Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 545 Sunday Engineer
In the 80s and 90s, there was a very interesting social phenomenon in Shanghai. At that time, there was only Sunday off every week, but on Saturday evening, at the long-distance bus station, train station or ship wharf, you can often see some obvious features waiting Crowd getting on the bus.

These people are generally 30 to 60 years old, wearing washed, some whitish blue khaki tunic suits, and neatly buttoned in the wind season, carrying artificial leather bags. Saw them coming back.

However, on Monday, they returned to work in colleges and universities, research institutes and state-owned enterprises. On Sundays, they all went to the suburbs or the Yangtze River Delta counties and cities to work part-time.

These people have a tacit secret, but before that era, especially for them, the talents of state-owned enterprises and colleges and universities who researched important technologies could not easily leave the system.

Back then, these people became engineers this Sunday in order to earn extra money to subsidize their families, but they saved a large number of small and medium-sized township enterprises and private enterprises.

In many private enterprises of considerable size in later generations, the first barrel of gold was also related to these Sunday engineers. Without the support of professional and technical personnel from state-owned enterprises in these colleges and universities, a large number of private enterprises would not survive at all. possibility of development.

Daxing City, where Duan Yun is located, is far away from big cities like Shanghai BJ where high-tech talents are concentrated, but he does not need highly skilled talents. Purely from the perspective of electronic technology, Duan Yun is personally ahead of this era , the talents he needs are only talents who can help him build factories and train workers.

At present, there are two electronics factories in Daxing City, Daxing Electronics Factory No. 600 and Daxing Electronics Factory No. [-]. The scale of these two factories is not large, and the total number of employees is less than [-]. They mainly produce electronic components. Before Duan Yun A large part of the original antennas produced are cheap second-hand products from the No. [-] Daxing Electronics Factory.

Although it is said to be a substandard product, in fact, most of the electronic components can be used after screening. Because of the quality problems of electronic components, it is rare to need to repair them. So far, only four speakers have been produced. question.

Duan Yun purchased these electronic components through Li Caitou, who is a regular worker in the second factory of Daxing Electronics. Although he is just an ordinary worker, his uncle is the deputy director of the factory. Only then can the inferior products be continuously shipped out from the factory and sold to Duan Yun.

So Duan Yun is going to contact Li Caitou next, invite him out for a meal, and ask about their second electronics factory.

To be able to train workers and run a factory independently, at least one must be a workshop director or the chief engineer of the factory.

The leading cadres of state-owned enterprises usually do not disclose the secrets of their factory's technology, and the regulations of state-owned enterprises do not allow them to work part-time outside.

But these are not problems. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under great rewards. As long as the price is high enough for Duan Yun, there will be no corners that Duan Yun can't dig.

As for the purchase of related equipment, Duan Yun is not in a hurry now. His plan is to wait until mid-October after attending the Canton Fair, and negotiate with the technicians from the electronics factory to make a list of equipment to purchase.

Duan Yun drove home after finishing the work in the workshop.

Taking advantage of the fact that the factory was not busy during this time, Duan Yun began to study the newly purchased computer at home.

This head computer does not have a windows interface, so it can only be done with the software in Dos.

Since there is no text editing software with a graphical interface, the computer's typesetting can be described as insane. All typesetting formats have to be entered with symbols, and it is quite laborious to use the edited preview.

Even for someone like Duan Yun who is proficient in computer programming technology, it takes a while to get used to this kind of computer.

The keyboard is a bit stiff. In his previous life, Duan Yun's keyboard used electrostatic capacitors, which felt very soft to the touch. However, the current IBM computer keyboard is very uncomfortable to use.

In addition, this computer currently has limited functions, mainly word processing and spreadsheet processing, as well as CAD and a small game of playing airplanes.

The CAD software of this era is still relatively primitive, and its functions are very limited.

In fact, in the 70s, when the cost of minicomputers dropped, the American industry began to widely use the cross-drawing system.

In the early 80s, due to the application of PCs, CAD software was able to develop rapidly, and companies specializing in CAD system development appeared.

At that time, versaCAD was a professional CAD company. The CAD software developed was powerful, but it was not widely used because of its high price.

At that time, Autodesk was a small company with only a few employees. Although the CAD system they developed had limited functions, it was widely used in society because it could be copied for free. In addition, this system is open, so if He is a master who is proficient in computer technology and can develop some functions by himself.

And what Duan Yun currently uses in his computer is the CAD software produced by Autodesk.

At present, the functions of this CAD software are too far behind compared with the future market, and many functions have not been developed yet. But for now, if Duan Yun wants to use this software to design car radios, there is still no problem.

What makes Duan Yun feel very uncomfortable is that this computer does not have a mouse!

The mouse is still a very rare thing these days. The early mice were all analog mice, which required an independent power supply, which was very inconvenient to use, and the response sensitivity and positioning accuracy were not ideal. willing to use it.

In fact, the popularity of the mouse in the world has only begun since the birth of the windows system in 1984, and before that, the cursor was moved through the keyboard.

Moving the cursor with the keyboard is acceptable for processing text systems, but it becomes very complicated for Duan Yun to process graphics systems such as CAD. All commands and coordinates need to be input and set in advance. , It was like a nightmare.

But in any case, computers still have huge advantages in data processing and design. Duan Yun only needs to be proficient in relevant instructions and skills to efficiently develop design drawings.

In addition, when Duan Yun talked with the sales assistant manager last time in Xiamen, he learned that there are actually software associations in China, and there is even a journal "Software". For software disks, there is a special software association in BJ. After paying a certain membership fee, the association will mail a journal to members through the post office every month, so that members can learn about the current development of computer software in China and The introduction of various newly developed software, by sending money to the designated place, you can also buy the software you want, this is something that Duan Yun did not think of before.

(End of this chapter)