Chapter 1792: Summer in Fool Village (VI)

Chapter 1766: Summer in Fool Village (VI)

Schiller decided to buy himself a computer.

In his previous life, Schiller also had a computer. When he was studying abroad, he assembled a desktop computer by himself. After becoming a professor, he basically only used the office notebooks distributed by the school.

All Schillers have basically the same level of electronic assembly. To know how good it is, you still have to ask the trash can that contained many discarded parts in the SHIELD.

In this era, assembling a computer is not just buying parts and installing them in the case. Assembly can be almost the same as making it by hand, so assembling a desktop computer was not within Schiller's range of choice from the beginning.

Then the only option left is to buy a finished machine, but Schiller still prefers to buy a laptop, so that he can solve the two problems of no computers in the office and the manor at the same time. Although the laptops of this era are not thin and light, it is okay to drive with them.

Greedy did leave a laptop computer he got from Marvel at Gray Fog's place, but this laptop computer was made for him by Stark. If it was thrown out, it could smash through the moon. It was a bit too advanced for Schiller, who just wanted to use it to check emails, so Schiller decided to buy one himself.

Schiller and Merkel drove to the commercial street in the South District, where the Gotham Electronic Equipment Procurement Center was located.

Thanks to the booming logistics industry in Gotham, it has also become the largest electronic component storage center on the East Coast. Many large electronic equipment groups have set up logistics warehouses here. The retail electronics industry for civilians has developed far beyond other cities on the East Coast in just two years.

In this era, not many people have computers, and mobile phones are basically only affordable for rich people, but people are still entering the electronic information age. Refrigerators, televisions, fax machines, video recorders, stereos, electronic doorbells, Gotham people with slightly better living conditions have one or two at home.

Gotham Electronic Equipment Procurement Center is located in a commercial building. Schiller found that the parking spaces were overcrowded as soon as he drove to the vicinity. He had to go around two streets and find a parking space in the alley behind the building.

After getting off the car, before entering the building, he saw a bustling crowd coming and going at the gate, mostly young people and families, dressed very fashionably.

Gotham cannot be called a fashion capital, but in this crazy city, people's daily lives are fashionable enough. Schiller even saw some photographers who looked like outsiders taking street photos in the square in front of the gate.

Finally, there is some millennial atmosphere, Schiller thought, and walked into the building of the Electronic Equipment Procurement Center.

This is not an electronics hypermarket, but different offices are set up by brand. Each company will put their flagship product brochures on the newspaper rack at the door of the office. You can decide whether to go in after reading them outside the door.

Some companies also set up exhibition booths, mostly on the first floor, which is also the most crowded place. Schiller had a clear goal, so he was not in the mood to wander around. He took the elevator directly to the fourth floor and found the two largest offices here.

These two offices belong to two companies, one is the Wayne Group and the other is the Luther Group.

Where else can you buy electronic products in the DC world? Now the most famous computer system in the world is not the Microsoft system, but the Wayne system. Brands like Apple and Sony have to stand aside. Whether it is hardware or software, Wayne and Luther are the real giants.

This is not surprising. Bruce Wayne did not start his career as Batman as soon as he debuted. Instead, he spent several years in college. During these years, he did not have much time to study psychology. All subjects except psychology have been studied to the pinnacle, naturally including computer hardware and software development.

In early 1994, the Wayne Group launched a new laptop equipped with the Wayne 1994 system. Yes, the boot pattern is a bat.

Schiller suspected that Bruce had developed a technology similar to Windows 95's direct GUI interface just to make the bat pattern appear in front of everyone without warning when the computer was turned on.

And it was more likely that he developed the computer system just to make the bat pattern visible to the whole world.

Schiller picked up the product manual of the Wayne Group and found that the Wayne Group dealt in almost all categories of electronic products, including various household appliances, and the first page of the brochure was printed with a brand new laptop.

Unlike the current laptops with 16-inch screens, the laptops of this era are more like notebooks. They are square boxes with small screens and keyboards that are as compact as possible. The overall color is matte black, and the logo of the Wayne Group is printed in the center of the front.

Schiller believed that Bruce had definitely thought about changing the logo to a bat. The failure to change it might be because other shareholders of the Wayne Group tried their best to stop it. After all, bats have bad meanings in some areas and may affect the sales of computers.

After reading the product manual, Schiller did not make a decision immediately. He came to the door of another company. The laptops of the Luther Group were much more normal.

Just about two months ago, the Luther Group also launched their latest laptop computer, the "Human Light L2", which is also equipped with a brand new Luther system.

The shopping guides at the Luther Group were quite enthusiastic. When they saw someone reading the product manual, they immediately rushed out of the office. Before Schiller said what he wanted to buy, they had already brought the latest laptop computer.

The shopping guide immediately opened the laptop computer to show Schiller the interface. The interface of the Luther Group's laptop computer was quite fancy, and the user interaction was also very advanced. It looked like an XP system.

Schiller hesitated a little. Originally, a person who was familiar with Batman's technical capabilities would definitely choose Wayne Group's products as much as possible, because the quality of Bat technology was definitely guaranteed.

But Schiller really couldn't stand the backward user interaction system of this era. No matter what he did, he had to enter a series of codes.

Everyone thought that Schiller didn't like to receive emails and was old-fashioned and unwilling to accept advanced electronic devices. Only Schiller himself knew that he didn't want to be tortured by these backward old-fashioned machines.

"Sir, if you have requirements for convenience and family interaction, you must choose our L2. It greatly improves the convenience of the user interface compared to L1, simplifies the operation process as much as possible, and also has built-in functions such as multi-webpage operation saving and email account password saving. If you check emails frequently, this is really the best choice."

The shopping guide saw that Schiller was a buyer with purchasing power and was interested in this product, so he promoted it very hard. He then took out the price tag and introduced it.

"We are in the three-month promotion period, and we can give you a 30% discount. The original price of $9,200 is only $6,440 after the discount. This is the price including tax. You must not miss it..."

Schiller looked back at the square black box of the Wayne Group, and then at the silver-gray device of the Luther Group without any logo on the whole body, and he hesitated.

Ten minutes later, Merkel put the box with the Wayne logo into the trunk of the car, sat in the main driver's seat, and Schiller sat in the co-pilot, and the two drove back to Rodriguez Manor.

After returning, Schiller called back Harley and Barry, who were playing in the garden and were all dirty, and asked Merkel to take them to take a shower and change clothes, and then put the box with the computer on the coffee table.

"Wow, you bought a computer?!!" Harley immediately shouted and rushed directly to the computer box and said, "Quick, quick, quick! Open it quickly, I want to play games!"

Schiller sat on the sofa opposite and took a sip of coffee, then said, "Help me call up the email interface first, and you can use it as you like after I finish reading the email."

Barry and Harley were busy unpacking the computer box, and soon they took out the square black laptop from it. Harley held the laptop, which weighed about seven pounds, with some effort and looked it up and down.

"I bet the boot pattern is a bat."

"Don't bet on such an obvious fact."

Harry and Schiller looked at each other and sighed. Harry put the laptop on the coffee table. Merkel brought the power supply. After plugging it in, the screen lit up quickly.

Harry and Barry frowned and started fiddling with the computer. After about ten minutes, Harry looked up and said, "The interactivity of this system is a piece of shit."

Barry also sighed and said, "This is too troublesome. If you want to access the web page, you have to write a piece of access code yourself."

Schiller took the notebook handed over by Merkel, wrote down his email address on it with a pen, and handed it to Harley. Harley typed on the keyboard for a long time before turning the laptop over and said, "Okay, this is your email. Call us after you read it. Let's go eat something first."

After that, Harley took Barry away, and Schiller started fiddling with the laptop alone.

Merkel stood behind Schiller with a cup of coffee, watching Schiller click the screen in various places with very inflexible movements.

Many people may not understand that there is no such thing as UI design in the more backward web pages. Whether a place can be clicked or not can only be known after clicking it. There is no smooth design like modern web pages where the mouse hovers over the button and there is a click animation.

Schiller worked for a long time, and Merkel was tired. He took a sip of coffee and asked: "Sir, why don't you buy a laptop from the Luther Group? It looks much more convenient."

After taking a sip of coffee, Schiller sighed and said: "Maybe it's because I like black."

The rumbling thunder sounded in the sky, and dark clouds gathered over the city again. Within a few minutes, heavy rain fell, and the people of Gotham finally experienced what it means to meet the sweet dew after a long drought.

This long-unseen heavy rain finally dispelled the annoying heat for a short time. A hearty rain fell from the afternoon to the evening, until the night of Gotham became cool and humid again.

When Schiller raised his head again, lights were on everywhere in the manor, and a warm hazy halo appeared in the humid air.

Schiller stretched his aching neck and said angrily and depressedly: "This computer has the beauty of a supercomputer."

Just then, a "click" and two children's screams came from the back garden.

When Merkel and Schiller walked to the door leading to the back garden, they saw a familiar figure on the familiar tree branch - it was Batman.

At this moment, Merkel had a new understanding of Batman's ability to hit the muzzle of a gun.

Bruce: Hi