After the purchase order was finalized, the leader of the purchasing team told Wan Feng this.
"The military has realized that computers are extremely important. They may even influence the course of future wars. Therefore, the Military Commission has mandated that all troops begin to popularize and utilize computers. We dare not use foreign computers, fearing they may contain backdoors or Trojans. All components in your computers must be domestically produced. This way, we can use them with confidence."
This requirement is a bit high. Most of the components in Huaguang and Ideal computers are self-produced, but the hard drives are not. The hard drives are produced in Taiwan.
"We haven't reached 100% yet, because although we have started the research and development of hard drives, the products we have produced are not as good as those from outside. Other than that, everything else is self-produced."
Of course, backdoors can be left in the hard drive, so it is not a component that people can trust.
"Poor quality isn't a problem; safety is paramount. We can just gradually improve it. Besides hardware, there's also software. We hope the computer's system applications can also be our own. The military also needs an independent system. I wonder if you can solve this problem."
The military's system must of course be independent for security reasons.
"In fact, the computer desktop systems sold by our company are already our own. Even though the most popular desktop systems on the market have Netscape on them, they also have Huaguang on them. They are our own."
"We knew about this, but unfortunately we found out a little too late and it became a joint venture with a foreign company."
"We have another system that's sealed and unused. If you want to use it, we can give it to you, including the source files and source code."
This system was developed by Qin Guanghui and his team but was not named or adopted. It is slightly behind the Huaguang system.
If the military wants, they can have their department upgrade again.
The team leader's eyes lit up. "Really? That's great! I'll report back and see how much it's worth."
"Don't even mention the money. You guys delivered such a big order this time. It would be petty for me to ask for money for just a system. This system is just a kickback."
"Kid! You used the kickbacks here. You want us to make a mistake! Hahahaha!"
Wan Feng accepted the order, and the purchasing team left after completing their task.
The superiors attached great importance to the system that Wan Feng mentioned, and someone came to take the system away three days later.
Wan Feng even gave the source code to the other party. As for further development and upgrading, it was the job of the top students at the National University of Defense Technology.
Orders are not kept just for show, but to be digested.
Wan Feng handed the order to Zhou Liming and asked him to distribute it.
This batch of orders is not ordinary orders. There are some small confidentiality issues while ensuring the best quality.
Zhou Liming came from the military and naturally understood this. Another reason was that his brother-in-law Wan Feng was at ease.
The other party didn't have any special requirements for the pickup truck, the only requirement was that the paint must be green.
Wan Feng specifically called Mi Guangnan to inquire about the current level of hard drives produced by Huaguang Electronics.
Huaguang Electronics started developing hard drives relatively late, and has only been doing so for about two years.
Mi Guangnan told Wan Feng that it was one generation behind the best computer hard drive on the market.
Wan Feng asked if it could be used.
Mi Guangnan’s answer was that it was okay to make do with it.
Wan Feng was in a dilemma. How could this be used by the military? He deleted the data after using it for a while, and it had problems. This was no joke.
Mi Guangnan's next words made Wan Feng feel more relieved: "Give me three months to make a qualified product. Although it may not be as good as the best hard drives on the market, the quality is guaranteed to be up to standard."
Three months is an acceptable period of time, and this is possible.
1998 was the year when the Internet boom officially began in China. From 1998 to 2002, the Internet swept across China like an overwhelming tide.
China's Internet has entered a period of rapid growth in popularization and application.
In recent years, countless well-known Internet companies have been established and listed during this period.
Wangyi, Xinlang, Sohu, Baidu, Tengxun, and Zhonghua.com, which didn't do well in the later period, as well as a group of companies such as Dangdang, Yitong, eBay, and ChinaRen were all created in this Internet boom.
In 2000, the three major portal websites, Wangyi, Xinlang and Sohu, were listed on NASDAQ one after another, marking the climax of the Internet companies' listing.
But in this life, Xinlang, one of the three major portals, is unlikely to go public because it has become Wanfeng's industry.
This kind of public opinion-making stuff will be controlled by shareholders once it goes on the market, and they will have to decide what content to release.
Wan Feng would never take it public. What content Xinlang wants to put in it is his decision instead of others.
His company has no plans to go public in this lifetime. He has no shortage of information or money, so why should he go public?
By March 1998, Xinlang.com had been operating on the Internet for several months.
Initially, Internet websites had only two functions: browsing news and chatting in chat rooms.
Wan Feng knew that the initial chat room was the key to the success of a website, so he devoted himself to creating many chat rooms with various names.
This attracted countless men and women with amorous thoughts, and various chat rooms were almost overcrowded.
Xinlang.com was the website with the most advertisements in early 1998.
Of course, the advertisements are all from Nanwan Group, ranging from mobile phones and computers to motorcycles, pickup trucks, microvans, cars, trucks, machine tools and some industrial semiconductor materials.
Anyway, anything produced by Nanwan Group can be found on Xinlang.com.
When the companies that distribute the products of Jiangwei Industrial Zone to other countries saw that they could also advertise on it and the advertising fees were very cheap, they also came to advertise.
This makes the advertising on Xinlang.com seem overwhelming.
Due to bandwidth constraints, most advertisements are in text format. Even if there are product images, they can only be very small. If large images are placed, the smoothness of the website will be affected.
But no matter what, Xinlang.com is up and running and has income.
The rise of the Internet certainly requires computers. Without computers, there would be no Internet boom.
This led to large-scale sales of computers.
Starting from 1998, computer sales continued the good momentum of 1997, and the sales of Huaguang and Ideal Computers reached new highs.
At this time, Jingdongfang also successfully developed a 17-inch desktop monitor, which is expected to be on the market in two months. This further improved the grade of the computer and it became synonymous with high-end.
Wan Feng remembers that "Half-Life" would be released in the autumn and winter of 1998, and computer sales would reach a climax.
It’s a pity that Wan Feng has no plans to develop into the gaming industry, otherwise, who would have a chance to play these popular games?
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