The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 171: How about selling the CD for $?
"So we need to vigorously develop our computer technology, actively integrate into the internet world, and even lead its development, rather than being led by others."

After Wang Duoyu finished speaking, Zhou Jimin suddenly asked:

"Professor Wang, is this why you developed distributed computers?"

Wang Duoyu shook his head and said:

"Leader Zhou, distributed computing is just a helpless measure at this stage. It will not play a big role in promoting the development of the Internet world."

"The real driving force behind the development of computer technology should be chip technology, processor technology, memory technology, etc. Our Harbin Institute of Technology currently has an optical disk storage project, which will play a very important role in promoting the development of the Internet world."

"The 749th Bureau can no longer remain closed off from the outside world. Instead, it should actively embrace the world and promote the development of computer technology with a more proactive attitude."

Lei Daqing suddenly said:

"Professor Wang, what you said is too broad, and we don't know what to do specifically."

Hearing this, Wang Duoyu fell silent.

What the other party said made a lot of sense, and at this time his preaching was completely like talking to a cow to them.

It is said that people cannot teach people, but they can learn it in one go through experience.

Bureau 749 had not experienced the despair of information warfare, and the Gulf War had not yet happened, so they could not understand what the information war that Wang Duoyu was talking about was.

The so-called hackers only appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so talking about these things with Zhou Jimin and others at this time was a bit "unfounded worry".

After pondering for a while, Wang Duoyu said:

"Leader Zhou, Director Lei, Director Qiu, my suggestion is very simple. If you have any codes that you can't solve in Bureau 749, please send them to me for help."

"On the other hand, I will continue to promote the development of various computer technologies here at Harbin Institute of Technology. Although your 749th Bureau is not a research and development unit, you have a very large talent pool. If possible, I still hope that you can help to establish and develop some small projects."

Zhou Jimin and others nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

"Haha, our 749th Bureau has been established for so many years, but this is the first time we've carried out a technology research and development mission."

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu also smiled.

After chatting with Zhou Jimin and others in the principal's office for a long time, they left satisfied.

Came quietly and left quietly.

During the whole process, no one knew they were coming.

The people in the 749th Bureau have achieved the ultimate in confidentiality.

When Wang Duoyu came out of the principal's office, Niu Ruishan had already sent someone to find him. The CD-ROM storage project had reached the acceptance stage.

Upon hearing the news, Wang Duoyu was overjoyed and hurried to the laboratory.

When entering this laboratory, you must wear shoe covers and make sure the laboratory is clean and tidy.

Although this is not a dust-free workshop and does not have such high protection requirements, it is definitely very clean.

In this day and age, anything related to computers must be clean and tidy.

For example, a few months ago, in the computer room built near the Harbin Institute of Technology library, people were required to wear shoe covers and were not allowed to bring any food or water into the computer room. If they wanted to drink water, they could only come to the door of the computer room to drink water.

The level of strictness is simply astonishing.

"Team Leader Niu, is it really ready for testing and acceptance? Are you kidding me?"

After Wang Duoyu came in, he couldn't wait to ask.

At this time, Niu Ruishan was holding a CD and observing carefully. When he saw Wang Duoyu coming, he immediately put down the CD carefully and said:
"Professor Wang, you're finally here. How dare I joke with you?"

"After more than half a year of hard work, our team has developed a write-once optical disc."

The optical disk storage project was launched in late March this year and is led by Niu Ruishan.

During that period in March, Wang Duoyu was very busy with work, so he didn't give much guidance to Niu Ruishan.

It was not until Wang Duoyu returned from hunting in Mohe in mid-to-early June and before going to the United States to give a report that he followed up on this project around the clock.

In fact, the technology of this CD storage project is not very complicated.

You should know that CDs are carefully made of multiple layers of materials, mainly including inner, middle and outer layers.

The inner layer of the core layer is mainly made of polymer materials such as polycarbonate. After special processing, it has a smooth surface similar to glass, which facilitates the reflection and focusing of the laser.

The research and development of these polymer materials requires a lot of technical talents.

As an industrial university, Harbin Institute of Technology may not be as good as Peking University in terms of talent reserves, but in terms of science and engineering, it is definitely in the first echelon of domestic universities.

Of course, if Harbin Institute of Technology still existed, then Harbin Institute of Technology might be a little bit worse.

Because when Harbin Institute of Technology was still in existence, Harbin Institute of Technology was raised by a stepmother, and the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building was also very weak at that time. There was no way around it, because the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building started with the number seven, and was naturally inferior to other industrial machinery departments.

Even the boss of Harbin Institute of Technology, the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building, is far behind. It is normal that Harbin Institute of Technology is poor and cannot compare with Harbin Institute of Technology.

Without mentioning these old things, Harbin Institute of Technology now has talents in science and engineering in many fields, so it is natural that it is making great strides in the research and development of optical disc storage technology.

After mastering the core inner layer materials and process technologies, Niu Ruishan and his entire technical team began to work on the middle and outer layers.

The middle layer is the cladding, which is usually made of metal materials such as aluminum or iron. It is relatively thin and its main function is to protect the inner layer and have a smooth emitting surface.

From a technical and technological perspective, the middle layer is much simpler.

The outer layer is a protective cover made of plastic material. Its purpose is to protect the overall structure of the CD and imitate scratches.

Therefore, after the overall technical structure and materials of the CD were completely finalized, Niu Ruishan and his entire team worked day and night, and finally, at the beginning of November, they were the first to come up with a laboratory version of a one-time write CD.

After Niu Ruishan finished introducing all the technologies, Wang Duoyu immediately said: Let’s test it right away!
In the entire laboratory, everyone was very nervous and serious, with anticipation in their eyes.

Niu Ruishan and his team have prepared a total of ten CDs for testing. Whether they can be successfully completed depends on the test results.

As we all know, the data stored on the CD is presented in binary form. In order to facilitate reading and understanding, it needs to be converted into a specific character set and encoding method.

When Wang Duoyu was developing this project, he had already proposed two encoding methods.

One is the Chinese character set standard. The advantage of this thing is that the encoding is simple and has good compatibility.

The second is the Unicode encoding standard, which is an internationally accepted character encoding standard that can cover almost all characters in the world. Its advantage is excellent compatibility, and its disadvantage is naturally a relatively low compression rate.

Why are there two encoding methods?
Because the first type is for domestic use, and the second type is a product exported abroad to earn foreign exchange.

Moreover, this coding method also allows the price of this product to skyrocket when it goes abroad, earning three, five, or even ten times the profit. Then, domestic pirates will not be able to make a profit by reselling the product.

This technology must be strictly controlled at the source.

“It worked, it really worked, it’s great.”

With the final test completed, the files on the burned CD could be read and written smoothly on another computer, and the researchers who performed the test were immediately amazed.

Wang Duoyu, Niu Ruishan and others who were standing nearby also laughed.

As of now, optical disc storage has finally been fully developed.

The funds originally invested can be recovered very quickly.

The whole laboratory was suddenly filled with cheers and everyone was very happy.

Two hours later, school leaders including Li Rui, Liu Deben and Han Jue also came to the laboratory and witnessed the magic of the optical disc storage product with their own eyes.

A write-once CD can store 650MB of data, which is far superior to today's cassette and hard drive storage.

In 1311, IBM released the first removable hard disk drive 14, which consisted of six 2.6-inch platters and could store MB of data.

In 3340, IBM launched the Winchester hard drive 60, which used sealed components, lubricated spindles and low-mass magnetic heads and had a storage capacity of MB.

This year, IBM launched the first GB-level storage hard drive, the IBM 3380. This hard drive is designed by stacking multiple hard drives together, enabling it to achieve a storage capacity of 1GB.

In addition, IBM3380 is connected to the host system through a dedicated parallel channel interface, and the transmission speed reaches 3MB/s.

However, the price of the most basic model of an IBM 3380 hard drive is as high as US dollars. Depending on the model and function, the price ranges between and US dollars.

Because an IBM 3380 hard drive is the size of a refrigerator and weighs kilograms.

However, in addition to the IBM 3380, Seagate, a California-based hard disk manufacturer, also launched a ST506 hard disk product this year. It is 5.25 inches in size and has a capacity of 5MB, but is priced at only US$1500.

The price is very low, which is certainly very tempting for consumers.

The one-time read-write optical disc storage developed by the Harbin Institute of Technology's optical disc storage project has a capacity of 650MB, but if it is produced according to laboratory costs, the cost of each disc is 89 yuan.

Of course, this cost does not include other costs such as manpower and equipment, it only refers to the cost of materials.

Even so, the cost price of 89 yuan is surprisingly low.

And after the factory goes into production, costs will definitely continue to fall.

“That’s wonderful, so delightful.”

After listening to this, Li Rui and others all started dancing with joy.

Because similar foreign products simply do not have such cost and technological advantages, it is almost foreseeable that once this optical disc storage device is released, it will inevitably be snapped up by foreigners.

The next day, in the meeting room, Wang Duoyu proposed:

"Secretary, Principal, we need to split into three groups. The first is to immediately tidy up the factory and install and debug the production equipment."

"Priority should be given to producing CDs with standard Chinese character set encoding. Harbin Institute of Technology itself needs a lot of these CDs. The library alone needs more than 500 CDs."

The library has a paper duplication checking system and also a library management system.

So the demand for CDs is very high.

It is impossible to save this part of the cost.

However, the reading speed of the CD is not as good as that of the IBM3380 product, and Harbin Institute of Technology cannot spend so much money to buy IBM's IBM3380 hard drive because it is too expensive.

In this case, Wang Duoyu could only find a way to increase the reading and writing speed of the CD and solve this problem from the software and hardware levels.

We can discuss the relevant technologies later. Anyway, the project team members are all here, and Wang Duoyu will record them and solve these problems when he has time.

The factory building issue was actually very simple. Due to Wang Duoyu's previous suggestion, a number of factories were built inside and outside the Harbin Institute of Technology campus before winter.

This is just the fifth phase of the factory invested and built by Diao Pai Company, and there are still many empty factories.

Therefore, the production task of optical disc storage can be directly shared with Diao Pai Company in the factory.

After all, it is centralized heating, and it can save some expenses.

It is now early November. The temperature in the Ice City has long been below zero and the heating has been turned off, so it is impossible to carry out factory construction.

"To ease the financial pressure, we also need to reserve some production capacity in our factory for the production of Unicode-encoded CDs."

When Wang Duoyu said this, Liu Deben asked a question: How to set the price!

At this time, Shang Zhongmin was the first to express his opinion, which was that it was higher than the $506 price of Seagate's ST1500 product, but definitely lower than IBM3380.

As the leader of the sales team, Professor Shang Zhongmin often deals with foreigners and is more familiar with foreign markets, so his words carry great weight.

"Professor Shang, just tell me how much it is!" Han Jue frowned and asked directly.

After all, what the other party said was complete nonsense.

You should know that the CD capacity of Harbin Institute of Technology is 650MB, which is 506MB more than the 5MB capacity of ST645. The two sides are completely not in the same league.

A typical case of being not as good as the best but better than the worst.

"I think it's about $5,000 a CD."

After Shang Zhongmin finished speaking, everyone exclaimed.

It’s not that I think the price is too high, but that it’s too low.

why?
Because the minimum price of the IBM3380 hard drive product is 1 US dollars, and its capacity is only GB.

要知道1GB等于1024MB，也就是说两块光盘的容量就已经超过一块IBM3380了，尽管IBM3380的读取速度是3MB/s，比975KB/s的光盘快多了。

But the two CDs only cost $1, which was still $3380 less than the IBM .

In this case, isn’t it too cheap?
Especially Niu Ruishan, as the person in charge of the optical disk storage project, felt aggrieved and immediately opposed it.

Han Jue and others also expressed their support for Niu Ruishan, saying that the price should not be so low.

Wang Duoyu didn't say anything. He was a little speechless. The scene before him seemed to be a case of each party having their own reasons, but in fact it was just a mess and a waste of time.

Three minutes later, Wang Duoyu knocked on the table, and after the meeting room was completely quiet, he said:
"While we at Harbin Institute of Technology value democracy, we must also remember what a great man once said: 'Without investigation, there is no right to speak.'"

"I completely agree with Professor Shang. Five thousand dollars isn't too low, but it's not too high either."

"In July of this year, I went to the United States and visited universities such as Princeton University, Stony Brook University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Do you know what I learned during my visits to these schools?"

"Almost every school has many computers in their labs, and all kinds of hard drives can be seen everywhere."

"Their office information technology is more popular, but we also need to know that the computer-related products produced by IBM and Seagate are not cheap."

"So when we set prices, we have to consider many factors, including the market and competitors. You probably remember the phrase 'harmony in the eyes of the world'? It's not a good phrase, but if we really set a very low price, we'll likely be attacked by our foreign counterparts."

After hearing what Wang Duoyu said, Han Jue couldn't help but retort, saying, why are the battery prices of Diao Pai Company so low?

Diao Pai Company's battery products are indeed far cheaper than similar foreign products, but there is nothing that can be done about it.

why?
Because it is necessary to break down competition barriers and local protectionism, otherwise, how can Diao Pai Company make money?

If the price of batteries is only a few dollars lower than similar foreign products, would those foreign companies be willing to take the risk?
Of course I don’t want to!
Because those foreign companies have fixed suppliers and have had friendly cooperative relationships for many years. How could they risk destroying the cooperative relationship for such a small amount of money? What if after taking the risk, the supply from Diao Pai Company is insufficient?

You should know that Diao Pai Company is a factory in China. Canadian and other companies have never cooperated with domestic factories and don’t know the situation.

At this time, apart from tempting them with benefits, can we impress them with technology alone?
Don't be naive. Capital is profit-seeking. When there is enough profit, they will definitely take the risk of finding a new way to break through the patent barriers, or even shamelessly file a lawsuit.

Foreigners can afford it, but can Diao Pai Company afford it?

Wang Duoyu naturally took all these factors into consideration and did not want Diao Pai Company’s newly launched product to be destroyed.

Therefore, a heavy blow is the best way. After Wang Duoyu finished explaining, Han Jue and others suddenly fell silent.

"So I think our memory pricing can be divided into two phases. The first phase is our first wave of pricing this year. Due to limited production, the price was directly set at $49."

"Next year, when our production volume stabilizes, we can use some promotional items to offer discounts. For example, if they purchase 500 discs, the price can be reduced to four sixes or four sevenes per disc. In short, as production increases, the more they buy, and the lower our unit price will be."

hiss!
Following Wang Duoyu's words, everyone in the conference room took a deep breath.

That makes sense!

This product sales strategy is absolutely amazing!

The advantages of optical disc storage are obvious, and Harbin Institute of Technology does not have no overseas connections, so there is no problem in sales.

Therefore, by selling optical disc storage according to this strategy, it is entirely possible to maximize profits.

After thinking about it, Li Rui and Liu Deben agreed with Wang Duoyu's pricing strategy.

Since the two patriarchs have already expressed their agreement, Han Jue, Shang Zhongmin, Niu Ruishan and others will naturally not object.

"Okay, that's the pricing thing settled. Now let's move on to the second point!"

Wang Duoyu continued:
"Team Leader Niu, we can further explore our optical disc storage project. For example, we have optical discs that can write and erase data multiple times, and we also have a new generation of optical disc storage with data storage capacity reaching GB levels."

"And the higher-capacity Blu-ray Disc technology, which can store up to 25GB of data. This kind of large-capacity storage is very important to us, so I hope that Team Leader Niu can keep up the good work and create more success."

hiss!
The entire conference room gasped again.

Even Li Rui, Liu Deben, Han Jue and others who didn't know much about memory, their eyes lit up when they heard about the 25GB memory capacity.

My goodness, how much would such a large capacity memory cost?
How about selling the CD for $140,000?
"Okay, Professor Wang, I promise to complete the task." Niu Ruishan said excitedly, but then he looked worried because he was short of people.

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu looked at Liu Deben and said:

"President, our project is short of people, and we're short of technical talent. So I suggest we continue recruiting externally, especially from Beijing and Shanghai, where we have a large number of technical personnel and universities."

The latter laughed immediately, as he was very familiar with the words.

Han Jue and others were also amused. This was what Wang Duoyu suggested when Diao Pai Company and other projects were launched.

The Ice City is located in the north of my country. Although Northeast China, as the eldest son of the Republic, has gathered many workers and technical talents in the past thirty years, there are very few computer talents in Northeast China.

Peking University already has its own computer science department, while Harbin Institute of Technology's computer science department and mathematics department still share the same department. The gap is huge.

"Secretary, in addition to talented individuals, we've also recruited a number of graduate students this year. Can we have them join the research project team and conduct research while studying?"

Hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Li Rui fell silent.

The application for admission to the Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology was approved in May this year, along with more than ten positions for full professors.

In June, the Graduate School began recruiting students, and by August, a total of 82 graduate students had been admitted.

It’s not that we don’t want to recruit more students, but there are simply not that many people taking the exam.

Take the graduate program in mathematics at the Department of Computational Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology, for example. Who doesn’t know that this major is the best among all universities in the country?

There were quite a few people who registered, more than a hundred in total, but the person who set the test was Wang Duoyu, so only a few people could pass the test.

So there was no other choice, and in the end the entire graduate school only admitted 82 graduate students.

In fact, Wang Duoyu also said that if you apply to the higher authorities, you can get more scholarships and subsidies for master's students, but the information is blocked these days and many people don't know about these things at all.

Therefore, starting from this year, when communicating with other universities, we must mention the salary of Harbin Institute of Technology Graduate School.

Otherwise, we won’t be able to recruit anyone.

There are only 82 master's students in total, and only eight of them are admitted to the Department of Computational Mathematics.

There are only eight of us, how do we divide it?
After thinking about it, Li Rui said that there was no problem. Wang Duoyu saw this and continued:
"Thank you secretary!"

"Team Leader Niu, we can't rush the talent issue. We need to take our time. I will improve the salaries of our project team and increase the scholarships and other related benefits for our HIT students to attract talent."

“But you can’t slack off either.”

"Okay, let's talk about the third thing. Secretary, Principal, I plan to set up another storage project in addition to the CD storage."

what?
Everyone in the conference room looked at Wang Duoyu in surprise again. He was going to set up another R&D project?
My goodness, the CD storage project has just produced results, and the money hasn’t been made yet, and Wang Duoyu is already targeting it again?
The other professors at the meeting all had bitter expressions on their faces, but they had nothing to say.

Since Diao Pai Company made a lot of money from batteries at the beginning of the year, Wang Duoyu has successively established many scientific research projects and directly taken away a large amount of R&D funds.

Especially the handheld game console project, this project alone has spawned several other projects.

Although they are called small projects, each one actually consumes a huge amount of R&D funds.

Therefore, many professors are unable to use these funds to develop their own projects. They can only watch most of the funds being taken away by Wang Duoyu, and they can only get a little share.

For example, the CD-ROM storage project requires the joint research and development of polymer materials with professors of materials science.

In fact, the team of materials science teachers headed by Professor Lao Yuanchang also has their own projects that they want to develop.

Unfortunately, these projects were all made with the money earned by Wang Duoyu. He can carry out whatever project he wants. What can we do?

Li Rui asked in a deep voice:

"Duoyu, what kind of memory do you want to develop? Why not let Team Leader Niu and his team do it?"

In addition, if a new project is established, additional money will be required, and we will also have to compete with Niu Ruishan and others, which is not a good thing.

Wang Duoyu said seriously:
"Secretary, the memory project I'm talking about is definitely different from the optical disk memory project, and this optical disk memory project still requires a lot of technology to be developed. I have high expectations for this project. The output value it will create in the future will be astonishing, and within the next one or two years, optical disk memory will usher in a major change."

In 1965, James Russell of the United States invented optical disc storage. However, this storage technology was far inferior to hard disk and tape storage, and the technical conditions for mass production had not yet been met, so it was not taken seriously.

It wasn't until 1978 that optical disc storage began to be sold on the market, but its storage capacity was very low and it also did not make much of a splash.

In the history of the original time and space, in 1982, a compact optical disc, namely CD, appeared on the market. This was the first generation of optical storage media.

CDs enable the storage and playback of digital music by encoding audio data into digital signals and recording them on optical discs, thus ushering in the digital audio era.

Its storage capacity is 700MB, which can store 74 minutes of audio data.

But now, Wang Duoyu first developed the CD storage and then entered into the research and development of digital audio CDs.

In other words, the CD was almost here.

Although VCD did not appear until the 1990s.

But in this time and space, Wang Duoyu has already taken the lead in bringing out the optical disc storage device. In another two years, he will definitely continue to promote the CD to be put on the market and sold first.

Then in the future, we will definitely go a step further and be the first to bring out VCD.

Therefore, the technical research and development tasks of Niu Ruishan and his team are very, very heavy.

In other words, this technical team cannot be moved. They must maintain their leading position in the field of optical disc storage and become a company like Diao Pai, continuously providing Harbin Institute of Technology with large amounts of sufficient cash.

However, Wang Duoyu also wants to promote the development of computer technology, so both magnetic memory and semiconductor memory technologies must be taken into account.

Especially the flash memory technology, which is very important in the future, and the subsequent related storage media, Wang Duoyu does not want to give up.

If Harbin Institute of Technology wants to catch up with Peking University, it can only start from a few fields such as mathematics, computer science, aerospace, etc. Otherwise, there is basically no possibility.

Forget about the aerospace major. The aerospace major at Harbin Institute of Technology has only been established for less than a year. Wang Duoyu’s own accumulation is not enough, and he doesn’t have the time, so he naturally can’t take care of it.

After he has arranged his mathematics major, he can focus a little and start studying aerospace.

Whether it is aerospace or computer science, these two majors are big spenders.

So if Wang Duoyu wants to do anything, he must have money.

After all, he is not Lin Dehong. It is naive to think that he can accomplish many things with hundreds of millions of dollars.

"Professor Wang, are you saying that there's still a lot of untapped technology in optical disk storage? Aren't you talking about the new generation of optical disk storage and Blu-ray technology? Could there be something else?"

When Niu Ruishan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

As long as there are other continuous technologies, his status will become higher and higher.

Liu Deben, Li Rui, Han Jue, Shang Zhongmin and others' eyes suddenly lit up and they all looked at Wang Duoyu expectantly.

The latter is simply a huge treasure, and I really don’t know how many secrets it hides.

"Don't ask me what other technologies are. For now, you should focus on developing the rewritable and erasable optical disc technology I mentioned earlier. It's not difficult, but it will also take a lot of time and effort."

Wang Duoyu glared at the other party and said in a deep voice:
"Don't be too ambitious and think about advanced technologies like blue light technology. I will be happy if I can develop the technologies I mentioned."

"Secretary, Principal, I want to establish a memory technology project, independent of the optical disk memory project. The relevant R&D personnel can only be found from outside."

After hesitating for a moment, he continued:
"We can directly recruit them with high salaries and ask them to work at our Huashun company. The salary can be set at 100 RMB."

"Our Huashun company provides accommodation and various benefits that surpass those of other companies. We want to provide the R&D personnel of this memory project with a stable environment so that they don't have to worry about survival and can focus on research and development wholeheartedly."

After he finished speaking, Liu Deben raised a question, that is, is it appropriate to hand it over directly to an "outsider"?

In Liu Deben's view, employees recruited from outside are considered outsiders and have very low loyalty.

Therefore, it is indeed inappropriate to directly hand over such an important project as storage to an outsider.

Wang Duoyu heard this and shook his head and laughed.

"President, as long as they join our Harbin Institute of Technology, they are our own people. Besides, the establishment and completion of a new project takes at least half a year to a year. Such a long time is enough to see people clearly."

"And to be honest, I haven't been at Harbin Institute of Technology for long. Can I be untrustworthy? Betrayal requires cost consideration. If the price is too high, no one will betray."

Harbin Institute of Technology offers such high salary and benefits. If these people still betray, it means that the enemy offers even more.

At this time, we have to paint the pie in the sky.

Whether it is to enhance the sense of collective honor or to take other measures, the loyalty of these researchers must be ensured.

After discussing these, the meeting is almost over.

As for the investment in the memory project, this is not a problem at all. The initial investment is 15 million RMB to purchase equipment, plan the site, recruit personnel, etc., all of which cost money.

In the next few days, Harbin Institute of Technology made a series of big moves, which made Fang Lihe from the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building in Beijing itchy and ran to Bingcheng.

It had already snowed in the ice city in early November, and the outdoor temperature was very low.

Fang Lihe, who wrapped himself up like a dumpling, went straight to the Harbin Institute of Technology campus as soon as he arrived in the Ice City.

"Old Li, please take me to visit your CD storage device. I want to see if it's as magical as you said on the phone."

Fang Lihe was dumbfounded and felt itchy at the situation Li Rui reported on the phone.

The purpose of coming here today is to take a look at this so-called CD storage device.

Soon, Fang Lihe saw the so-called CD storage and was stunned for a moment.

For Fang Li and other leaders, computers are no longer unfamiliar advanced equipment. The prices of similar products and equipment from abroad are much higher.

Unexpectedly, Harbin Institute of Technology once again took the lead in the world and produced another world-leading product.

Harbin Institute of Technology's independent research and development capabilities are extraordinary!

Fang Lihe returned to Beijing with an ecstatic mood. In less than a week, Yan Peilin, director of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led a team including Zeng Maochao, Zhou Qiaozhen, Xia Peisu and others to Harbin Institute of Technology.

Feng Kang, director of the Computing Center, Xu Xianyu, director of the Computer Department of Peking University, and others also came to Harbin Institute of Technology for a visit.

It's just because the news of the CD-ROM storage has spread, and for units like theirs, 650MB of storage is really awesome.

The most advanced memory abroad is the IBM3380 developed by IBM, which has a storage capacity of 1GB and leads the world, but the minimum price is US$4.

Now it is a product independently developed in China with a storage capacity of 650MB. Since it is a product developed by ourselves, the price certainly cannot be so expensive, right?

While Yan Peilin and others were visiting, the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha also sent a team to visit.

Hu Shouqiu, Zhou Yukun, Shan Jiqian and others who are in charge of the Galaxy supercomputer formed a team. Under the leadership of Han Jue and others, they visited the optical disk storage project with Yan Peilin and others.

The entire Harbin Institute of Technology became very lively, just like the Chinese New Year.

Because in addition to these visiting representative teams, there are also a large number of recruited R&D personnel.

A salary of hundreds of dollars is extremely tempting.

In the initial stage of reform and opening up, the purchasing power of the RMB was still very strong. After all, our central bank only printed 5 billion RMB last year and this year.

So inflation and the like do not exist yet.

After next year, the amount of RMB in the domestic market will gradually increase, inflation will slowly appear, and the RMB exchange rate against the US dollar will continue to fall.

In the library of Harbin Institute of Technology, Wang Duoyu instructed Zhou Sitong and others to quickly install the CDs and other equipment, and then began to import various data.

Yan Peilin, who came to visit, curiously asked Wang Duoyu what the significance of doing this was.
Everyone knows that CD storage is a good thing, but Wang Duoyu directly uses it in the library, storing all the books on CDs and using computers to manage the books. What is the use of it?
"Director Yan, this is just a small attempt on our part."

Wang Duoyu said with a smile:
"Hasn't Harbin Institute of Technology already established its own mathematics journal? Over the past year, many students have written papers, and we've discovered that some have great difficulty finding information."

After these words were spoken, many professors present who had written papers nodded in agreement.

In this way, the data query system software designed by Wang Duoyu is still very advanced.

It is said to be advanced, but in fact it is not advanced at all, because there is no so-called search function.

If you want to look up information, you still need to check through the book names, etc. This is not the powerful search function of Baidu in later generations that can directly capture useful information.

After all, designing and programming such software puts a lot of pressure on the computer and places high demands on the system.

In the short term, Wang Duoyu doesn't have the time to do this.

We can only wait until Harbin Institute of Technology has trained enough software programming talents before we can gradually allocate more people to solve these problems.

Even so, visitors like Yan Peilin were still very surprised after hearing it.

Unknowingly, Harbin Institute of Technology has actually been ahead of many domestic scientific research institutions. No wonder they have been able to successively develop world-leading products such as Diao brand batteries, electric bicycles, and optical disk storage devices.

(End of this chapter)