"Xiao Xing! Give me the form first. When the director comes, I'll get his signature. You go to the finance department to collect your money. There's nothing else for you here. You can go now." Director Liu took over, not wanting the two young men to cause trouble. Everyone could see they had a conflict, and it wouldn't look good in front of the provincial experts.

"Alright, I'll give you face. Oh, Zhang, you brought floppy disks. What software?" Xing Baohua, who was about to leave, noticed several floppy disks on the table in front of Zhang Xuebao's bag.

"Two basic software programs and three localized versions of office software," Zhang Xuebao replied with a smile.

"Can I take a look?" Xing Baohua asked.

Before Zhang Xuebao could answer, Hou Liwei interrupted, "What are you looking at? Just because you can fix it doesn't mean you understand it. Didn't Director Liu tell you to leave first? There's nothing for you here. Get out!"

Hearing Hou Liwei's commanding tone, Xing Baohua's stubbornness flared up. A mocking smile played on her lips as she said, "Today I'll show you what a computer expert really is."

He pushed Zhang Xuebao aside with his hand, saying sorry, and sat down directly in front of the computer. He picked up a floppy disk and inserted it into the floppy drive, without even checking the label on the drive for what software it contained.

After entering the command to start running it, I realized that this software was a Chinese version of Word, or rather, a writing pad. At this time, office writing systems were not yet fully integrated with Office. Even though Word on the computer was just a prototype, using technical terms to refer to text editors and perform specific functions, it was more like a later code editor.

Of course, if you modify the software program and rewrite the code, this software can also be used as a code editor, allowing you to write software directly. If you have a chip, you can also write commands directly.

"This software is very practical for office work. Especially after being localized into Chinese, it allows you to directly write documents and print them directly," Xing Baohua said, turning slightly to Zhang Xuebao. His hands then casually scribbled out Chinese characters.

Somewhat surprised, he asked, "Is the Chinese character library written in the software?"

In Xing Baohua's memory, the Chinese character database was quite large, with a 5.2-inch floppy disk having a capacity of only 1.2MB. With the addition of this writing pad program, there was almost no space left on the floppy disk.

Saving documents written in this Chinese-language notebook is a problem.

Zhang Xuebao adjusted his glasses and said, "The computer's hard drive has 10MB, right? Just copy it to the hard drive using a floppy disk, so you can use it anytime. If the hard drive space is insufficient, I have quite a few empty floppy disks here, so you can copy the files you've written to the floppy disks for saving."

“I understand. Don’t you have any hardware that supports Chinese language support? Like a Chinese character card or something. That way it wouldn’t take up hard drive space. By the way, which company are you from?” Xing Baohua asked.

“The provincial computer company,” Zhang Xuebao repeated, wondering if the young man had a bad memory or hadn’t been listening carefully to his introduction.

Suddenly, Xing Baohua remembered something. The provincial computer company where this person worked had achieved considerable success later on. It was the Dalang Group, which was later established. The provincial computer company also had a predecessor, the provincial electronic components factory, which specialized in producing tubes. The country's early satellites used tubes from this factory. Later, it changed its name because it started producing computers.

Xing Baohua immediately had a plan in mind. These days, apart from the most advanced computers which had built-in hard drives, even computers from a year earlier didn't have them. With so much software, it became inconvenient to use. He could use external hard drives! If one hard drive wasn't enough, he could add another. If that still wasn't enough, he could get a multi-drive read-only data transfer device.

This is the most common form of multi-disk copying in later generations. An external hard drive is used as a portable hard drive, housed in an outer casing. Software is transferred between these drives, suitable for large office environments, such as R&D companies like Dalang Group, where an office typically has many people and machines.

Since there was no internet connection at the time, floppy disks were the only means of data transfer, and their capacity was fixed. They couldn't hold even slightly larger files or programs.

You need to show your skills to the engineer and attract his attention, so that he can at least use your plan. This is how you take the first step.

"This software is still a bit large, I'll slim it down." As he spoke, Xing Baohua opened the programming software that came with his computer and imported the Chinese version of Word.

A string of code was displayed on the computer screen, leaving everyone inside completely baffled. Only Zhang Xuebao could understand it.

Su Ya had been craning her neck to watch Xing Baohua operate the machine, and now she was even more confused.

She knew about the software; the manual said it could be used to write things, but she couldn't find the technical terms in the English-Chinese dictionary, so she never knew what the software was for.