The cable car goes deep into the tunnel along the cableway. The dim yellow lights above the head form arcs on both sides of the dome. Looking forward, it feels like you are inside the body of a giant snake. The arcs of light are the snake's ribs.
151 is a huge underground ant nest. Even the staff inside the base rarely visit all the tunnels in the entire base. Its main structure is a huge H when viewed from top to bottom. The difference of this H-shaped tunnel is Some of them belong to different departments of the base. Temple 104 is in the main cave on the left and is responsible for the maintenance of the red lotus. Main cave 105 is on the right and is responsible for other tasks. The personnel in the two main caves do not interact with each other during working hours.
151 is such a place. If you don't carry a map with you, you won't know where the deep tunnels you see lead to.
They may take you to an unexpected destination, especially in the dead of night when no one is coming or going. It is entirely possible to wander around on 151 for several hours without finding a way out until you bump into someone working at work the next morning. Comrade, so the worker cadres in the base always only follow the path they are familiar with.
Mr. Ji took a group of cadres from the equipment department and logistics department in the cable car. They got off the platform at the 105 main cave and headed to the 112 workshop in a hurry.
There are three giant machinery maintenance workshops in the base. 110 is the Honglian special workshop and is the most important one. 111 is the backup workshop and is currently empty. 112 is the coolest one.
Because here is the coolest giant weapon in the world.
Codename Chaofeng.
The only all-vacuum tube computing core steam power technology verification machine in human society.
This is a project that Old Man Ji personally led the technical team to tackle. No one can tell that this bad old man who always has a bad face on his crotch and has a heart of Warhammer 40K can come up with such a punk thing, mocking the wind The original design intention was based on people's concerns about super electromagnetic pulses. When Seraph 001 erupted, it not only almost overturned the North American continent, but also caused the most powerful and longest electromagnetic pulse that humans have ever seen. It wiped out half of the world's Electronic products and all satellites, the high-energy charged particles filled in the upper atmosphere persist for years, and even affect the earth's magnetic field in turn.
This crazy angel made the weapons in human hands useless overnight.
EMP is the natural enemy of any precision electronic instrument, especially giant machinery. Its operations rely on the powerful computing power of the computing core's trillions of floating-point operations per second. However, the more precise the integrated circuit, the more afraid of electromagnetic pulse, unless You use a huge Faraday cage to completely wrap up the entire giant machine and isolate it from the world. Otherwise, the surge current caused by EMP can burn the giant machine into scrap metal in a few seconds.
Imagine this situation: a second angel with the ability to cause a super electromagnetic pulse burst arrives (Old Man Ji believes that such an angel must exist), which can instantly put human communication systems, command systems, and decision-making agencies into a long-term Paralysis, humankind's modern civilization built on Maxwell's equations has no way to deal with this kind of attack that directly hits the weak point. It can make the giant machine offline at a distance of 800 kilometers.
Old Man Ji still vividly remembers the disaster in the collapse.
So he presided over a strange and even bizarre project (if Old Man Ji wasn't too senior and his status was too high, it would have been difficult for such a nonsense project to pass approval). Everyone was busy upgrading the system to make the computing core more and more sophisticated. , going against the general trend of faster and faster calculations, going against the current, and finding a new way to dig out an old antique that has long been decayed from human history.
This old antique is as old as Old Man Ji's father.
- Vacuum tube computer.
What a Luoyang shovel, this grave was dug so much that even if you touch Captain Jin, you have to give a thumbs up and say professional.
If you had to use four words to describe vacuum tube computers, they would be: silly, big, black, and thick.
The computing speed of dozens of tons of gadgets cannot keep up with the "return to zero" calculator. If it weren't for the super EMP that can burn the calculator, it would be better to use this thing with a calculator, but it has one thing that is difficult to replace The benefits - not afraid of lightning strikes, not afraid of gamma rays, not afraid of electromagnetic pulses.
It's simple enough, what is a vacuum tube? Three metal electrodes are inserted into a sealed glass bulb, and the interior is evacuated. It has the function of one-way conduction. It is such a simple thing. The big one has a thick wrist, and the small one has big fingers. The vacuum tube of the 21st century is in daily use. It is almost extinct. Only some high-end audio equipment uses vacuum tubes as amplifiers, pursuing a "high sound, sweet midrange, accurate bass, and in a word, transparency."
A vacuum tube can represent a 0/1. A vacuum tube computer inserts thousands of glass bulbs on the board and strings them together to form a logic circuit. It is conceivable that its size, weight and power consumption are difficult for modern people to predict. With the microelectronics technology of the 21st century, a bulky computer that covers an area larger than an entire manor has been reduced to a huge integrated circuit that is no bigger than a pinky fingernail.
With a wave of his hand, the old man Ke Ji turned the clock back to the 1940s. The technical level of the vacuum tube computer was not much different from that of ENIAC, the first computer in human history, and it was also better than Alan Turing. The bomb machine built at Bletchley Manor was so advanced that Old Man Ji resolutely carried this old antique machine onto the battlefield. It was like the era of starship bombardment. The general has his artillery set up - are you lagging behind? Falling behind, but the artillery shells can ignore the opponent's guidance interference and blast the hell, falling behind is not a shortcoming!
So fucking Warhammer 40K.
If one day the angels once again erupt a super electromagnetic pulse that sweeps the world, and all human giants are scrapped, then Xiaofeng will lead a large group of vacuum tube punks, steam-powered hydraulic giants, onto the battlefield. Just think about it! What a scene it was, giant warriors with steam all over their bodies walking on the earth, their brains like vacuum tubes emitting light and heat, the driver sitting in the cockpit, with steel cables on his hands and feet, and the steam in front of him. CRT monitors and mechanical instruments with green light are everywhere, and there is a roar and a strong smell of engine oil——
It's really wonderful, but it's a pity that I thought too far... Old Man Ji shook his head.
He put his hands in his pockets and stood on the work surface.
The giant machine hung in the cave, with only half of its body. Unlike Honglian, this giant machine was pitch black, with thick pipes and cables hanging from the fractures on its waist and abdomen, like the internal organs of a giant.
It is covered with a huge plastic sheet, and workers in Workshop 112 are pulling the steel cables to lift the plastic sheet.
Old Man Ji clapped his hands vigorously in the empty cave and said loudly:
"Let's try one hand first! Kids! Turn on the boiler!"
(End of chapter)
