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Lebedev's five members and several key members of the Shanghai Institute of Computer Science all surrounded him: "What is this?"

Tang Hua: "This is a game."

Tang Hua ran the program copied into the computer, and the screen on the 14-inch monitor changed.

The T52 computer does not have graphics functions, but in the character set composed of letters and symbols planned by Tang Hua, there are tabs and color blocks...

Every 4 color blocks form a group, and there are five shapes: a long strip, a field, an L shape, a Z shape and a T shape.

"These four brick-like shapes will appear randomly, and you can see what the next shape will be on the right, but you can't predict what the next shape will be. When a shape appears from the top of the screen, it will appear with a certain The speed is falling down." Tang Hua explained the gameplay to the audience.

"This key is to adjust the orientation of the bricks. Every time you press it, the bricks will rotate 90 degrees clockwise."

"These two keys are to adjust the position of the bricks, left or right."

"The purpose of the game is to arrange the position of the bricks just right to form one or more rows of solid walls without gaps at the bottom of the screen. Complete solid walls will disappear, and there will be additional rewards for disappearing 2 to 4 rows of solid walls at a time .The solid wall disappears one line, making the bricks below the screen one less line, but not the ones with gaps."

"When the pile of bricks fills the entire screen, it's game over. The more solid lines you make and match before then, the more points you get."

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Tang Hua taught a few people how to play in 5 minutes, and then he gave way to Lebedev to watch him try to manipulate the bricks to move left and right and change directions clumsily.After operating for a while, the old column met, and then Andre changed...

Taking advantage of this time, Tang Hua walked out of the conference hall and went to his office to see if there were any documents or telegrams to deal with.

After reading the 1951 work summary sent by Huawei from Guangzhou, I wrote a reply, telling them that the picture tube production equipment in the UK in 1951 is expected to be smuggled to Guangzhou in March and April, so that Huawei is ready to receive it. It is best to learn the production equipment in advance Manipulation.

Then there is the headache of computer capacity expansion.Now the T51/T52 computer and the PJX-1 field artillery computer are made in the same assembly plant.The monthly production of general-purpose computers is about 20 units, and the PJX-1 has maintained at the level of 12 units per month for more than half a year. It seems that the monthly production capacity will reach 40-50 units within half a year. To double the rhythm, another assembly workshop must be built.

He raised his wrist to look at the time, more than two hours had passed.Back in the conference hall, seven or eight people were having fun around the T52 computer.

Leaning over to take a look, yo, Andre's hands are the fastest, even catching up with Tang Hua himself.

Let them play by themselves...

Tang Hua went out again to the supercomputing hall to see if there was any problem with the cable connections of the 16 new cabinets, and then checked the installation of the 4 monitors.

Back to the modified T51 computer that wrote the "Tetris" program, Tang Hua suddenly remembered something: this modified computer runs at a frequency of 40 Hz, while the T52 computer operates at 50K Hz.

Today's computers don't have a built-in clock, and Tang Hua's games are timed by the operating frequency (period) of the computer's processing unit.

In other words, Lao Lie and the others are playing Tetris at 1.25x speed...

Fortunately, Lao Lie didn't make a 100K Hz overclocker, otherwise they would play at 2.5 times speed as soon as they got started.

After another hour, Tang Hua finished all the things that could be dealt with, and returned to the conference room to drink milk tea and watch their game battle.

"Comrades, colleagues," the milk tea was finished, Tang Hua really had to stop, "It's dinner time."

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On the day when the Shanghai Institute of Computer Science was playing "Bricks", Steve Russell was still in middle school in New Hampshire. In 1954 he would be admitted to Dartmouth College, where the "father of computer games" had his first contact with computers.Eight-year-old Nolan Bushnell, one of the founders of what would become the video game, was supposed to be catching dragonflies in Clearfield, Utah.

"Tang, Minister Tang." Although Wang Shoujue was holding a knife and fork, his face was still flushed with excitement just now, "What we played just now is called a game?"

Tang Hua: "I call this game 'Bricks'."

Wang Shoujue: "I never thought computers could be used like this!"

Tang Hua: "Any educational and entertainment interaction that uses running electronic programs is called a game, or a video game. We will have other video games in the future, which may be more fun."

Lebedev: "So today is the day the world's first video game was born?"

Chapter 200, Expansion of Exports by the Electronics Industry

"In the whole year of 1951, the preliminary statistics of my country's total export value were about 27 trillion yuan, and the total import value was 36 trillion yuan. The import and export balance exceeded 8 trillion yuan."

"Among the 36 trillion yuan of imports, 10.16 trillion yuan was a loan provided by the Soviet Union to purchase weapons and ammunition needed to resist US aggression and aid Korea. Therefore, my country's normal import and export trade in 1951 exceeded 1.16 trillion yuan, which is the same as that in 1950 and 1949. That's a big change from [-]."

During the working meeting of the State Council, Minister of Trade Ye Jizhuang reported the import and export situation of the year to the Prime Minister.Of course, these import and export figures are only domestic imports and exports, and China Resources' last year's profit of 980 million U.S. dollars was classified as party property and managed separately.

...The old RMB currency counts as many as 27 characters. This figure looks very bluffing. In fact, when converted into new currency, the export is 36 billion, the import is 63 billion, and the total import and export is only [-] billion.

Prime Minister: "From the beginning of the Opium War, the foreign trade of old China was in excess for most of the years, and we achieved it in the third year. It is really not easy."

Ye Jizhuang: "The export goods in 1951 were still dominated by agriculture and mining. These two exports totaled 19 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 70% of the total export. In terms of commodities, the ranking of export goods in 1951 was: first grain, The export value is 3.77 trillion yuan; the second is ore, the export value is 2.9 trillion yuan; the third is electronic products, the export value is 1.89 trillion yuan, the fourth is animal husbandry products, the export value is 1.73 trillion yuan, and the fifth is forest... "

Ye Jizhuang listed the top 10 categories of goods in terms of export volume, and finally concluded: "In 1951, the total export volume increased by 1950% compared with 30, but the domestic production of agricultural and animal husbandry products grew relatively slowly. Therefore, in 1952, we had to do It is difficult to achieve a substantial increase. The export of ore products is limited by the natural reserves and the scale of mining. If a large-scale increase in ore exports is to be carried out, large-scale infrastructure construction is required. The export volume of electronic products increased by 1951% compared with 103, ranking It rose sharply to No. 3. Therefore, from the perspective of the Ministry of Trade, the export of electronic products in 1952 can be focused on and strive to reach another level.”

Prime Minister: "You had a lot of negotiations with Soviet comrades at the end of 1950. The Electronic Information Industry Bureau and the Ministry of Foreign Trade are also closely connected. The needs of the Electronic Information Industry Bureau will be fed back to you in the shortest time. Conversely, if you have any Requests can also be made to Tang Hua."

Ye Jizhuang: "Tang Hua had already sent the export plan to the Soviet Union in 1952 years ago. His first item was... the export of a kind of electronic product goods. The name was not written in the report. The total contract value was 1 million rubles. , of which 6 million rubles, or 1952 trillion yuan, will be completed in 1. With this contract alone, the total export volume of electronic products in 1 will set a record... Prime Minister, what is this product that is so powerful?"

Prime Minister: "This is a confidential import and export agreement between China and the Soviet Union. The payment for the goods is collected by the Ministry of Trade, but you don't need to ask about other things."

Ye Jizhuang: "I know what Tang Hua wrote next. I have seen the voting and counting system in the CPPCC. Tang Hua wants us to win the Supreme Soviet Conference Hall of the 1952 republics of the Soviet Union in 5. The order is 3000 million rubles. In addition, the T52 computer will be launched simultaneously in China and the Soviet Union in February 1952. The price is slightly higher than that of the T2, from 51 rubles to 52 rubles. Tang Hua said that the sales of the T72 computer are similar to last year’s T52 You can do that, but his focus is on the fourth point, and he wants to ask the Ministry of Foreign Trade to cooperate with him to do a good job in the sales of radios, TVs and microphones to the Soviet Union."

Prime Minister: "The radio is the kind of iron box that is as big as a dictionary? I remember that the price is very cheap. It costs more than 300 rubles, and it takes more than 2000 radios to sell a computer."

Ye Jizhuang: "Tang Hua stated in the plan that the goal in 1952 is to sell 10 radios in the Soviet Union."

Prime Minister:……

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The reconstruction of the Soviet Union after World War II was very fast. In 1947, food stamps were abolished, and by 1950, the shortage of manpower was also alleviated (a large number of children during World War II grew up to 18 years old). In 1952, the national average salary in the Soviet Union reached 700 rubles, the monthly salary of workers who had attended a technical school and had certain skills was 800-900 rubles, and the maximum salary of engineers and senior technicians was 3000 rubles.

The wages are not low, and the consumer goods available in the market are relatively monotonous... With a population of 1.7 million, a high rate of industrialization and relatively high money income, this is a big market.

There were no mobile phones or laptops in this era, and radios and televisions were probably the most high-end electronic consumer goods in Soviet households. Radios corresponded to the ordinary working class, and remote-controlled TVs corresponded to the senior working class in the Soviet Union.

In fact, it's not just about selling radios, Tang Hua also has more interesting small items that he can sell.

"Minister Tang, the first batch of 100 tape players has been produced."

The Wuxi Tape Player Factory and the Wuxi Radio Factory are next to each other. Tang Hua has already made plans that the two factories can be merged in two years.

The reason why it is placed in Wuxi is because Wuxi is close to Suzhou.

Suzhou Magnetic Machinery Factory has fixed tape storage, so there is no reason why it can't handle tape storage songs.However, in 1951, the main problem to be solved in Suzhou and Wuxi was how to reduce the cost of magnetic tape systems and magnetic heads.

Tape storage is an accessory of computers, and the premium of computers is so high that even the Prime Minister is afraid. The way T50 and T51 are sold in China is personally determined by the Prime Minister: if universities and research institutes decide to purchase computers, they must first make a report, and the state will provide 35 billion yuan in financial subsidies, and the universities themselves only need to pay 15 billion yuan, a total of 50 billion yuan. Yuan, pay the money with one hand, and receive the computer with the other hand.

Then the Ministry of Electronics and Information Industry, the factory collected 50 billion yuan, and sent 35 billion yuan of it back to the country...

The reason why it was so troublesome was that the comrades in the Soviet Union would find something wrong: this computer sold for 50 rubles in the Soviet Union, but why the price in China was 15 billion RMB instead of 55 billion based on the exchange rate?

In short, it doesn't matter if the computer parts are a little more expensive, anyway, they are making money.Tape players were different.This is a consumer electronics product.With an average salary of seven or eight hundred rubles a month, Soviet workers should pay no more than 1000 rubles for the purchase of a large consumer product.More than this number, he may have to consider many factors when purchasing.