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In the state capitol, a curly-haired Mexican-American flamenco shakes hands with government employees in suits.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Allen," Flamingo said, "for making our company's first deal with the state so smooth."

In the past three days, after Flamingo's eloquent lobbying, the New Mexico state government made up its mind to buy two T2 computers.

Chief of Staff Allen: "Hopefully the maintenance support you promised from the company will exist."

"We're here for all computer users," Flamingo said, "and you can rest assured, ma'am, that Tornado computers aren't that vulnerable."

"Oh, I believe this is your best wish." Allen said, "I graduated from UC Berkeley, and I have been exposed to computers five years ago. Whenever the computer is running for 10 minutes to 15 minutes, there will be transmissions behind the wall. There's a 'Bang!' and repairmen with tools and spare parts rush out to the back to repair and replace broken parts before the computer can continue to run. You...Faldin's computer is worse than the one I use in Berkeley Smaller, I'm afraid I'll have a higher chance of hearing a 'bang'."

Flamingo blinked: "Then we can make a bet: if the two computers work continuously for 8 hours, that is, if there is no failure in a working day, then you buy me a glass of tequila; If it breaks down, you can introduce me to one of your college classmates who is working in the government so that I can develop my business. If the computer breaks down more than 2 times in a day, I will give you a calculator keyboard as an accessory."

Allen: "Deal, let's see."

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Falding & Co. is a company registered in the United States, and its parent company, Francis Business Company, is in the United Kingdom.Francis is also the patent of the computer and proxy computer introduced from PEE trading company. PEE trading company purchased the goods from a trading company in Hong Kong...

In short, the procedures for sales in the United States are complete, but when the source is found in Hong Kong, it is gone.

Connecticut.

"Ma'am, we have typewriters in almost every office. I believe it has become an indispensable work item for you. But have you ever imagined that when you want to draft an official document, the finished article can be displayed on the display screen?" Play it back and check it, and when we find a typo or formatting error, we can revise it on the computer until it's correct before printing it out?"

The salesman sits in front of the computer keyboard and demonstrates how to use the computer to process official documents. He is typing on the keyboard. After typing a short paragraph of text, the salesman presses the up and down arrows on the keyboard, and the cursor moves, and the text displayed on the three-line screen moves accordingly. If a line of characters is too long, you can also use the left and right arrows to see the first half of the line and the rear end plate.In short, the entire article can be seen on the three-line screen.

"Besides, for accounting staff, it is also a complex calculator that can never make mistakes." The salesman switched to calculator mode in a blink of an eye, "The keyboard of the computer has a few more keys than the usual typewriter, of which here The number keys and the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division symbol keys are convenient to use when used as a calculator."

"This is a card punching machine. Sir, have you ever worked for the Federal Census Bureau? Also used a population card machine? Just like the UNIVAC-1's punching machine, it can also punch holes in cardboard .But compared to the UNIVAC-1, our computer can not only punch holes in paper cards, but also print text on certain areas of the card.”

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The T51 computer is not called T51 in the United States, it is called "Tornado" computer.

In fact, it is a refurbished T51. Some broken and old parts were replaced, cleaned and painted, and then the peripherals were equipped with useful ones.

But it’s not all refurbishment. The T51 computer is equipped with the same type of keyboard as the T53. The typing experience is first-class, far surpassing the office typewriters of this era.

The keyboard alone is estimated to be able to hold many users.

"Principles of Sales:

[-]. The priority of government departments is higher than that of commercial companies, and commercial companies are higher than universities.It is impossible for employees of government departments to make a computer for their own use, but universities, especially top-ranked universities, can.Selling computers to universities has a high probability of returning in vain.

1. Government departments and companies that have used or purchased American-style computers are the priority sales targets.Although they already have a computer, the absolute performance advantage of the Tornado computer will make the sellers of American computers resolutely surrender.

[-]. Do not sell this computer to the US military and nuclear weapons research institutions.

[-]. If the stock is sold out, and there are still a large number of users who want to buy more computers, please suggest them to contact the Chinese embassy in the United States. "

After completing the government order in Connecticut, the salesman was on his way to the next city, and he turned over this salesman's work rules and reviewed them carefully.

Chapter 46, McKesson sells computers

There are only 25 computers sold by the bag company plus white gloves.In fact, more than 80 T50s and T51s have been refurbished in the workshop on Zhongguancun Street.

It's not that you don't sell it, but that you have to think about how to buy it when you sell it.

According to the sale of 80 computers, after deducting the part taken by middlemen, it can earn about 3000 million US dollars and 1.5 million rubles.If the policy of the China Special Committee of the Paris Coordinating Committee is still followed, basically China will not be able to buy anything.In other words, the West does not sell anything you want to buy.That's the kind of thing the West is willing to sell - should China buy some Burgundy wine and then some Coca-Cola?

It might as well buy back Marilyn Monroe.

If you can't buy what you want to buy, there is a high probability that the money will become the so-called foreign exchange reserves.The problem is that now China does not want to build foreign exchange reserves, China wants to buy industrial equipment for domestic construction.

The export management ban of the Paris Coordinating Committee is actually a copy of the "Export Administration Act" of the US Congress and the "Export Administration Regulations" of the Ministry of Commerce.Oh, not long after, on August 1954, 8, the United States will pass a bill called the "Atomic Energy Act". Of course, this bill restricts the export of atomic energy equipment and technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern countries, and even restricts the export to the younger brother of the United States at the same time.Perhaps restricting his little brother's access to nuclear technology is the real purpose of this bill.

The goal of China is not to let the United States remove China from the export embargo list, but at least it has to open an opening for China.

The "Export Administration Regulations" makes a ranking list for each country and product.

Countries are divided into five categories: A, B, C, D, and E. Category A is the country with the best relationship, such as the later Five Eyes alliance. File E is a country that is at war with the United States.China... China's war in North Korea is a volunteer army, so it is in the D-rank country, but it is also very strict. It is treated the same as the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. From the United States, you can only buy Coca-Cola and wheat, a slightly technological industry. Products are not allowed to be imported.

The classification of goods is more complicated. For example, weapons and equipment that may be used as weapons are divided into 21 levels from pistols to atomic bombs. Materials, chemicals, microorganisms, and toxins are combined into one category, and material processing is also included in a large category.

If the U.S. can’t reach an agreement, there’s nothing they can do. The 80 refurbished computers will still be sold. Anyway, the U.S. has already copied the production of transistors, and has also stolen a T51. In theory, the computer architecture can continue to be copied.

The recovered foreign exchange will start the situation in another country.

"Among the Batumi countries, France and Sweden can try to contact and open a breakthrough. These two countries have relatively advanced industrial technology and are of value to our industrial construction. France has built a nuclear reactor in 1948 and started it in 1952. The nuclear industry plan, the construction of a large number of nuclear power projects and the development of nuclear physics research, do not rule out the possibility of developing nuclear weapons. According to current intelligence, France’s computer technology even lags behind that of Britain and the United States. After France launched its nuclear program, the use of electronic computers The need is urgent and French researchers feel it."

"At the Geneva conference, if France withdraws from the Indochina Peninsula cleanly, we can use the diplomatic missions in France to contact it privately at a later time, and exchange computer equipment for some industrial equipment or industrial technology."

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Two weeks after the Bag Company sold out of its 25 computers, Senator William Nolan of California came to Washington and paid a covert visit to the Chinese embassy in the United States.

Gu Weijun met with Nolan.

"Hello, Mr. Gu! I didn't expect it to be you...haha," Nolan said, "We are old friends."

"Shortly after I became the Chinese ambassador, in 1949, we met," Gu Weijun also said with a smile, "From 1949 to 1952, you supported and helped me on many occasions."

Nolan and Gu Weijun chatted really happily.

Gu Weijun was still the ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States when they met.

Nolan is not simple either.He and a group of senators and representatives are called the "China Gang" in Congress. This China is the Republic of China, so it is actually the "Chang Kaishen Gang".

After the founding of New China, the United States once considered whether to recognize the legal status of New China.Every time the Congress discusses this matter, the "China Gang" expresses strong opposition. In order to prevent the US executive branch from recognizing the new China, the "China Gang" lobbys middle-ground congressmen everywhere, and even McCarthy comes out to cooperate with the "China Gang" There are relationships.Not only lobbied in the U.S. Congress and attacked New China in the media, but the "China Gang" also interfered with the voice of Chinese representatives more than once at the UN General Assembly, discrediting China's resistance to US aggression and aid to Korea.

At that time, Nolan was one of the leaders of the "China Gang", and Gu Weijun was the ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States. Indeed... they cooperated a lot.

Now that Gu Weijun is representing New China, Nolan even drove to the door, and the two of them are really like friends for many years, chatting so happily, it is enough to show that Nolan and Gu Weijun are deep-skinned.

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"Mr. Gu," Nolan exchanged pleasantries for a few minutes before getting to the point, "The California state government has recently added a computer, which is just as big as an iron cabinet, and there is also a particularly delicate typewriter. Both the California government staff and my people said This "tornado" computer is very powerful. Some people say that this computer is made in China. Is it true?"

Gu Weijun smiled slightly, and took Nolan to a room next to the embassy's reception hall.

A T51 computer stands here.

Not only is it placed here, but it is also in working condition. The staff of the embassy is inputting the documents and then proofreading and printing them.

Nolan believed it the moment he saw T51.

Although he is anti-communist, he is not stupid. Since 1951, Nolan knows what the U.S. military has done on the Korean battlefield.