Chapter 1364 The shock of black technology (second update, please subscribe)
Sometimes, some things are unimaginable.
People always imagine things they have never seen before. When someone said this in the past, Zhang Sen would scoff.
But now he was really stunned.
Now, when Zhang Sen looked at the "metal cigarette box" in his hand, his eyes were filled with astonishment.
"This, is this a phone?"
This is a bit incredible. Looking at the phone in his hand, Zhang Sen didn't even know how to summarize the characteristics of this product. The first thing he thought of was - light and thin.
And it’s incredible!
There is an unrealistic feeling like holding a toy in your hand. This simple design with only a disk dialer and antenna has a unique and extremely avant-garde aesthetic.
Zhang Sen's expression fell in Kochenkov's eyes, making him say with pride:
"Yes, this is our Soviet mobile phone - ЛК-3. It can make calls at will within 200 kilometers of Moscow and Petrograd."
The reason why he emphasizes this point is that a few years ago, the Voronezh Institute of Communications developed the Soviet first-generation vehicle-mounted mobile phone "Altai". The initial communication network was established in Petrograd, and later Moscow also had "Altai". There was only one base station located on the tallest building in Moscow, with a total of 16 channels, covering a range of tens of kilometers. Mobile phones were installed in cars. , mainly used by national leaders and senior generals.
The ЛК-3 uses its signal. Even though it is so small, Soviet engineers have unlocked an astonishing communication range of 200 kilometers through unremitting improvements in antennas and telephone terminals.
Seeing Zhang Sen, the deputy manager of Volkswagen, being surprised like this, Kochenkov finally got his wish. After all, he had seen too many amazing things in Nanyang. Now, it was time to let them experience it. The Soviet Union was shocked.
"Yes, Mr. Zhang, in order to ensure the progress of the project, I specially applied for this phone for you. With it, we can keep in touch anytime and anywhere. This is to facilitate our contact."
"This, this...do all you Soviets use this?"
Zhang Sen asked in shock:
"Yes, many Soviet people use it."
In fact, this ЛК-3 is just a test product. Its unit price is as high as 600 rubles. In the Soviet Union, this was not a small amount of money, enough to buy a motorcycle! Unless the Soviet government and big businesses paid for it, there was no way out simply relying on the consumption power of ordinary Soviet people at that time.
But how can ordinary people afford it?
Such an answer was just Kochenkov's "talking skills", but no matter what, Zhang Sen was still deeply shocked.
After all, this thing is too high-tech!
Zhang Sen asked curiously:
"So when I get to Togliatti, can I still use it?"
Faced with his question, Kochenkov replied:
"Well, it's not possible yet, but in the future, after the construction of the car manufacturing plant in Togliatti is completed, you will definitely be able to use this phone."
Togliatti, the city where the car manufacturing plant is located, is nearly 800 kilometers away from Moscow. Even for such black technology, it is too far away.
At this time, in a gentle valley in the Zhiguli Mountains, there was a bustling scene. Moscow was encircling a land of about six square kilometers to build a car city that could accommodate half a million people. The machinery was purchased from Nanyang at government expense.
Workers come from all over the vast territory, and they all dream of living in spacious houses here and driving cars that are called "more advanced than the Volga."
While workers coming from all directions were working in full swing, Zhou Bicheng and his colleagues from Nanyang were guiding Soviet engineers and workers in the construction of steel structure factory buildings.
Steel structure factory buildings were an extremely new thing for Soviet construction engineers. After all, before this, they had only been exposed to factories with brick walls and steel main beams. This is the first time I have come across this kind of light steel structure factory building.
Although it was their first time to come into contact with it, the advantages of its fast construction speed still attracted these Soviet engineers. After all, this kind of factory is now being promoted all over the world.
"The materials required for the light steel structure factory building are new colored profiled steel plates, new high-efficiency cold-formed thin-walled steel, and new hot-rolled steel - H-shaped steel, which is the flagship product of Donghai Steel Company. In construction steel While achieving a breakthrough, its construction also requires a certain foundation in computing theory, and of course the most important thing is the application of electronic computers.”
In front of those Soviet engineers, Zhou Bicheng explained:
"Because light steel structure factory buildings involve a large number of calculation problems, electronic computers are needed for calculations."
"Electronic computer?"
Nicholas asked:
"Are you talking about the kind of electronic computer that is as big as several houses and requires dozens of people to maintain it?"
Other engineers even looked confused and had no idea what an "electronic computer" was.
"It shouldn't be that big."
Zhou Bicheng looked at them puzzled and asked:
"Have you never used an electronic computer? Then what do you use for calculations?"
What to use? Various slide rules and pencils, of course. Looking at the slide rule used by Nicholas and the others, both Zhou Bicheng and others were stunned. Because in Nanyang... they have long used electronic computers to perform these tedious calculations.
"We also have a hand-cranked computer!"
The architect said from the side:
"We will also go and do calculations with it."
Faced with such an answer, Zhou Bicheng and others were immediately stunned. They had no idea that in the Soviet Union, they classified the research and development of computer technology as confidential. Except for the military, only a few research institutes and universities were qualified to have access to computers. .
In the research and development of computer technology and many technologies, the Soviet Union has always used war-mode thinking-that is, highly confidential. Unlike the United States, new technologies are constantly disclosed and applied to the economic field, and market demand stimulates corporate investment and continuously improves the level of the electronics industry.
On the other hand, how far did the Soviet Union, which regarded electronic computers as "top secrets", collapse in the end? In another world, in the 1980s, even Tokyo University was shocked by the extent of the Soviet Union's expansion in the field of computer technology. What they observed after arriving in the Soviet Union was that old-fashioned hand-cranked computers were used everywhere. Moreover, only national departments use computers. Other enterprises rarely have computers. Even the famous Sukhoi Design Bureau actually uses a slide rule to perform various calculations. So much so that one wonders if they are still stuck in the 1950s!
But, this is reality.
Soon, there was an additional machine in the Zhiguli Engineering Headquarters. The machine looked a bit like a combination of a typewriter and a small TV. When it was carried to the table, not only did Nikolai and others come, but even Even Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Automobile Industry Gusev came, and even many employees crowded into this office.
"Is this an electronic computer?"
"Why is it so small? Isn't it the size of several houses?"
Amid great attention, Zhou Bicheng turned on the Wangan 100 electronic computer, which they brought from Nanyang for engineering calculations and other work.
When the computer was turned on and the four black characters "Wang An Computer" flashed on the black screen, the inexplicable impact was indescribable.
"What does it say here?"
Gusev asked the translator next to him, and when the translator told him that this was "Wang An's electronic brain," his eyes were blank.
"Electronic brain? What the hell is this?"
At this time, Gusev didn't know what the hell this was, but soon after turning on the computer, he entered the command. After entering the interface, Zhou Bicheng shouted to the side:
"Nina, don't you have a calculation there? Bring it over and let's use it to calculate."
Like many units in the Soviet Union, there are some full-time calculators. Most of them graduated with mathematics majors and specialize in assisting engineers in calculations. The same goes for Nina, who graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Kiev University. After hearing this, she came over with a pile of materials.
When Zhou Bicheng entered the data, Gusev asked:
"How long will it take you to complete these calculations."
"About two days."
While answering the minister's inquiry, Nina's beautiful blue eyes stared at the screen. Although there were many square words on it, the numbers and symbols were connected.
After entering a series of numbers and symbols, she saw Zhou Bicheng tapping the keyboard with his fingers.
"Da..."
The next moment, Nina, who was silently calculating in her mind, was stunned. She pointed at the screen and murmured:
"This, how could this, this, be calculated like this?"
"Yes, and this..."
With Zhou Bicheng's input and typing, calculation results were obtained one after another. At this time, everyone in the office did not even dare to breathe. They just stared at this magical machine.
There was only the sound of typing on the keyboard in the office. When the calculation results continued to come out, some engineers couldn't control themselves. They even used pens to calculate.
At this time, Zhiguli's office seemed to have become the arena where carriages and trains competed more than a century ago, except that now humans compete with computers.
The outcome of such a game is destined.
The calculations that originally took a day or two to complete were completed in less than an hour. When the dot matrix printer printed out the calculation results, those Soviets holding slide rules and pencils The engineers all looked at the long piece of paper with stunned eyes.
"Are the results correct?"
Gusev no longer needed to ask. He knew just by looking at the expressions of these people. Now he finally understood what it was - an electronic brain!
It can perform calculations like the human brain, only faster!
(End of chapter)