Rebirth in America

The sales of "Carpenter" radios are very good. As they license the production of this radio to other manufacturers, the production capacity of radios can gradually meet the market demand.

Their radios have begun to leave the United States and are sold overseas. People all over the world know that there is such a transistor radio, which is small and convenient, and has very good performance.

The electronics company brought a lot of income to the Carpenters, and at one time even exceeded the income of the record company. However, the money earned was quickly invested in research and development by Bart.

Now they have developed televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. based on transistors and integrated circuit boards. More importantly, under Alex's suggestion, they have developed the first transistor computer!

Researchers at CPT were ahead of Bell Labs. In fact, before that, Dr. Shockley and others had thought about building a transistor computer. It's just that they have never figured out how to make diodes. After Alex solved this critical problem, they invested most of their manpower and material resources into the research and development of new diodes.

As for Bart, when they first started, they didn't think about making a transistor computer.

But Alex made so many things just to do this, how could he allow Bart and the others to do other things. Originally, he could have given Shockley the design drawings of the transistor computer and integrated circuit board, but he didn't want the money to flow to others, and he didn't want to explain too much to Shockley and others.

"Bart, the future world is a computer world, and we can't lag behind others!" Alex vigorously promoted his idea to Bart. He had to build a computer.

"But we people don't know anything about computers. No one can do what you're talking about." Bart's idea is that for things you don't understand, don't do it until the time is right. Not too late.

After listening to Bart's words, Alex realized that the biggest problem they were facing now was that there was not yet a transistor computer in the world. Even the transistor was only recently manufactured. As for the diodes that computers need to use, they were only a few days old. For new things, people always have to go through a familiarization process.

It is simply a fantasy for someone who is not familiar with transistors to design a transistor computer.

"You don't have to worry about this problem. I'll provide you with a transistor computer solution." Alex took over everything and planned to copy it to the end.

"You?" Bart was a little unbelievable. He didn't think Alex could do anything. Alex is smart enough, but no matter how smart a person is, he can't figure out things that many scientists can't figure out.

This idea is very correct for general situations. The only exception is Alex. He is a strong science student in China, but his practical ability may not be strong enough. He has learned a lot of miscellaneous theoretical knowledge.

Besides, he is still using the puppet Dr. Shockley. With his rich experience and proficient skills, and the knowledge of later generations, he can quickly build a transistor computer.

A long time ago, Alex saw a post on the forum.

That post teaches people how to make a computer by themselves. The most critical part is the homemade CPU. That CPU is made using TTL integrated circuits, which is extremely simple.

Anyone who has studied digital logic and digital circuits must know that a CPU can be realized by using TTL gate circuits. When Alex was in college, he saw his classmates doing similar things, but they didn't have such complete functions.

This post is a reprint of the project log of an enthusiastic foreign technology geek. It is very detailed. It even includes the detailed process of writing an i program in C language and compiling it into a computer assembly program. Unfortunately, Alex is a programming idiot, and the Shockley doll doesn't understand programming, so he can't restore this part.

So Alex insisted on researching transistor computers, but in order to deceive others, he still asked Bart to develop other transistor products.

He requested that his role not be revealed. His ultimate goal is to study transistor computers. With the integrated circuit board and the drawings provided by Alex, this is not a problem at all for the R\u0026D department personnel led by Bart.

The biggest skill of these R\u0026D personnel is their super hands-on ability. If you ask them to design a new thing, it may be a little difficult, but if you ask them to manufacture an electronic product according to the drawings, it takes a matter of minutes.

This is a fully functional CPU that can support complete hardware address translation, memory mapped IO and DMA, and supports multiple processes with a main frequency of up to 3MHz. An 8-bit address bus is also used, and each process has a 128K address space, including 32 2K data pages and 32 2K code pages.

This transistor computer was named "First Generation", which means that it was the first transistor computer.

The "first generation" computers were quickly built and passed rigorous testing with basically no major problems.

When Carpenter Electronics announced to the world that they had developed the world's first transistor computer, the scientific community was shocked by the news. They all asked where Carpenter Electronics came from and why they had never heard of the company's name before.

The U.S. military was also attracted by their transistor computer and immediately sent a team of experts and troops. Experts are here to verify the performance of this computer, and the military is here to protect the high technology of American companies from being stolen by Soviet agents.

At this time, McCarthyism was very rampant, and communist ideas were spreading everywhere. The Soviet Union was the number one enemy of the United States, and they had to take precautions.

Tube computers use a "fixed-point arithmetic system", and the absolute value involved in the operation must be less than 1. The transistor computer adds floating point operations on this basis, so that the absolute value of the data can reach dozens or hundreds of powers of 2, which makes the computer's computing power achieve a leap.

"It's really incredible! It's incredible! Its running speed is more than 10 times that of the most advanced computers at present, or even higher!"

The experts gathered around the transistor computer and let out bursts of exclamation!

They really didn't expect that there were computers with such good performance and such stable operation in the world. In their view, this transistor computer has the advantages of small size, light weight, long life, high efficiency, low heat generation, and low power consumption. It can not only cope with various high-tech research and development purposes, but can also be applied to enterprises.

The results of this test were astonishing, causing many computer scientists to exclaim: "We have entered the era of transistor computers!"

A large number of orders came in, especially when the U.S. military allocated a huge sum of money to Carpenter Electronics to develop a more advanced and practical computer based on the needs of the National Defense Forces.

Faced with the huge amount of money coming in like a tide, Bart was dumbfounded. He never expected that such an inconspicuous computer would actually bring such high profits to the company.

"Sure enough, it is the easiest to make money from the national government!" he thought in his mind.

But he was a little worried because this computer was built based on the plan provided by Alex. If you want to develop a new computer, it means that you must have excellent talents in this field. It was impossible for Alex to participate in the research and development work. He knew that he did not have the people on hand to do this.

Bart threw this annoying problem to Alex and wanted to ask him how to solve it. Soon, Alex came up with a solution, which was to reorganize the R\u0026D team and recruit people from universities.

Alex asked Bart to go to the University of Minnesota to find a master's student named Seymour Clay. He knew that this guy with the title of "Jungle Hermit" was no small matter. With Seymour Clay leading CPT's computer research and development work, Alex doesn't have to worry about anything anymore. This guy is more suitable than anyone else.

Alex told Bart that when he was interacting with those university professors, he discovered that this student had extraordinary computer skills, and he was convinced that Seymour Clay could do what Bart asked for.

Bart didn't know why, so he went to find this master's student and strongly invited him to CPT Company to take charge of computer research and development work.

Seymour just graduated from school with a master's degree in mathematics. When he was not sure what to do, his tutor suggested to Seymour: "If I were you, I would walk down this street and go all the way to the Engineering Research Association (ERA). I ​​think you will definitely like what they are doing." Research."

At this time, the Engineering Research Association was studying computer design work. When he was about to join ERA, UU read www.uukanshu. net CPT Company came over and invited him to lead the research and development of the world's most advanced transistor computer.

This surprised him greatly. When he heard that someone recommended it to the company boss, he thought it was the kindness of the teacher or friend. So he followed over, and as soon as he saw it, he was amazed by the transistor computer designed by Alex and was completely fascinated.

With Seymour joining, Bart can completely put aside the computer department and let the other party arrange the research and development work.

This was Alex's original request. He said: "Leave the work to knowledgeable people and don't get involved yourself."

Having said that, Alex is still worried that Seymour, who has just graduated, is immature, and he plans to communicate with him directly. This time Alex chose letters to communicate. He asked Bart to give the letter he wrote to Seymour, and asked not to reveal his identity.

In this way, the two began academic exchanges that lasted for nearly a year. Alex's various novel ideas amazed Seymour and stimulated him to develop faster computers. At this time, IBM also quietly began to develop transistor computers. They made a big move and invested tens of millions of dollars in it.

It wasn't until a year later that Seymour found out that the person who wrote to him was Alex. At that time, he was really shocked. He does not deny that geniuses exist in this world, but when a genius actually appears in front of him, the feeling is really difficult to describe.

While Alex and Bart were busy forming a computer research and development team, their movie "Little Fugitive" was finally released.