The first generation of "fruit powder" in China

Yu Yongquan, the first person in China to “eat bite apples”, is a professor and doctoral tutor of Guangdong University of Technology and a counselor of the Guangdong Provincial Government. He was born in 1947 and is a Guangzhou native. He is one of the earliest experts in the computer industry in China. He can simply draw the logic diagram of the computer by memory alone, and is the founder of China's fuzzy control products.

Jobs is a very innovative person. It is a pity that he passed away. When the first group of 30 APPLE II computers in the Guangdong Institute of Technology was phased out in the 1990s, I once applied for preservation and exhibitions, but unfortunately it was scrapped.

--- Talking about the Si Siwu, Yu Yongquan lamented that the earliest batch of Apple fans in mainland China is who? Because of his special identity, Yu Yongquan became the "referraler" for Apple Computer's entry into China, and he was fortunate enough to be the first to use Apple Computer. The next day after Steve Jobs died, he took the initiative to contact the Southern Metropolis Daily to introduce a little-known story. In 1982, the Guangdong Institute of Technology (predecessor of Guangdong University of Technology) spent 300,000 yuan to purchase 30 Apple computers for teachers and students in automation majors for scientific research. Yu Yongquan used the teachers and students of the school to carry out computational programming, and used the economic construction to make great contributions to some Guangdong enterprises at that time.

"There is a saying that is very good: You can't just think of computer science as a pure theory. It needs to be more applied to reality," Yu Yongquan said. The Fankou lead-zinc mine in Renhua County, Guangdong Province, is a super-large lead-zinc deposit in China. At that time, the vertical mine was often jammed. “There is a one-month period for a card.” Yu Yongquan said. In the underground of 380 meters, the hopper weighing 7 tons will carry 8 tons of ore. Once the jamming is likely to cause safety problems, it takes nearly one week for each repair, and the impact on production efficiency is extremely high. Big. Yu Yongquan spent nearly a year in programming with these Apple computers and invented the "shaft hopper control and monitoring system." After the installation of the system in the mining area, the failure rate of the hopper was significantly reduced.

In addition, they have successively used Apple Computer for programming design to help Shunde's electronics companies design "wire and cable quality inspection systems," "electric plug detection systems," and "home appliance inspection systems," and other widely used inventions in the real world.

Conversation "The first wave of apple fever in the country, the North used the truck to pull my book"

Reporter (hereinafter abbreviated): When you chose Apple Computer because of popularity?

Yu Yongquan (hereinafter referred to as I): No. At that time, the Ministry of Electronics Industry organized many colleges and universities across the country to go abroad to purchase computers for experimental purposes. Many schools have chosen the more famous IBM, and Canton is one of the few institutions that has chosen APPLE II.

Note: Will there be pressure to buy alternative apples?

Yu: At that time, Apple's popularity was far less popular than it is now. Many people questioned the introduction of Apple, but after the use of this kind of question, it completely disappeared. These Apple computers were very stable during use, and they had advanced operating systems, large memory capacity, and fast computing speed. Moreover, they were color screens. Previous computers were black and white.

Note: What did the earliest use of apple mean?

Yu: I started to contact Apple Computer in 1979. I can say that it was the first person who used Apple in China. Two to three years after the introduction of Apple, in 1984 and 1985, I co-authored two books related to APPLE II, which were widely used as teaching materials in various universities. Some schools in the north used textbooks that year and used trucks to pull my books.

“At that time, private individuals could not afford to buy apples, and they were used for entertainment when they were young.”

Reporter: At that time, Apple Computer is not expensive?

Yu: 30 units, all of which were imported directly from the United States, each with a price of more than 10,000 yuan, and more than 300,000 yuan were huge at the time.

Reporter: At that time, did China privately buy Apple computers?

Yu: At the time, China still lags behind. Computer research is only beginning to invest in IC research on a small scale, not to mention research on microcomputers. There can be no private purchases, when computers were generally used by colleges and universities, and they were mainly used to study programming.

Note: Most consumers of Apple products are mainly used for entertainment. Did you have similar experiences when you were young?

Yu: We will also use Apple Computer to do some "not business" thing. I also liked to play these computers at that time. I was also programming some small games, such as anti-aircraft artillery and flying planes. It was very popular. It was arguably the earliest computer game in China.

Reporter: Do you still choose Apple Computer now?

Yu: I have contacted many brands of computers. Apple is the most stable.