It’s really an era of chaotic prices!
It is unimaginable that a family of three can live on less than 2,000 yuan a year, and a computer at this time can easily cost more than 10,000 yuan. At this price, there are still several families rushing to buy it, completely relying on the high-tech computer. The gadgets are regarded as essential home appliances such as video recorders and televisions.
Of course, this situation is only limited to first-tier cities such as Pingcheng.
In a city like Pingcheng, there are many rich people, many government officials, and even more intellectuals with knowledge and culture.
In this era facing the turn of the century, people of insight firmly believe that the future belongs to the computer age, and they are willing to spend five or six years of living expenses to buy a 486 computer that is actually useless.
But it is rare for a family like Gu Xiaomi to actually hand over a huge sum of more than 10,000 yuan to the only daughter of the family, allowing her to go to the electronics market to choose and assemble computers independently.
In another two years, such a scenario will never happen, because by then the reputation of Xinzhongguan Electronics Street will become known to every household as "Liar Street"! It refers to this place. People describe this street as a gathering of profiteers who do business by any means, even cheating.
Even now, Xie Zhenhua, who is quite familiar with the Xinzhongguan Electronics Market, must be cautious when purchasing.
The CPU is the core of the computer, and every pin must be carefully checked; the motherboard is the basis for determining performance, from the ISA slot to the PCI slot to every solder joint, carefully observe it sideways; as for the memory, there is nothing you can do about it. , you can only look at each golden finger. It is okay to have scratches but not too much damage.
This is because the memory on the market does not come from formal channels. It is all carried into the mainland manually and there is no packaging at all. However, it is not a real EDO memory, and you need to carefully observe whether there are any polishing marks on the surface of the particles.
Xie Zhenhua's serious look was still a bit cute, at least that's what Gu Xiaomi thought, until the two girls were kicked out of the market by Xie Zhenhua: "You two sticks, stop following me, other stall owners will not repay you even if you are here." Base price.”
Guan Yaxin had long been impatient in this noisy market. Without saying a word, she pulled Gu Xiaomi and left: "Let's go, Xiaomi. I'll take you to the edge of Weiming Lake to cool off. Let this kid finish his shopping alone." ."
Seeing that the two girls were about to leave, Xie Zhenhua started to make sarcastic remarks again: "Don't you know there are many perverts in Yanda? Two beauties entered Yanda, but they were taken away by perverts."
"The great talent from Yan, we can't wait for it! Isn't that right, Xiao Mi'er?" the tough Guan Yaxin immediately replied.
Gu Xiaomi took out a thick envelope from her bag and handed it to Xie Zhenhua: "Thank you for your hard work. Let's just wait for you downstairs. After you buy the things, we will go to my house to assemble them together. I'll treat you to dinner!"
After receiving a thick stack of money and receiving Gu Xiaomi's smile, Xie Zhenhua felt more balanced: "Then I'll give you an hour. Let's meet at the door in one hour, or I can pack a bunch of accessories in large and small boxes myself." Can’t take it away either.”
The CPU was buckled on the motherboard and the memory was plugged in. After powering on, he looked at the self-test information on the display screen. After checking that everything was correct, Xie Zhenhua started to repeat his old tricks: "Brother, I'm from the Resource Building Company. This time I won't send you a note." Jie, would you like to give me a little more concession on the price?"
This trick has been tried and tested. There is no other reason. The entire electronics market and even the entire Xinzhongguan are operating in this way. Every stall owner is eager to have as many people as possible to get goods like this, so the price will naturally be based on the lowest wholesale price. If you give it, even if one company refuses to give it, there are many selling the same product. Letting the customer go is equivalent to giving the competitor an old customer in vain.
After waiting for a dozen accessories for a computer to be collected, Xie Zhenhua counted the cash in his hand. Gu Xiaomi originally asked for a price of 13,600 yuan, but he only spent 11,900 yuan. Just take them all!
There is actually a price difference of 1,700 yuan!
Xie Zhenhua, who had settled the accounts, was extremely proud, and then he suddenly said: "Fuck!"
He never expected that by purchasing all the accessories for a computer himself, he could actually save a huge sum of 1,700 yuan compared to a layman purchasing them by himself!
If you sell braised pork, it will take two or three days to earn the 1,700 yuan. This money is so easy to come by!
Looking up at the counters one after another in the market, I couldn't help but have a new understanding of the money-making ability of these stalls, large and small.
No wonder Yao Yuan said that catering earns hard-earned money. If you want to make big money in the future, you have to find it on the computer.
The electronic market in front of us is just like a gold mine. It depends on whether there is a way to unearth it.
Of course, it is impossible for him to make any money from his classmate Gu Xiaomi, but what if it is someone else?
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Gu Xiaomi's home is opposite the State Guesthouse. It is in a large courtyard with a long history. The red three-story brick building is covered with ivy. The huge locust trees that cover the sky make the whole courtyard environment much cooler. .
Xiaomi's family lives on the first floor, and has a small courtyard enclosed by an iron fence on the first floor. There is a pomegranate tree and many unnamed flowers planted in the courtyard.
As soon as he entered Gu Xiaomi's house, Xie Zhenhua felt that his heart suddenly calmed down a lot. The yellow coach he took when he arrived did not have air conditioning at all, and the sweat all over his body on the road subsided immediately.
Xiaomi's father was at home. After welcoming a few people in, he pointed to a handsome guy sitting on the sofa and introduced them to everyone: "This is my student Qi Lei, a talented student majoring in computer science and Xiaomi's senior brother. You young people Play for yourself, assembling a computer is a rare opportunity for practice, and you all should learn more."
Xie Zhenhua was dumbfounded. Looking at the tall and handsome university student in front of him with gold-rimmed glasses, he felt indescribably suffocated.
Damn, since my work just now was in vain, someone from Xiaomi’s house had already come to pick up the ready-made ones.
The handsome guy Qi Lei was very polite. After taking the initiative to say hello to Guan Yaxin and Xie Zhenhua, he began to unpack the accessories and got busy.
It seemed that handsome guys were more attractive. Even Gu Xiaomi fooled into pouring a glass of boiled water for Xie Zhenhua and immediately followed Qi Lei to help him.
With two beauties helping him, Qi Lei worked even more energetically. Every time he took out a package, he would comment: "Why did you buy a 240-watt power supply? It would be better if it was bigger. It needs to be reserved for the computer." Some redundancy. Hey, why didn’t you buy a large soft area? The 5.25 floppy disk will not be usable in the future. How come this decompression card and the sound card are two-in-one? I wonder if the effect will be good after installing it? "
Xie Zhenhua was so angry that he sat on the bench beside him and poured cold water into his mouth.
I have to say that computer majors are different. A screwdriver can be used very quickly. In less than twenty minutes, a beautiful desktop computer was assembled, and even the data cables were neatly arranged.
After checking the main frequency and frequency multiplier of the jumpers on the motherboard again, Qi Lei said: "Successfully completed!" and turned on the power supply.
The power supply fan started spinning, the computer made a buzzing sound, the monitor lit up with a beep, and the flashing fonts displayed the motherboard information and CPU information in sequence. When it came to the memory self-test, an accident happened.
The bytes of the memory self-test jumped a few times and then stopped there.
My new computer crashed!
A few people looked at each other and stayed in place. Qi Lei scratched his scalp: "What's going on? It shouldn't be. Is the assembly okay?"
Put it on the case, put my hands on my eyes, put my head into the case and started to check again.
Re-insert and unplug the memory, reinstall all the cables, and then carefully restart the computer.
Then, the fault remains.
This time Qi Lei was completely dumbfounded: "What's going on?! There should be no problem with the installation? The memory self-test fails and it keeps getting stuck here. Could it be a memory problem?!"
Xie Zhenhua was sitting in the corner, furious. He had already tried the memory and CPU when he purchased them, so there was no way there would be a problem with them.
The two beauties who helped had no idea. They looked at the computer and then at Qi Lei, and then looked back at Xie Zhenhua who was drinking cold water. They wanted to say something but couldn't.
Qi Lei reached out and pulled out the memory, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and then took a deep breath: "Sister Xiaomi, it may be the memory. You can see that there are traces of friction on this gold finger. It must have been It’s an old memory that has been used by someone, I guess that’s where the problem lies!”
Memory problem? Are you saying that the memory I bought is old? Do you know that all the memory on the market has been tested on the computer, and there must be scratches on all the golden fingers. You are still a talented student, let alone studying stupidly, right? The most unbearable thing is that a stupid man with silly eyes still calls our Xiaomi his sister? !
Xie Zhenhua, who was drinking cold water, finally couldn't help it, and said angrily from the side: "Don't rely on the pit because you can't poop, don't rely on the faulty accessories for your fashionable skills!"
Unexpectedly, the handsome guy Qi Lei was very well-educated. He straightened his eyes and said, "This classmate, I judged the problem based on the fault phenomenon. The memory self-test should certainly be a memory problem, right?"
Gu Xiaomi quickly smoothed things over: "It's okay, it's okay. There are so many accessories in a computer, and it's inevitable that if there are some problems, we can go back and replace them right away, right Zhenhua?"
The word "Zhen Hua" came out of his mouth, and Xie Laozhao'er, who was drinking cold water, felt very worried. He stood up with a sullen look on his face and said, "Why don't you let me come and show you?"
Guan Yaxin couldn't help but said: "Xie Zhenhua! Look at your virtue! If you know how to do it, please help me quickly. It's time to go back to the electronic market. We can't finish installing a broken computer today!"
It seems that buying a computer for my best friend to keep her company all day is a torture to her. Even if there is a handsome guy by her side, it will not work. Women are completely indifferent to electronic products, so this matter is hopeless.
Xie Zhenhua took the memory in Qi Lei's hand and took a rough look at it. He felt that the problem with the memory was not serious, so he leaned over and checked the motherboard carefully.
Looking left and right, I can only see that this computer is assembled very neatly, with neat wiring, and even the torque of each screw is just right. Based on this alone, my level is much higher than that of myself who was born in Yeluzi.
Unwilling to give up, I checked myself again, especially around the memory socket, wondering if there was a problem with a certain solder joint contact, or if there were improper screw positions during installation that caused an open circuit, even though I knew that with Qi Lei's level , the possibility of making such a low-level mistake is very small.
Finally, he found some clues, and then he heard Xie Zhenhua's mouth start to say reluctantly: "I'm talking about Qi handsome guy, you are the only one who majors in computer science? Do you know that computers are also a kind of precision instruments, even if they are just a hair Mistakes will also cause it to operate abnormally?!"
Xie Zhenhua, who had found the truth, began to hold a gun and a stick in his mouth, while Qi Handsome, who was a monk with two feet, could not figure it out, and his face was confused...
