However, it's different here in the Defense Work Committee. They are naturally friendly and have watched Gao Zhendong grow up step by step, so they are likely to say anything.

After finishing the story, Gao Zhendong took the last sip of tea, stood up and prepared to leave. Everyone was busy, so he didn't stay any longer.

The leader stood up to see him off. As he was about to leave, he seemed to have just remembered something and reached into his bag to take out a quite thin document.

"Oh, by the way, leader, I made this in my spare time. It should be useful for the construction of barracks and outposts in high-altitude areas. I'm too lazy to bother with it, so please find a factory to produce it. Haha. I'm leaving now."

After saying that, he patted his butt and ran away.

The leader looked at the thing called "polyurethane foam" in his hand and was confused. What is this? Just come here, why bring anything?

This was something Gao Zhendong picked out from the database when the situation in Weinan area was already decided. It was a quite small thing, but it was still very meaningful for the construction of barracks and outposts there. The size of the thing was not important, but its purpose was the key.

The production formula and process of polyurethane foam can quickly form an insulation layer with excellent thermal insulation performance. It is also easy to transport. A small can can produce a large amount of foam. It is most suitable for the Weinan mountainous area where material transportation is inconvenient.

But this thing is really small, and he didn't treat it as a serious thing. In a few years, all countries will be able to make this thing.

Therefore, the transfer of this technology seems very informal, even simpler than sending a box of cabbages.

The leader called the chief engineer of the Defense Work Committee, and then sat at his desk to look at this thing.

When the chief engineer entered his office, he saw his leader smiling and patting the table.

"Okay, this thing is good! It's very interesting."

"What good stuff have you received?" the chief engineer walked over.

"Here, take a look at the task Gao Zhendong assigned to me, hahaha."

The chief engineer took it and looked at it, then he also laughed.

"He really knows how to time it. He calculated that we are going to build barracks and outposts in a high-altitude and cold area, right? This thing is really good. Not only can it be used by the army, but also by ordinary people in cold areas. He even added flame retardant thoughtfully."

The ingredient list clearly states which ingredients are used to achieve which functions.

"He was lazy and just threw this thing to me and ran away. I'll have to trouble you to take care of the rest of the work."

"Well, this thing is simple and can be used right away in Weinan, so I can take it away. By the way, did you say Gao Zhendong just came here?"

"Yeah, right, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing. I had a meeting notice for him, but since he's already left, I can just send it directly to his workplace."
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Gao Zhendong didn't know that a pile of documents and meetings would be waiting for him soon. He was now in Factory 1201. As the chief technical engineer, although he didn't need to stay here as often as the chief production engineer, he still had to be here when necessary.

After a series of actions including expansion, adding staff, and trial production, Factory 1201 now has a stable production capacity. It has finally freed the Institute of Computing from the heavy production tasks and can do their original work, which is theoretical and basic research on computers.

When Gao Zhendong was celebrating the success of the Ministry of Foreign Trade's foreign trade products exhibition not long ago, he mentioned to the leaders of the 1201th Ministry of Machine Building that they should set up a "Computer Equipment Research Institute" in Factory 1201 to be specifically responsible for peripherals. The th Ministry of Machine Building was very interested and quickly mobilized personnel to establish this research institute in Factory .

Gao Zhendong's purpose in this trip was to assign them a task.

Since it was I who suggested setting up this research institute, it is necessary for me to give them a helping hand during the initial period and get them on the right track. Gao Zhendong is also the director of this institute.

The deputy director of this institute was transferred from another unit. His surname was also Gao. When he heard that he was coming here, he was extremely happy. Working with Chief Engineer Gao was a good job and an honor.

In the 12th Ministry of Machinery, if one could say, "I don't really do anything important. I'm just working as an assistant to Chief Engineer Gao and assisting him in his work," all other comrades would immediately show respect. "Director Gao, the meeting is ready." The deputy director heard this, stood up, and called Gao Zhendong.

"Mr. Gao, please. I've told you many times, just call me Director Gao. It's easier to distinguish this way." The comrades in the institute were confused about the title at first. Both directors had the surname Gao, so what should they do?
After making a few jokes, they gradually unified the name. The director is called "Mr. Gao" and the deputy director is called "Suo Gao". Perfect!

As for Deputy Director Gao’s own reference to “Little Director Gao,” people would say this when talking about things behind his back, but they would never say it to his face.

Gao Zhendong came to the conference room. There were not many people in this research institute, only about 15 or 6 at most, excluding a few administrative staff and about 10 technical personnel. The entire institute's meeting could be accommodated in a small conference room.

The main reason for this is that some of the personnel are actually replaced by production personnel, such as the group conducting experiments.

Gao Zhendong thought it was a good idea. Being too bloated was not a good thing. It was better to have good quality soldiers rather than too many.

"Hello everyone, our institute has just been established for a few days. Do you feel like you are all too idle?" Gao Zhendong said with a smile.

In fact, it has only been two or three months since the Ministry of Foreign Trade's foreign trade fair until now, plus the processing time of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building, so this institute was indeed established not long ago.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Gao, please assign tasks to us quickly." A comrade said with a smile. Most of the comrades in this institute are young and lively.

"Well, don't worry. You will be busy from now on." As soon as Gao Zhendong finished speaking, everyone laughed happily.

After chatting and laughing with everyone and adjusting the atmosphere of the meeting, Gao Zhendong took out a stack of documents from his bag and distributed them to everyone.

"Comrades, these two things are what we are going to do next."

When the comrades took a look, they found that one of them didn't seem to have any big problems, but the other one was very unfamiliar.

But it doesn’t matter. The comrades are very confident, and with General Gao here, everything will be easy.

"Mr. Gao, this 'color display' seems to be ready-made, right?" the deputy director asked doubtfully.

In fact, there are now some dexterous comrades who are using color TVs to receive computer output signals, but due to the reasons of the output signal itself, the actual display effect is still black and white.

Because the original computers did not consider the issue of color signal output, that thing really consumes memory.

Gao Zhendong nodded: "The display device is ready, but the whole set of standards for color displays is still blank, so what you need to do is to come up with this set of standards, and implement this set of standards as a driver and integrate it into the Dragon operating system."

Don't underestimate the driver, it is a very important component of the hardware and may not be worse than the hardware itself. Those of us who are good at playing games know that Intel's graphics cards are always fighting for the future, and this is due to the driver. Our later domestic graphics cards had the specifications and computing power of 3060, but the actual game performance was very different, which is also due to the driver.

"At the same time, you also need to define the hardware interface between the computer and the color display, which is also an item that cannot be ignored." Gao Zhendong wrote a few words heavily on the blackboard.

"Okay, I see. The current color TV only allows us to connect to a computer, but how to connect it properly requires us to provide a complete solution from the interface to the driver."

"Yes, don't underestimate it. Just to give you an example, a mature color definition scheme is enough for you to work on."

"Ah? Mr. Gao, colors are just the three primary colors, it's very simple." Some comrades still didn't quite understand.

In fact, everyone has similar ideas. Red, green, and blue are known to everyone.

Gao Zhendong laughed: "So how do you plan to use the three primary colors to achieve the color you want? How many colors do you plan to have?"

"It's just..." Then he got stuck. It's really hard to explain this thing in one go.

"Different applications require different numbers of colors, and the number of colors is directly related to how much memory we need in the display process. Memory is very expensive, especially for display. It can't use disk drives as storage, which is too slow."

In fact, in the early days, another reason for not daring to use a display was that memory was too expensive. Even if the amount of memory required was compressed through programming and hardware technology, it was still a huge amount.

The comrades thought about what Gao Zhendong said and realized that this matter really could not be decided on a whim.

"And the number of colors you determine must not only meet the requirements of use, but also take into account the convenience of computer processing and storage." Gao Zhendong added another requirement.

(End of this chapter)