Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 676: Making a Judgment

September 16th.

Hongkou Stadium.

Since its reconstruction in 775, the central building in the west area of ​​the venue has been built with reinforced concrete. In addition to the 80 open-air chair seats and press boxes at the rear, it also has an reception hall, a lounge for athletes, foreign guests and spectators. .

In a lounge in the southwest wing of the main building, six or seven technicians are busy at this time.

It has been exactly ten days since this lounge was vacated for them to use, but their preparations have not actually been carried out for ten days.

Time waits for no one. The day after tomorrow is the opening day of the Fifth National Games. Important foreign guests will arrive in Shanghai tomorrow. All work must be completed today.

Fortunately, after working overtime day and night for the past few days, the construction of communication equipment or information fields, as well as the construction of paging stations, have been completed. Now only the final debugging and trial operation are left.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a knock on the closed red-painted wooden door.

Che Wenlin, a Korean girl from Ding Lun's team, ran over and opened the door with her short legs. "Boss."

Li Jiankun walked in with his Fugui brothers. In a small room of only about thirty square meters, at two symmetrical corners on the inside, two Shanghai brand industrial floor fans were blowing coolness. Even so, the technicians were still satisfied. Head sweating profusely.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Li Jiankun scanned the room:

Along one side of the wall, there is a countertop made of long log-colored tables. On it are three Laser100 personal computers of the local brand "VTech" placed in an orderly manner. There are also some other smaller ones next to it. Electronic devices, like computers, are connected by thick or thin wire harnesses.

Slightly messy.

Time is too short, and Li Jiankun cannot make harsh demands. After all, this is just a temporary paging station and will not be used for more than half a month.

This National Games will open on September 18th and end on National Day.

Li Jiankun looked at Ding Lun with questioning eyes. The latter looked tired, but his eyes were extremely bright, and he said with a little excitement: "You can run it for a test."

Li Jiankun took a walkie-talkie from Zhang Fu and handed it to him, asking: "Where is the equipment?"

Ding Lun pointed to a corrugated cardboard box the size of a shoe box on the ground beside the wall. Zhang Gui walked forward and hugged him.

Li Jiankun waved to the side and said, "Wen Lin, come with me."

"Okay boss."

The four people left the temporary computer room and walked along the empty corridor to the east wing of the main building. The sound of footsteps echoed clearly in their ears.

As of yesterday, the rehearsals for the National Games have officially ended. These two days are time for the staff to rest, so the stadium seemed particularly quiet today.

However, some staff only have one day off today.

The four of them, Li Jiankun, came to an open hall in the east wing. Inside, there were more than a dozen staff members, both men and women, who had been waiting for a long time. They were sitting in a dignified manner on the red lacquered wood art placed along the wall. On the single sofa chair, don't be impatient.

In fact, these are indeed highly educated intellectual elites, temporarily seconded from major institutions of higher learning across the country, and most of them are foreign language teachers.

Their job content is to receive the important foreign guests who are visiting China around the clock.

Here are just a few. He is a person temporarily selected by the organizing committee from each foreign guest reception group.

Li Jiankun glanced over from left to right and saw a total of eighteen people. The number was correct. Although the number of BB machines they ultimately served for the National Games was not as good as that of the Post and Telecommunications - there were thirty at the Post and Telecommunications side - he had nothing to complain about. It was not easy to get this opportunity in such a hurry.

In fact, this arrangement overlaps with the use of BB machines by post and telecommunications.

The foreign guest reception group where these staff members belong now has at least one "Shanghai Starlight" pager.

The word "Starlight" comes from Huang Jinfu's Hong Kong Starlight Communications Group.

Seeing the staff getting up one after another, Li Jiankun called them forward and asked the Fugui brothers to distribute a Han display BB machine to each person. These machines differ from previous samples in that they have painted logos on them:

The background is a "rooster" map composed of dots and lines, and there is no lack of detail.

In the center of the trademark, the word "Huadian" is presented in artistic fonts arranged above and below.

The entire trademark is in a dreamy blue color that represents technology.

"Everyone, I will now teach you how to use it. Do you see the first button on the left below the device? Here, please press and hold this button to turn it on..."

Che Wenlin held a prototype. Since she was not tall, she raised her hand high and taught the staff how to operate it step by step. These BB machines already have batteries installed in them.

After a while, a faint blue circle of light appeared near Li Jiankun.

The staff stared at the words "Welcome" displayed on the screen of the BB machine in their hands, and were amazed. Due to their different levels of knowledge, they knew better than ordinary people how advanced technology was needed to display Chinese characters on electronic devices.

"BB! BB! BB..."

Soon the BB prompts sounded.

Che Wenlin patiently taught them how to check the information, but since the machine was still blank and there was no information, the explanation was a bit empty. At this time, Li Jiankun brought the black walkie-talkie as big as a red brick to his mouth and took the call button:

"Computer room, computer room, send a message to each device."

The technology these days is not yet capable of sending messages in groups and can only send them one by one, but the system operation is not too slow.

"Zizi——The computer room received it."

Soon, the first BB sound sounded, and a buddy holding it hurriedly lowered his head to check according to the method taught by Che Wenlin, and saw a line of simplified Chinese characters displayed on the blue index finger-sized screen:

"I wish you success in your work and a complete success in the National Games!"

<divclass="contentadv">This guy's eyes widened, as if he had witnessed a miracle. There is such a magical, fast, efficient and intuitive text information transmission technology in the world!

During this process, the BB sound sounded again.

Seventeen other staff members also received this message. In an instant, an exciting and uplifting atmosphere filled the hall. Every staff member was shocked and the corners of their mouths raised to the limit.

It’s so high-tech!

Compared with this device, the "advanced" people in their group, who were the first to be qualified to be equipped with pagers, had the device on their waists like a plastic lump.

"Then, comrades, I wish you success in completing this glorious mission."

After Li Jiankun shook hands with the staff one by one, he said goodbye and left. It is obvious that many days of hard work have been in vain and the communication system is operating normally. But when he was about to reach the door, he suddenly remembered something. He stopped, turned his head and asked:

"Who is responsible for receiving Samaranch?"

A thin young man raised his hand. His name was Hu Ganlin, a graduate student in Spanish from the Department of Indo-European Languages ​​at Fudan University, with a minor in English. "I."

There was a kind of envy in the eyes of other staff members, but it was useless to be envious. Although Samaranch was proficient in many languages, he was Spanish himself. He would naturally feel more cordial when he could hear his native language in a foreign country.

Li Jiankun looked Hu Ganlin up and down, and then looked at the BB camera in his hand. A little thought came to his mind, but he stopped after thinking about it, and just said with a smile: "Come on!"

"Thank you."

Watching the four of them walk out of the door, the hall exploded:

"This device is incredible. The technology really needs to be popularized. From now on, everyone will wear it and there will no longer be a problem of not being able to find someone or not communicating information in a timely manner."

“Working efficiency will be greatly improved!”

“This is a life-changing technological creation!”

"I don't know how much it will cost after commercialization. If it is within the affordable range, I will buy one."

"The one who just called us 'comrade'? Is this actually a domestic technology?"

...

Everyone was full of excitement and discussed enthusiastically. After a long time, when preparing to leave, everyone did not forget to do the same action: fix the BB machine to the belt around their waist. Some lesbians did not wear belts and pinned them directly to the waistband of their pants.

After walking out of this hall, I felt an inexplicable sense of pride and enthusiasm. I just wanted to go to a crowded place...

Hu Ganlin's mentality was similar. He did not go shopping on the street. After leaving the stadium, he went straight to the nearby Cultural Affairs Bureau compound.

There is an old three-story building in the compound of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, which is often used by writers from all over the world to study here. It is now planned to be used as accommodation for some staff of the National Games. Hu Ganlin and his foreign guest reception team currently live here.

Hu Ganlin felt excited, put one hand on his waist, jumped up to the second floor in three steps, and ran into dormitory 205.

The furnishings in the dormitory are old and there are two rusty iron frame double beds. His three teammates are lying on the bed to rest, recharge their batteries and prepare for tomorrow's reception.

"What do you think this is?"

Knowing that they were not asleep, Hu Ganlin lifted up his cool white sweatshirt and straightened his right waist.

"A pager for you?"

"Huh? This pager seems different from the one owned by the soldier."

Tao Dabing stood up from the bottom bunk of a double bed, stared at Hu Ganlin's waist, and put a hand on his own waist. "What's the difference? Isn't it all black? It looks better."

The "Shanghai Starlight" pager on his waist is a dull green color, with a bright red warning light at the most conspicuous position on the top.

The other two climbed down from the upper bunk together.

"You're still quite young."

"It seems quite thin."

Tao Dabing said angrily: "The important thing is that it works well. It looks good but it has no use. Mine is produced by the Post and Telecommunications Corporation. The unit where Ganlin and the others distributed pagers today must be some kind of sanitary products factory."

Hu Ganlin was not the kind of person who likes to find conflicts, but he was so excited at this time that he didn't realize the unhappiness in Tao Dabing's mood. When he saw two teammates approaching him, he hurriedly took off the pager from his waist and showed it to them. explain.

When he heard that his pager had a screen and could actually display information in Chinese characters, Tao Dabing couldn't sit still. "impossible!"

Tao Dabing jumped off the bed, pulled on his yellow tendon sandals, walked forward, picked up the pager they admired, and looked at it intently...

"!!!"

Hu Ganlin was still intoxicated with the excitement of being the first to use this high-tech equipment. He hurriedly introduced: "Soldier, why are you lying to me? Look, they just did an experiment and sent us a message. You press these two With this key, you can switch subtitle viewing left and right.”

After some operations, Tao Dabing looked at the Huadian pager in his hand with unstoppable envy in his eyes. Another glance at the Starlight pager on his waist...

What is this?

Your post and telecommunications product is not as advanced as the products from other toilet paper factories?

But with his character, he couldn't say this to hurt his face. After curling his lips, he slapped the Hanxian BB camera back into Hu Ganlin's hands with a look of disgust. "What's the use? After all, it's just a decoration. As mentioned above, the work has been arranged in advance and there will be no temporary changes."

Hu Ganlin waved his hand and said: "I am not thinking about this National Games. Think about it, soldier. If this technology is promoted and can be used by all people, what changes will it bring? How people interact with information, their lives …”

"Okay, okay, stop yelling. The leader told us to have a good rest. I want to sleep." Tao Dabing interrupted him impatiently and lay back on the bed covered with straw mats.

Hu Ganlin scratched his head and realized that his behavior seemed to have made this "advanced" unhappy.