Moreover, the other party only manufactures answering machines and telephones, which does not conflict with their factory's products in any way.

"Director Xing, it's settled then. I'll go back and organize the staff to come over. You can prepare their food and lodging. You don't need to pay their salaries or anything. If they really succeed in developing it, just give them a bonus. Haha!"

"Okay!" Xing Baohua said, extending his hand to shake hands with the factory director again.

At the same time, he thought to himself, "People these days are so honest! They're so easy to fool."

Then he called Xu Shuai over and took Director Gong to the machinery factory's guesthouse for a day's stay.

Xing Baohua rode his bicycle to Secretary Huang's place to discuss with him about setting aside two plots of land at the entrance of the village to be used as staff dormitories.

Xing Baohua's idea was to build more, a two-story building, with each room about 20 square meters.

Let's build twenty of these houses first. Construct them like the old-style tenement buildings from the 1950s and 60s. They don't need to be too nice; just enough to live in for three to five years.

Right now, we can't afford to build more than what's already been built. Let's spend a few tens of thousands of yuan to build a few rooms first. Who knows, they might even be used as dormitories for single people in the future?

After I explained the situation, Secretary Huang said he would report it to the town government. He couldn't make a decision, so he said he would try to handle it tomorrow.

When he returned to the factory, another stranger was waiting for him.

Only after asking did I learn that it was Teacher Cheng who sent someone to deliver the memory to him.

There are about a dozen of each type of DRAM and ROM.

There were even two 64k ROM memory modules that Xing Baohua wanted.

This thing is a treasure! Don't underestimate the small amount of memory we have now; it has a huge range of uses.

When used in two-way pagers, it can store hundreds of messages.

If used in a telephone, it can store hundreds of phone numbers.

This thing is actually the memory we have now.

When you buy a phone, you'll often see numbers like 4+64, 6+128, and 8+512. The numbers in front represent RAM (Random Access Memory). The larger the number, the smoother the device will run.

The numbers that follow represent storage; you can call it a hard drive. It's specifically for storing software, photos, videos, and the like.

With this, Xing Baohua can design many products; the only drawback is that it's a bit large.

To match the size of a CPU. Devices made this way appear large and cumbersome.

But it doesn't matter. We have a two-pound brick-sized mobile phone, so who cares about a half-pound pager!

A sudden inspiration led to the design.

After working all night, Xing Baohua's design finally took shape. If it weren't for the time wasted researching motorcycle patents, he could have completed a third of the work by now, following his approach.

Moreover, Xing Baohua used two ROMs to make the device reach 128k.

To display Chinese characters, we need to add a Chinese character library! The storage capacity is too small to hold it all!

Furthermore, each Chinese character occupies two bytes. There are over ten thousand Chinese characters in total; with such a small amount of memory, how can they be stored?

The only solution is to compress the word count. Xing Baohua calculated that 3,700 commonly used characters would reach approximately 120k.

Even so, it still needs to be compressed. Later, when we have more memory, we'll increase storage capacity on new devices.

Xing Baohua plans to release three versions, one of which is slightly cheaper and is entirely in English.

Another option is the 128k Chinese version, and the third is the premium 256k version. These can store more information.

Xing Baohua plans to sell the Chinese character system he edited; a set of characters costs 100,000 yuan, and anyone who wants to use it can pay the fee.

To be frank, there's no patent protection law in China yet, so wanting a patent is a joke.

From the 1980s to the 1990s, there were so many paging stations! Not to mention the manufacturers of pagers.

A set costs 100,000 yuan, and Xing Baohua estimates he could make around five or six million yuan from it.

Xing Baohua estimates that he can finish compiling the several thousand words in one or two weeks.

I'll have to buy a Xinhua Dictionary later and type each character into the system one by one, referring to the dictionary.

The next day, around noon, Liu Haibo and others came directly to the factory to find Xing Baohua.

Xing Baohua told them that city leaders had come to visit.

Whether it's good news or bad news, let them prepare mentally first. While they're at it, let them use their skills to help gather information.

“Brother Bo, don’t you have people at the TV station? They came to film the day before yesterday. I want to get my hands on all the footage they filmed, not the edited parts that were already on the news,” Xing Baohua said.

"What do you need that for?" Liu Haibo said, picking up the phone to make a call.

“Show Ericsson’s competitors! Such a good product needs to attract people to create competition!” Xing Baohua said.

"Let their vicious dogs fight over food? You're a really wicked guy!" Liu Haibo said with a laugh, and started making a phone call.