Back then, Zhou Qingfeng stayed in the wasteland of the Caribbean and did not go to South America. He was just thinking about all the good things in North America. If he really went to South America, what else could he do besides mining and chopping down trees? People there are very lazy.
, piles of waste.
Zhou Qingfeng is currently occupying the wasteland of Mexico, which is invading North America. He collects things from North America through various channels, and various mechanical and electronic products are the absolute majority. And the various things collected need to be processed.
In the city of Lehi in southern Utah, there is a wafer fab that was originally a joint venture between Intel and Micron. This is the factory that Xiao Yi plans to move to the real world. However, it is difficult to move the factory. Xiao Yi has not been able to find enough professionals there.
All the equipment in the head will be scrapped if moved randomly.
Xiao Yi also thought about reopening the factory, but it turned out that he couldn't even control the Mormon Church in Utah. The semiconductor industry chain was too long, and it couldn't be solved without any link, so restarting the factory was far away.
Although there was no way to restart work, some of the workers Xiao Yi recruited again would not have nothing to do. Zhou Qingfeng found a job for them at the first order - sorting out the 'garbage' that was collected.
Freeman was originally an employee of the wafer fab. He received a master's degree in computer science from the University of Utah and worked in Intel's wafer fab for more than ten years. He was originally supposed to be testing wafers in the ultra-clean workshop, but now he is
I am an 'elongated' person who spends time with a pile of electronic waste every day.
"Freeman, come and sign for it." The transportation fleet will transport all kinds of electronic waste every day, and the driver will ask Freeman to deliver the entire truckload of "garbage" to the warehouse.
There is a large maintenance and sorting workshop near the warehouse. Thousands of people are busy here, doing repetitive tasks every day. For example, cleaning up dusty electronic waste.
There are thousands of long tables in the workshop, and different types of electronic waste will be delivered in different categories. Mobile phones belong to the mobile phone department, and computers belong to the computer department, and they are even divided by brand.
"Send these thirty HP servers to area B7."
"Model 977, give it to Tony for inspection."
"Don't send these obviously damaged ones to us. Send them to the scrap area. The repair yield is related to our income."
Freeman's job is to sort, and he is very familiar with all kinds of electronic products. He can judge at a glance whether they are expensive, common, advanced, or old. This ability allows him to earn more than ordinary maintenance personnel.
Two or three times, which is enviable in the last days.
Freeman agreed with the Legion's collection of large amounts of electronic equipment. After all, no one knows when life will return to the life before the Cataclysm, and equipment recycling is necessary. However, many strange things happened during the recycling process that puzzled him.
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"These old Dell servers are sent to the modification area."
"Are these IBMs broken? Find a way to have them repaired."
"Pay attention to cleaning all the dust in all servers, especially the power supplies with fans. The higher-ups have requested that these products be as beautiful as new."
Freeman originally only focused on equipment produced in recent years, but a few days ago the Aurora Legion headquarters sent an order to focus on collecting a batch of servers produced ten to fifteen years ago. He also required thorough maintenance and cleaning to ensure that these servers looked good.
It looks like it just left the factory.
This order is so strange. Freeman feels that there is no need to deliberately collect a batch of old servers. Because the annual global sales of servers are around 10 million units, the number of servers currently being searched is huge, and the advanced ones cannot be used up.
There are more old models.
But Freeman discovered that the Legion headquarters was not joking. They seriously asked all maintenance factories to clean out a batch of old servers from ten years ago. The first batch of the number was about 100,000 units, and they focused on a few well-selling classics.
model.
Freeman had to work regardless of management or understanding. And after the production line he managed stocked up on thousands of servers that were needed for roll call, the Legion headquarters actually shipped a batch of server casings.
"Erase the silk screen of the main chip on the original server, put the 'radiation' LOGO on it, and replace it with a new casing?" Freeman didn't understand the order issued by the headquarters.
Servers can basically be regarded as enhanced personal computers, which require high stability and reliability. Some servers work continuously after being powered on until they are eliminated, but their performance is often still good.
Forget about cleaning, but changing the logos and shells of these servers is redundant, right? Freeman has never encountered such a thing in all his years of work.
It is easy to replace the casing, and it is also simple to erase the silk screen of the original model number on the chip. However, it is a bit troublesome to re-print the 'radiation' laser LOGO on the chip, but this is just a little troublesome and not an unsolvable problem.
Soon, Freeman's production line completed the task of modifying a thousand high-end network servers from ten years ago. The first batch of goods was even shipped directly to Mexico by cargo plane, and received good scores in the test and was personally praised by the regiment commander.
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Following the praise were 50,000 bottles of whiskey and various ingredients also shipped by cargo plane. These rare luxuries made Freeman's factory full of joy.
Because of the reward, the factory even had a day off and allowed the workers to get drunk. Everyone felt that their work was respected and their efforts were not in vain.
As an important member of the quality management system, Freeman even received an award from the Corps headquarters. In recognition of his outstanding work, the Corps even gave him a woman.
"Freeman, you lucky guy, come here quickly." The factory supervisor called Freeman to the stage at the celebration banquet and announced the special reward to him in front of everyone. "You can learn from these ten women.
Choose one of them to be your partner."
The supervisor used a virtual projection to show ten young and beautiful women, which immediately caused whistles at the celebration. Many people laughed and urged Freeman to choose according to their preferences.
Although the gradual stabilization of society has allowed women to appear in public again, the situation of more men than women may not change for many years. The Legion has always liked to reward partners for those who have made meritorious services. This serious violation of gender equality actually caused a great deal of trouble within the Legion.
welcome.
Freeman picked the woman he liked and asked his supervisor: "Just because the old server I built works stably, the headquarters sent me a woman?"
"Do you think this job is too easy?" The factory manager said with a grin while drinking whiskey: "We are afraid that we will have to repair tens of thousands of old servers in the future, and the entire North America will need to collect all kinds of electronic waste.
Millions of units checked out.”
"Who still needs this kind of old server now? We obviously have more advanced servers. I don't know who to sell millions of them to. I think only fools will need them." Freeman was confused. But it's always true that whiskey goes into your stomach.
The factory supervisor just laughed, and there were many people like Freeman in North America. A large number of servers that were refurbished and refurbished by them were quickly shipped to Mexico, and in turn were shipped to the real world.
Blades and tower servers are stacked in the transfer warehouse, and their models and specific performance have been carefully studied to ensure that no information from another world will be leaked. While Zhou Qingfeng did this secretly, Xiao Yidi He asked uncertainly: "Is this really okay?"
"Why not?" Zhou Qingfeng asked back: "This is the latest product of our 'Radiation Electronics', an epoch-making new server. Its performance is improved by a whole generation compared to existing servers. Faster speed, greater bandwidth, and more Good response.
I have even prepared a lot of professional software to be put on the market. I still have a sufficient supply and will definitely not run out of stock in one or two years. This is our 'Fallout 1' series, and we will also launch 'Fallout 2' in the future. 3,4'. I guarantee that I will defeat other players in the server market."
Seeing Zhou Qingfeng's confidence, Xiao Yi felt sad for his opponent for a moment.