Chapter 1365 The race between the horse and the train (first update, please subscribe)
(NBC is North Borneo Company)
The office was quiet.
Only the printer is constantly outputting calculation results!
The numbers printed on the paper looked in people's eyes, making them look at the uncalculated results in their hands. At this moment, everyone fell into silence.
At this time, there was even a bitter expression on their faces. No one spoke and everyone was silent. What else could be said now?
Now they all seemed to be thinking of the picture in the history books - a picture of a horse racing against a locomotive during the Industrial Revolution!
Now, they are that stupid horse!
Not only stupid, but destined to be eliminated!
Back then, the invention of the railway changed the world, but what about it?
Staring at that computer, the engineers didn't know the answer, but they all knew another answer in their hearts - with the time saved by calculation, Westerners can do more things.
Gusev on the side asked, staring at the green electronic computer.
"Can you take such an advanced machine out of the country?"
In his opinion, how could such an advanced machine be taken out of the country for use?
"Why not?"
Zhou Bicheng asked:
"We need it for our work. At NBC, basically every office has one. If it wasn't too expensive, maybe everyone would have one..."
The last sentence directly caused some people to break their defenses, and some even broke their pencils!
This, is this a Western country?
The impact of advanced productivity on this day on these engineers behind the Iron Curtain was unimaginable. They just looked at this electronic computer.
People’s eyes are complicated and their hearts are heavy!
……
"In the Soviet Union, he would have been thrown into prison and they all would have been thrown into Siberia!"
In an office on the eighth floor of Lubyanka Square, looking at the photos taken from Togliatti, Colonel Vyacheski said:
"Because of leaks!"
"Yes, this electronic computer is NBC's most advanced personal computer. Even we only have less than twenty."
The lieutenant standing in front of the colonel said:
"The military may still have some, but there will not be more than 200 in the entire Soviet Union."
This is reality.
Sometimes the reality is so cruel. At NBC, computers are just ordinary office tools. But here it has become some kind of high technology.
"It's really hard to imagine. Such an advanced electronic computer, they don't keep any confidentiality."
In their thinking, any advanced things always need to be kept secret, after all, to prevent the enemy from prying. This secrecy is not just for foreigners, but also for the country itself.
It is precisely because of this kind of war mentality that it is difficult for them to imagine that NBC would actually sell this kind of electronic computer to the public, and even allow engineers to take it to other countries.
For people who are used to thinking about war, all this is too incredible.
So that no matter what, they can't understand why?
That's why there was a feeling that those people should be sent to Siberia. Go feel the cold wind of Siberia, and then you can understand the importance of confidentiality.
"The fact that they don't keep any secrets is a good thing for our work, Colonel."
The lieutenant said:
"Isn't our job to obtain this information?"
Vyachevsky nodded. A few months ago, the KBB established the T Bureau, whose mission was to acquire Western equipment and technology to improve the Soviet Union's ability to produce integrated circuits.
"This is indeed beneficial to our work, but we must also note that there are many better things in the laboratory of NBC Electronics Company. The radiation-proof chip used in their navigation satellites is said to have extremely excellent performance. chip.”
The lieutenant said:
“Is it better than Athlon?”
"It's not a chip!" Vyachevsky shook his head and said:
"Unlike our choice of tubes more than a decade ago, NBC chose transistors and integrated circuits from the beginning, and they also realized that it would not only launch satellites and land on the moon, but would also be used in everything their military uses. In electronic products, they invest heavily in transistors and chips.”
In fact, limited by technology, NBC's early integrated circuits faced problems such as impure semiconductor materials and substandard processes. During mass production, the yield rate was extremely low and performance improvement was relatively slow.
In contrast, electronic tubes with mature technological innovations can further tap into their potential. In addition, Soviet academician Valentin Avdeev broke through the miniaturization technology of electron tubes and successfully reduced the size of electron tubes to a fraction or even a dozen of the original size, and the reliability was also greatly enhanced.
This invention not only allowed the performance of the Soviet Union's large-scale electron tube computers to soar, but also allowed weapons such as fighter planes and tanks to carry more complex electronic equipment, fully meeting the needs of the military.
On one side, there are mature technologies that are far ahead, and on the other side, there are unreliable new gadgets. The Soviet Union, which pays attention to pragmatism, unsurprisingly issued a death sentence to the transistor.
However, just when the Soviet Union was obsessed with "miniaturization of electron tubes", when the Soviet Union was intoxicated with its own achievements in electron tubes, NBC was running wildly on another track. After solving the problems of high-purity silicon and production processes, it ushered in Due to the explosive development of integrated circuits, as semiconductor materials and integrated circuit processes become more and more mature, NBC's chips are also evolving at a terrifying speed.
The advent of the exascale supercomputer "Deep Blue 2000" at the end of last year not only shocked the world, but also awakened the Soviet Union. After learning that NBC used chips on intercontinental missiles, the Soviet Union finally panicked and decided to transform and develop chips. Considering that the gap was too large and fearful of not being able to catch up, the top Soviet officials decided to hand over the task to a more efficient agency, the agency they trusted most, the KGB.
So a month ago, Kberg established the T Bureau. The reason why they established this department is that they hope to use special means to improve their integrated circuit level and catch up with countries such as NBC.
As the head of this department, Vyachevsky naturally knows that he has a heavy responsibility.
"In the past few years, they have solved many integrated circuit production problems and developed a series of related technologies, such as the refining of high-purity silicon, photolithography machines, photoresists, etc., in the production of integrated circuits In terms of production technology, we are far behind them, and the Kremlin's request is for us to obtain this technology from NBC, the United States and other European countries as soon as possible through special means."
Once again, picking up the photo from the table and looking at the green "Wang An 100 electronic computer", Vyachevsky said:
"I don't know how important integrated circuits are, but I know that the Kremlin is very concerned about this matter. Now Western electronic equipment has become more and more sophisticated and miniaturized, and its performance has become more and more powerful. Chips are already used in civilian equipment. It has spread rapidly in the world and is also widely used by the military. No matter how our scientists improve the electronic tube, they cannot achieve the same effect
If we don't have integrated circuits with the same performance, then sooner or later, they will hit us on the head with weapons carrying advanced integrated circuits, so we must solve this problem. ”
After the words fell, he looked at the lieutenant in front of him and said.
"So now you need to prepare to get out there and start working on this."
For the Soviet Union, the issue they have always been worried about is security. After all, the Patriotic War more than 20 years ago brought painful lessons. Almost everyone dare not take the war issue lightly. After all, no one can guarantee that the enemy will attack them again in the early morning.
"Then when will I go there?"
Regarding the mission assigned by the director, the lieutenant asked without thinking.
"Do I have a contact there?"
To carry out such a task in a place, you definitely need a contact person.
"This is a brand new industry, and we have not had the right people to enter here before, so everything is starting from scratch. First, we need to send some people into this industry, and your job there is to serve as Their online, control those people, and obtain this information through them.”
This is the most basic intelligence operation. It seems basic, but everything is started from scratch, and the difficulty can be imagined.
Then the colonel took out a file and said:
"This is the guy we're going to send out, he's going to go to NBC through other channels, and you guys go in there separately."
On this day, in the office of Bureau T, a plan aimed at improving the level of Soviet Russia's integrated circuits through special means was quietly launched.
A few hours later, the lieutenant in a coat left Byanka Square. The lieutenant walked into the subway station and got on the subway.
Although the female officer is very beautiful, and her uniform also highlights her heroic appearance, no one looks at her. They only glance at her from a distance, and then turn their heads in a hurry. After all, everyone is looking at her. Knows what her uniform represents. Everyone keeps a respectful distance from those people.
The lieutenant was already used to this kind of reaction from people. After all, she took this subway to and from get off work every day.
But the difference between today and the past is that this is the last time she takes this subway to get off work.
In a few days, she will go to a strange place, which is not even a country, but a company - a colonial company belonging to the old era, with a very special identity.
Soon he got off at another subway station, and when he got off, she saw the poster on the wall. The poster depicts a soldier from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Below him were clusters of dark shadows.
The poster clearly says:
"Be alert, beware of spies stealing our secrets."
(End of chapter)