American Legendary Life

Clang.

Li Zitao knocked on the door of the room, the footsteps gradually approached, but the tension in his heart relaxed.

Although the people who are about to meet have created a giant industry with a future of less than a century, they firmly control the cutting-edge technology of the industry.

But in terms of his achievements today, it seems that it is the other person who needs to look up, not him.

The door opened.

The first thing to introduce into the eyes is gray hair, and the face is well maintained. It does not have the feeling of wrinkles after the skin is loose and collapsed, but it is full and rosy.

"Charlie Lee." Thomas J. Watson standing in the room said with a smile.

"Thomas J. Watson." Li Zitao stretched out his hands and smiled: "The way you meet is impressive."

"I just hate trouble. There are many people staring at IBM." Watson invited him in. The spacious room was playing music.

"How about some whiskey?" Watson asked, raising the gramophone's magnetic needle and walking to the wine cabinet to take out a bottle of unbranded wine.

"No problem." Letting the body fall into the sofa to relax, Li Zitao tilted his legs to make a relaxed expression.

"Taste it, this is my own brew." Watson placed the glass in front of him, sitting in the opposite position and tasting the whiskey in his hand.

Li Zitao was not in a hurry. He looked around and looked indifferently. After seeing the refrigerator next to it, he thought of going to the door and finding the ice cubes in the glass.

"The water after the ice cube melts will destroy its purest taste, and the taste will be affected." Watson said, but said to add ice cubes.

"Compared with the original taste, I like to choose what I like. After all, only I like it is the best, are you right?"

Li Zitao took a big sip, put down the glass and pointedly pointed out.

"It seems that we are the same kind of person, Charlie... I heard you are very interested in IBM?" Watson leaned back and said, "Tell me, what changes can you bring to it?"

"Funding, IBM is not lacking for the time being, the network, IBM seems to be enough, knowledge... sorry I don't seem to understand."

Li Zitao seemed to be self-denying, saying a sudden pause: "How about creativity? Let IBM create an innovative concept of the era."

IBM is not short of money or talents. Product innovation and quality are the key to IBM's success and the reason for its achievements.

But when it comes to creativity, who is more powerful than his "back" from the 21st century?

"Tell me about it." Watson looked at him with suspicion, creative, is it a puncher?

"It's worthless to say it." Li Zitao shook his head.

Watson looked hesitantly for a moment and then looked up; "If your creativity can impress me, I can agree to whatever you want."

"Good." Watson's refreshment was unexpected, and he took the pen out of his pocket, and Danny had brought the paper on the table.

"Watson, have you heard of the analysis machine?" Li Zitao asked while writing on the paper without looking up.

"You mean Charles Babbage, the machine made by the British mathematician and inventor? I remember it was called a difference machine, not an analysis machine,

IBM's existing computing puncher is better than it, smaller in size, and simpler in calculation. If you are talking about this, I don't think it needs any more."

The disappointment and contempt in Watson's eyes gradually disappeared, and his eyes have been attracted by the mechanical instruments painted by Li Zitao on the paper.

"What's this?" Looking at the box above the paper, and looking at the whole of the dense pipeline above it, I was inexplicably excited.

He has a hunch that this is the future of IBM. Although this feeling is strange, now Watson has put all his attention in the pattern on the paper.

"I call it an electronic computer, its basic principle comes from the analysis machine, it is an enhanced version of the differential machine you called, and its maker is also Babbage

If you want to know more clearly, you can visit the Royal College Museum in London. Babbage put the failed prototype of the machine there for people to visit.

Now let's talk about this electronic computer, which is equivalent to its gears, which is also a storage. In the original machine, each gear can store 10 numbers,

Here is the relay, now it is replaced by the electronic tube, here... record the information on the punching card and encode it, and then connect the punching cards in a string,

Write a fixed calculation method, then whether it can form an instruction and let it automatically perform arithmetic operations,

If you can let it have the function of logical calculation and data storage, think about it, Watson, what will IBM get? "

Enticed by Li Zitao, Watson instinctively murmured: "The future..."

"That's right, it's the future." Li Zitao beat the table excitedly, causing Watson, who was lost in thought, to recover.

Looking at the young man with a complex face, Watson couldn't understand him.

"IBM’s punching machine is excellent, but it cannot perform more complex calculations. According to the needs of artillery beams and large laboratories, using the punching machine to complete the work requires at least one or two hundred people to cooperate, which takes 40 days. Time to complete,

And it only takes a day ~www.readwn.com~ to get the correct value. "

Li Zitao was actually guilty when he said this, because he is completely fooling right now, relying on the memory and graphics of the first generation of electronic computers in his mind.

"How can it be done? Moreover, you also said that such a complicated calculation method is only needed by professional laboratories and the military."

Watson rubbed the corners of his eyes to calm himself down, but he opened his squinted eyes from time to time, and used Yu Guang to peek at the drawings on the table. He couldn't hide Li Zitao.

"This is a problem for scientists. If it has been researched, IBM may be bankrupt." Li Zitao's words made Watson's pupils shrink.

Realizing that the other party was frightened by himself, Li Zitao secretly laughed secretly; ‘If Watson knows how huge this thing is and how expensive it is to make one, now he may have gotten up and left. ’

Behemoths like the first-generation electronic computers are simply impossible to popularize manufacturing, and their role is only to assist large laboratories and the military to perform accurate and fast calculations.

But just as its birth was inspired by the ‘analyzer’, the electronic computer of the future was born through research and optimization based on its principles.

From the ‘adder in the 16th century’ to the ‘punch machine’ in the 19th century, and then the ‘differential machine’. ’

Then came the more powerful ‘analysis machine’. The concept of this machine is the basis of the concept of the future computer. There is only a slight difference between the two, which is very similar.

It was this small step, a small step forward, that eventually gave birth to electronic computers, until the popularity of computers and the advent of the Internet era.

If there is no such small step, a small step of progress, perhaps in the 21st century, human beings are still complacent about being in the steam age.