Chapter 828 Killer Application
In addition to these popular booths, other booths are also very popular.
For example, advances in electronic technology have brought smaller and more portable radios, which are also very popular products. However, compared with other products such as cassette recorders, these products are more favored by foreign trade personnel, and ordinary exhibition visitors cannot take them into account. .
In this scene of vitality and competition, some staff came to the exhibition area of the 12th Machinery Department and began to pack up a new booth.
Are there any temporary additions? This made the people watching the exhibition a little surprised, which was rare.
For us, this is our first time, so it’s normal to be a little surprised.
This new booth is very interesting. There are no physical products, only some promotional materials. Some are enlarged and hung on the booth wall. Some are 16-fold paper that can be distributed directly, stacked on the glass table. .
Two staff members were debugging the computer, laughing while debugging.
"This database is so convenient. It is very easy to add or delete sales items."
"Yes, in the past, this kind of work required a day anyway, but now it only takes ten minutes of typing on the keyboard."
"..."
The two were joking and working at the same time, but their conversation attracted the attention of some visitors who were watching curiously as they arranged the new booth.
When their work came to an end and they were packing up their things and preparing to hand over their computers to the booth staff, they were stopped by an old man.
"Davari, can you introduce to me your sales software? I noticed that it seems to be very different."
This is Lao Maozi's computer expert, who has very keen technical observation. Lao Maozi roughly knows what we are going to do this time, and the people who come here are quite professional.
"Ah, hello, you mean this sales system? It's actually relatively simple. It's just a simple application of the database. It's not complicated." These two people were sent by the 12th Machinery Department to be responsible for the layout and maintenance of the sales computers in the entire exhibition hall. One of the staff members knows the software situation very well, but this is obviously not the place for them to talk at length, so their answers are relatively concise.
Although it was concise, this old computer expert and some foreign guests, including the Gauls next to him, were still very keen to grasp the key points during the translation process.
"Database? What software is this?"
This seemingly huge topic suddenly overwhelmed our staff, and we couldn't hold classes for you here.
Fortunately, they are also well-trained and point their hands forward.
"You can go to the software product exhibition area of our 12th Machinery Department, where all your questions can be answered." That's right, not only do we sell hardware, we also display and sell software.
What's the point of selling computer hardware alone? If you want to sell it, you have to sell it together with the software and the ecosystem. Once this ship comes on board, it will not be so easy to get rid of it.
Of course, the little devil's shabby operation of relying on fax machines and floppy disks to do election and polling work in the 2020s has nothing to do with ecology, and is purely self-contained.
The foreign guests nodded with satisfaction, but they were not in a hurry. They knew that there is no production capacity problem with software, and they can give you as much as you want. If you are anxious, I will give you a blank disk and make a copy. It’s not impossible. Thinking of this, they once again felt the goodness of floppy disks.
They are still here to see what this temporary queue-jumping thing is, which allows us to break the rules and make this kind of arrangement, which is rare in large-scale formal exhibitions.
The promotional materials hanging on the wall are still in quadruplicate. The five official languages of the League of Nations are gathered here. As the official language of the League of Nations, it is very normal for these languages to appear anywhere, including on instructions growing in the desert. .
"VCR!!!"
After seeing the product above, their first reaction was surprise. Forget about cassette tape recording, it can even record videos?
Some of them know that there are video tape recorders, but the price is not within the reach of ordinary consumers. In any case, the estimated selling price announced in the promotional materials, based on the weight ratio, even the reel of the video tape recorder I can't even buy a motor.
And more people don't know these backgrounds at all. They only know that Easterners are selling video recorders! ! !
This thing is a perfect match for a color TV! Who doesn’t want to pick out a plate of their favorite scallops on a leisurely weekend, eat snacks, drink beer, and lie on the sofa and watch the beautiful things for a few hours?
So their second reaction was to attack the booth staff.
I want to buy it! Our country wants to buy it!
Not only fight for yourself, but also fight for the country.
But this time, they don't have to be so anxious.
"Dear guests, please be patient. This product is still in mass production and debugging. It is not yet available for supply. The supply period will be six months later. If you are interested in purchasing, you can register with us first."< br>
Although the staff was smiling and very polite, what they said made people on the scene very discouraged, especially the individual buyers.
"Comrade, that individual consumer..." "Don't worry, individual consumers can also register. We will still sell at preferential prices. Once production is put into production, we will produce the orders for individual consumers at this exhibition with the highest priority and pass them through Delivery will be done through foreign affairs channels, and fees will be charged at that time.”
This may be the highest-standard delivery method of personal consumer goods in history. There is no way. Logistics these days is not as developed as it will be in the future. Without the intervention of foreign affairs channels, it is very difficult to send goods directly to individuals.
Although it is a bit troublesome, it is still worth it in exchange for the goodwill of the guests at the exhibition and the image of our commitment.
How many people can be in the entire exhibition? This thing is not cheap, how many can afford it? And for this group of people who can buy, leaving a good impression on them is definitely a sure profit.
We are not groveling, but we are honest and trustworthy.
The booth was immediately surrounded, and there were even more individual buyers than trade staff. For trade staff, they may not be in a hurry and want to wait and see, but for individuals, the situation is different.
After passing this village, there is really no such shop!
This was different from others. The Friendship Store had nothing to sell, and this was their only chance to get a video cassette recorder at a low price as quickly as possible.
There are many people who want to resell one. Once you get this thing, it is very easy to change hands. The price difference of several hundred Citicoins is not a small number.
Anyway, I just registered my name and didn’t pay any money, so what should I be afraid of?
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Not to mention, for people from Economic Aid Countries, this industry can make a lot of money.
In the exhibition area of the 12th Machinery Department, in sharp contrast to the bustling crowds of these consumer products, is the software area, which looks deserted and deserted.
These days, any computer software is out of reach for individuals, because there is no demand or market at all. Ordinary people don’t have the hardware conditions first—computers are too expensive!
Therefore, only professionals stop here to visit.
The staff at the booth had already expected this situation, so they were not worried and still warmly entertained every visitor.
Although this place is sparsely populated, it is actually one of the places that the Ministry of Foreign Trade attaches most importance to.
Although there are few people, every product here has two distinctive features.
——The cost is extremely low and the price is extremely expensive.
Another hidden feature is that as long as people want to buy any product here, in this era, for them, these products are a necessity.
Operating systems, email systems, software development systems, communications software, mathematical computing environments, and even a few games...
The computer we sell does not come with software. It only has the earliest and most basic cycle duty environment, as well as the supporting C language compiler and simple editor. There is not even a systematic programming environment. The main one is one that can be started and moved. , buy it back and capable professionals can program it yourself or use it, or you can buy software here.
If the above things are basically used by professionals, then the remaining ones are the latest ones that are useful for most industries. Their comprehensive capabilities will have a proper name in later generations.
——Killer application.
This software is a database system.
The people who come here are all professionals and are familiar with most of the previous software. The only thing they have to communicate with the staff is the order quantity.
But the remaining difference has never been heard of, seen, or used, and people know nothing about it.
So the most concentrated communication is related to it.
For computer professionals, they will be attracted by the introduction of the database system hanging on the wall.
"... This is a new generation of large-scale comprehensive application software developed by my country's famous computer technology expert Comrade Gao Zhendong and led by software technicians. This software can be used for the storage and management of various types of data, has simple statistical analysis functions, and Support external applications to call the data in the database for further applications through query language..."
Apart from anything else, the ability to store and manage data well makes visiting computer professionals salivate.
"...The system can run independently of other applications. A database system can serve multiple different applications. The data is organized and managed in the form of database-table-column in the database, and is isolated from each other. Data storage for different applications In different database files, they do not affect each other and are easy to use..."
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