America 1982

"Hey, Tommy, there are four important functions you marked that cannot be implemented on SSD-2 for the time being. Everyone needs to complete their own homework. It is estimated that it will take two or three weeks before I can spare the time to help you get it done. But this software It has been well received by the assholes in the conference. A few small innovations such as automatic segmentation, text search, footer marking, etc. have turned the originally indispensable WordStar into shit in their mouths, and Congratulations..." Eric spoke loudly as he walked into Tommy and Jason's dormitory, and then saw Jason sitting hurriedly in front of the computer dealing with two girls:

"No one told me that you two now live in a mixed dormitory."

"Ladies, I promise to solve your troubles tonight, even if you don't sleep. One by one, my body can handle it. First lady, what is your problem?" Jason didn't care. I greeted Eric and asked the first girl.

The girl pushed up her glasses: "The cursor control key, I hope it can be a combination of letter key sequence and Ctrol key. This software chooses to use a four-key diamond combination of 8, 2, 4, 6 to control the up, down, left and right of the cursor, which makes WordStar already Users who have developed dependence and muscle memory are very unaccustomed. I always subconsciously follow the key positions that I have memorized before and mistakenly operate them, so I hope to change them to the same shortcut keys as WordStar."

"The purpose of developing this software is to make controlling the cursor no longer as complicated as WordStar. You need to remember sixteen key combinations to move the cursor. To use WordStar to move the cursor, you need to first press Ctrl+Q to enter the move cursor command. status, and then press Ctrl + other messy keys to complete it, right? It's very simple now. You just need to remember these four numbers and add Ctrl. No pre-commands are needed, and the operation can be done immediately." Jason exclaimed After taking a breath, he looked through the notebook left by Tommy and introduced the girl:

"We are pushing forward the progress of science and technology, but madam, you suggest that we go backwards, so I'm sorry, we will not listen to your valuable opinions. Second lady, what is your problem?"

The second girl gave another feedback. She found it very convenient when writing using the document function of SSD-2. The only drawback was that she needed to re-record some operation methods, so she suggested that she could add a call command to combine a few simple And the format code is different from WordStar. The key combinations are directly displayed on the screen. This makes it easier to write without having to read the operation guide issued by Tommy. You can call up the command and continue working at a glance. At the same time, it will not increase the size of the software. .

"OK, thank you for your valuable advice. Could you please give your name? If we complete the update, we will send you the latest beta version as soon as possible." Jason carefully recorded the other party's opinions, and then followed Tommy's previous instructions. The scum look said to the girl.

"Jessica Perls, social science major." After the girl finished speaking, she and her companions left the E-66 dormitory.

After Jason recorded the other party's name, he turned on the computer and followed the girl's instructions. Then he looked at Eric: "Boss, are you coming to visit in prison?"

After the girl left, Eric closed the door, took out a cigarette and lit it, and asked Jason: "Where is that Tommy guy? I thought this thing was only used for small testing inside the SSD."

"I don't know, maybe he went to some other dormitory to help people install software. In addition to attending classes, part-time jobs, and doing homework, he spent the rest of the time trying to find ways to get his classmates to help him try out this SSD-2, and then give him feedback, you What do you want to congratulate him for? He is finally going to design this week's party. I suggest not to do that because he will definitely be perfunctory." Jason stood up and took out two bottles of Coke from the refrigerator and handed one to Eric, as if he was meeting someone. When he reached someone who could complain, he kept talking:

"Ever since that guy was busy working on software, there hasn't been any alcoholic beverages in the refrigerator for a long time. If anyone in Stanford's freshman class can get the 3S title when they graduate, it must be Tommy, an idiot. It's too stressful to be a roommate with such a person. , watching the other person work hard while you are lazy, it is easy to feel guilty about wasting your time. Let’s put it this way, self-study computer-related courses have left me without time to read magazines for two weeks. If not every weekend, I can go back to the SSD to attend parties. While chatting with the girls, I would have already jumped off the rooftop.”

Eric took the Coke: "No, I want to congratulate him. The night before yesterday, when Charles and I went out to drink with several SSD alumni who were working in Silicon Valley software companies, we talked about Tommy and you rookies. I heard that the software developed by Tommy was very practical. An alumnus wanted to meet Tommy to see if it was possible to trick his boss into buying it and let Tommy make a fortune. Charles and I were very happy, which meant that Tommy This bastard can earn at least hundreds of thousands, and we will make him bleed out to celebrate, but in the end Tommy has to make his own decision on this matter, so I came to see him."

"What did I just say?" Jason was stunned for a moment after hearing Eric's intention, and then asked Eric.

Eric shook his head slightly: "You said being a roommate with Tommy was too stressful, and you were ready to jump off the rooftop."

"That guy will soon have hundreds of thousands. As a roommate, my biggest pressure now is how to spend that money for him!" Jason stared at Eric and asked loudly: "But are you sure that a copycat model will be used?" There are idiots who are prepared to spend hundreds of thousands to buy this software? Hundreds of thousands?"

"This kind of thing is very common. Last month, there was an idiot in DTS next door. He developed a small software that can add text to pictures. It sold for 200,000 yuan. From development to sale, it only took less than two days. Zhou, and the guy's original intention of developing that software was just to write "You are a bitch" on the photo of his cheating girlfriend, and then post it all over the school. If he wrote it by hand, he was worried that the police would pass it. Handwriting comparison identified him, so he chose to print it in computer fonts so that the police could not trace it." Eric said to the excited Jason:

"Every time we met him when we went to a bar to drink, we could hear him congratulating himself on how his ex-girlfriend was a bitch, allowing him to make two hundred thousand dollars and then find a more beautiful girlfriend."

After Jason heard this, he said enviously: "I'm very happy for him."

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"Tommy!" Eric stared, looking at Tommy Hawke who was sitting in front of the computer looking through various feedback information, with an angry tone:

"You can fucking ask the other party whether to invest instead of buying the copyright, but you can't... you can't tell him that your next idea is to put the advertisement in "Happy Hunters", "Children and Parents", In the back cover advertisement space of "Cosmopolitan"! Who uses a computer would buy this kind of garbage magazine! I won't be angry if you publish it in "Playboy", at least its interview is very in-depth, "Happy Seeker" ! F*ck! You treat the SSD-2 you made as a bitch! Everyone worked hard to help you make this, and you don’t respect it! You don’t respect everyone, and you don’t respect the brothers who supported us after graduation! You You can say no and say you’re not ready to sell it now, and I’ll understand and support you, but you can’t treat me like an idiot!”

Jason carefully observed the situation, and thoughtfully piled baseball bats, boxing gloves and other things near the two of them for easy access. After he finished all this, he sat back silently holding a bag of potato chips. On the bed, waiting for the two sides to officially start fighting.

Eric is recognized by rookies as a good guy and rarely loses his temper. The reason for his anger is that when he happily introduced to Tommy that there was an SSD alumni who wanted to learn about Tommy's software, and by the way, he tricked his boss into paying for it. When he came down and asked Tommy to make a fortune, Tommy hoped that the other party could deceive the boss into investing. Eric asked Tommy about his idea, and Tommy actually told him that he should put advertisements in those useless magazines. This is The reason for Eric's anger was that he felt that Tommy had been joking around and didn't respect him at all and didn't believe what he said.

"Happy Seeker" is the most popular sex trade magazine in California. The largest customer group is sex customers and call girls. The sex customers buy the magazine to understand the market and make horizontal comparisons. The call girls who are ready to go to the sea are looking for it. Recruitment information from entertainment companies, or simply buy your own advertising space to advertise for clients.

The latter two are old-fashioned cheap family women's magazines in the United States. Since the Great Depression, they have been the main source of information and life skills for middle- and lower-class women. They will tell women what foods are cheap but make them hungry, so as not to make the family at home hungry. The children are hungry, what kind of part-time job is suitable for them to earn some pocket money, how to take care of multiple children, how to buy cheap clothes, how housewives can save money, and other articles. As for the advertisements, they are all kinds of discounted and cheap goods.

But now, Tommy Hawke told him that he was going to put software advertisements in these magazines. Isn't this a joke?

Tommy stood up, took out a cigarette and handed one to Eric, speaking softly: "Would you like to hear me out? Eric? I can give you a reasonable explanation."

"It's best this way." After Eric finished cursing, he took the cigarette handed by Tommy and lit it, then sat on Tommy's chair, ready to listen to Tommy's explanation.

Tommy leaned on the end of the bed and looked at Eric: "First of all, I don't want to sell the copyright to just make a fortune, or even if I want to sell it, I have to go through a lot of trouble first. I can't just sell it for hundreds of thousands and then turn it over. Several times or dozens of times, maybe I will consider that if we want to sell it at a high price, we need data. When those people want to buy it, they will ask you how your software sales are, how your income is, etc. According to the market situation in Silicon Valley this year, as long as this If we sell 10,000 copies of this software, we can get a purchase price of at least 3.5 million. How to choose between 100,000 and 1.5 million? Of course it is the latter."

"Unless you take a leave of absence to start a company now, you won't have time to sell it." Eric exhaled a puff of smoke and said to Tommy: "So, you are going to take a leave of absence?"

Tommy took a cigarette and lit it in his mouth, took a deep breath, and then said to Eric:

"No, the current plan is to ask students to conduct a test to reduce the difficulty of the operation to a minimum. At the same time, I asked Holly Keener from the Blonde Club, the blond girl on the freshman night. She is studying social engineering and is in the School of Engineering. I am working part-time at the Entrepreneurship Education and Research Center in the city. She is helping me take the software there so that the teachers and guest lecturers there can try it out. If the feedback is good and they are interested in supporting the project, I can get about 50,000 yuan. I wanted entrepreneurial support, and then found an active feminist charity organization at Stanford University. The Golden Hair Society is very familiar with those organizations. I have asked Renee to help me understand the situation. If possible, cooperate with them to open a training company with a charity nature. I used entrepreneurial funds to purchase a batch of the cheapest computers and they invested in management shares. In this way, the daily management of the company will be taken turns by students from public welfare organizations. As a co-founder, I don’t need to waste too much time on it, anyway. There’s nothing to manage, you can continue studying normally.”

"The superficial purpose of the training company is to encourage women to get out of the family and find equal job opportunities. But on a deeper level, it is to pay less tax. There will be no charge for the training, but women need to purchase the software. The price is low, 49.99, which is almost 10% of WordStar. One, the lowest-level call girl can earn enough money from one customer to afford it, and I plan to purchase fifty of the cheapest compatible computers, priced at six hundred yuan, which is a principal of thirty thousand yuan to support training. Plan, this means that we can already make a profit after selling a thousand copies. After the training, the charity organization can also recommend jobs to those women. Everyone has benefited. I get some money, the charity organization has gained reputation, and the women have gained The jobs were gained and the software was sold.”

"You use a group of lower-class women to attack the current white-collar clerks? Make those clerkships as cheap as waiting in a fast food restaurant? When the capitalists see that even prostitutes know how to operate computers, what will happen to those white-collar clerks who earn nearly 300 per week? It quickly became less than two hundred dollars,” Eric said.

"It's hard to get investment from smart people, Eric, but it's easy for poor people to make money. The poorer they are, the more eager they are to find opportunities to change their destiny. And if they want to make money, they need to steal the jobs of white-collar workers. I I'm just helping the proletarian ladies, providing them with weapons, giving them the confidence to steal the property owners' money, and lowering the price at the same time." Tommy nodded, not denying this:

"If those clerks want to maintain their elite status, it's best to learn new skills. California may not have 50,000 billionaires, but there are definitely several times that number of housewives or call girls. For fifty dollars, you can have one Opportunity, so that I can find a decent job, no longer have to be called a waste by my husband, no longer have to sell my body, there will be people who are willing, and not all poor people are willing to sink forever."

Eric thought for a moment and suddenly thought of a question: "What if those women can't find a job? I mean, although it sounds like the white-collar industry will quickly become worthless, what if they can't find it?"

Tommy said matter-of-factly: "Of course I can go back and continue to be a housewife or a call girl. Before becoming a capitalist or a politician, don't rush to think about social responsibility. Eric, what we want is to be able to sell this thing." High prices or sales figures that attract large investments, rather than really devoting ourselves to helping women in California solve their employment problems."

The second update of 4,000 words~