American Entertainment 1982

  Chapter 87

  SSD's fraternity house, at this time in the big conference room, all the members except the rookie were present, staring at the screen on the TV.

   That was the scene of recording the rookies at the party last night. Chairman Charles asked, "Tell me the name of the first rookie that impressed you."

  Eric smiled and said, "Tommy Hawk, that guy stole the show at the party last night."

   "Jason White!" Another voice rang out, saying a different name, and to Eric's surprise, most of the people present nodded, agreeing that Jason White was more impressive.

Eric pointed to the TV with some puzzlement, and it was playing a picture of Tommy Hawk performing a little trick to a group of girls, making the girls smile: "That guy was with two BDPs before twelve o'clock. The girls left together and were clearly the best newcomers of the night."

"You can't just watch the video. In fact, Jason White's maggot impresses me even more." The house manager looked at Eric at this time, and said firmly: "I bet that guy will pass our test successfully, Be our brother."

   "What did he do?" Eric asked the other.

The house manager told Eric what he had seen and heard: "That guy took a few drunk rookies, ran outside the gate of the Order of the Phoenix, peed on them, and the other party rushed up and punched him , failed to make him stop urinating, instead he urinated all over his body, under his leadership, a few rookies all used the Order of the Phoenix as a toilet, this kind of leadership and expressiveness makes it hard for people to ignore him."

   "Nice job!" Eric said with conviction after listening.

  Charles wrote Jason White's name with a signature pen on the whiteboard next to him, and then continued to ask: "The second name."

  Most of the old birds said the name of Tommy Hawk this time. A rookie can take away two girls at the first party, which has surpassed the performance of these old birds when they were newcomers.

  Charles wrote Tommy Hawke and continued to ask: "The third..."

Just asking again and again, when no one spoke out the name of the rookie who remembered it, nine names were left on the blackboard. Charles looked at the nine names on the whiteboard, then turned around, looked at more than thirty brothers, Opened his mouth and said:

   "Let's go get ready, confirm their closing time, and then bring these nine maggots here. SSD's **** assessment begins."

   "Yeah!" A group of people cheered loudly and got up and rushed out of the meeting room.

  …

In the library, after Tommy Hawk skillfully completed the borrowing record with Apple2 on the workbench, he turned on his own Osborne1, ran the installed SuperCalc spreadsheet software, and placed a stopwatch on the desktop at the same time. After turning on the timer, he quickly Start doing the same entry work as recorded.

Maya Gibbons was inspecting the bookshelves to check the age of the books. Hearing the loud knocking sound of the keyboard on the other side of the workbench, she walked over and found that Tommy was using the portable computer she brought to enter the form. She was a little curious. asked, "Tommy, what are you doing?"

   "It's nothing, use another system's spreadsheet software to do the same job, and see which software is more efficient." Tommy stared at the screen of the Osborne1 portable computer, and responded to Maya with his mouth.

  Maya walked to Tommy's side, looking at the ever-changing tables and numbers on the small screen: "What's the point of doing this?"

"Testing, in addition to SuperCalc, there are several form software such as Lotus1-2-3, CalcStar, etc. At present, the most efficient is Lotus1-2-3 on the IBM desktop computer. The same work takes the slowest time, but the premise It is necessary to remember its cumbersome operation key combination, followed by Microsoft’s Multiplan, which is slightly less difficult to operate than the former, but the version update is too fast, and every time it is like restarting, the user needs to re-record the way the software is used. The slowest one is VisiCalc on Apple2, which is the computer in the library." After Tommy finished the same amount of work, he pressed the stop button of the stopwatch, and then said to Teacher Maya.

Maya Gibbons was a little surprised when she heard Tommy's words. She had always thought that this boy came to the library for a temporary part-time job. She would leave here as soon as she found another better part-time job. She didn't expect him to come here on time every day. Working, and quiet and friendly, most of the time I read computer-related books in my seat.

"What's the purpose? To help computer magazines write some software testing articles to earn manuscript fees?" Maya stroked Tommy's portable computer lightly with her hand, and asked with a smile, but after asking, she felt that the other party was not very good. It is possible to earn manuscript fees, because the price of the computer in front of her is 1795 yuan, and there are still a small number of students in the whole school who own personal computers, but she heard before that Tommy bought five different personal computers in one go.

Tommy picked up the water glass and took a sip of water, stared at the computer, and said to Maya: "No, it's my personal test of these softwares. I always have to find something to do when the teacher assigns homework. I'm currently working on Study how to make the small program you write compatible with opening Lotus1-2-3 spreadsheet documents."

   "You don't look like those students who are passionate about software development." Maya said with a smile when she heard Tommy's words.

  Tommy said frankly to Maya: "I'm not really keen on software development. I just think that these software can be more convenient, so I copied them and optimized them, but the workload is relatively large, and a lot of work is still in the brain conception stage."

   "Sounds good, come on." Maya praised Tommy, and then left the workbench.

  Seeing that it was almost time for me to get off work, the girl who replaced me had already rushed over. Tommy put away his computer, made the last cup of coffee, opened a magazine, and prepared to spend the last five minutes of this part-time job.

At this time, two white men dressed as ninjas walked in quickly outside the library. The girl who replaced Tommy at the workbench watched the two ninjas walking towards her in surprise, thinking that she was going to kidnap her. Just when she was about to exclaim, the two One of the ninjas made a shh gesture at her, and walked over to Tommy, who was sipping his coffee and reading a magazine next to her.

   "Friend~" a ninja said to Tommy.

Tommy raised his head subconsciously, and a knitted hat was put directly on Tommy's head, covering his eyes, and then the two skillfully sealed his mouth with tape, and one of the strong ninjas lifted Tommy up, quickly Stepping out of the library, one of the ninjas ran back, picked up Tommy's computer, and smiled apologetically at the girl:

   "Sorry, forgot to take his computer."

  Sneaky and sneaky evacuated quickly, taking no more than 30 seconds before and after.

   "What happened?" Maya saw the girl looking at the main entrance of the library, came over and asked.

  The girl withdrew her gaze and looked at Maya: "There are two ninjas who kidnapped Tommy, should we call the police?"

   "Didn't you apply to join a sorority or something?" After listening to the girl's description, Maya asked with a smile.

  The girl shook her head: "No."

   "Then you will miss a lot of happy experiences." Maya smiled at the girl: "This is the newcomer assessment period for fraternities or sororities. There is no need to call the police. We just need to wish Tommy good luck."

  (end of this chapter)