Literature/Looking at Human AffairsEditing/Looking at Human AffairsIn the 1980s and 1990s, China's technology was not yet advanced, and not every household had electronic devices in daily life. Electronic devices were still a rare item at that time

Literature/Looking at Human Affairs

Editing/Looking at Human Affairs

In the 1980s and 1990s, China's technology was not yet advanced, and not every household had electronic devices in daily life. Electronic devices were still a rare item at that time.

However, with the progress of technology and the continuous emergence of new equipment, our lives are also constantly changing. And those electronic devices that were popular throughout the country as children have gradually withdrawn from the stage of history and become memories of our generation.

These electronic devices were once popular for a while, but young people nowadays know nothing about them. Now let's recall these nostalgic electronic devices.

Call me if you need anything "on the BP machine

A BP machine, also known as a pager, is composed of superheterodyne receivers, decoders, control and display components.

It selects the useful signal to be received from the paging signal and interference transmitted by the base station, restores it to the original baseband signal of the paging unit, and generates audio (or vibration) and displays numerical (or letter, Chinese) messages.So the pager itself is actually just a signal receiving and display device, and cannot be used alone.

In 1983, Shanghai opened its first paging station and BP machines officially entered China. At that time, Motorola was the production company of BP machines, also synonymous with BP machines. At that time, the price of a BP machine was very expensive.

Since 1990, BP machines have been widely used in China, and the pager market has been exceptionally prosperous, which has gradually intensified competition among pagers. The fashion standard of that era was to wear a BP machine at the waist.

In the 1980s, 'Call me when you need something' was the most popular phrase at the time. If you could hear the sound of beeping, you would definitely attract the envious gaze of people on the street.

In 1993 and 1994, mobile phones began to gradually emerge, and BPs were gradually replaced. Starting in the second half of 1995, the paging market was strongly attacked by the mobile phone market, and the number of paging users began to no longer increase.

Since 1996, the performance of the paging market has declined, with a sharp decrease in the number of users and a sharp decline in the number of paging stations. untilAfter 2005, the BP machine faded out of the Chinese stage.

Boss Standard - Big Brother

While pagers are popular, another one is more convenientCommunication devices with more identity symbols are also popular in the market, and there are even more than that, which is the standard configuration for bosses

The Big Brother and the BP machine were in the same era, but the BP machine was very popular, and the person who could hold a Big Brother phone at that time was the true symbol of status, status, and wealth.

In the 1980s, the public price of a mobile phone was 20000 yuan. It should be noted that the monthly salary of ordinary employees at that time was around 50 yuan, but now it has increased by almost a hundred times. If calculated based on this, the price of a mobile phone at that time was equivalent to over 2 million yuan now.

Apple's New PhoneThe most expensive iPhone X was just over 10000 yuan, indicating how wealthy the company was at that time.

In 1987, Big Brother entered China, and in order to achieve mobile communication integration with Hong Kong and Macao, Guangdong took the lead in building 900MHZ analog mobile phones. Motorola also took advantage of this to promote its own mobile phones.

And this heavyweight mobile phone, thick and bulky, looks like a black brick, and weighs over a pound. It has no other function except for making phone calls, and the call quality is not clear, often requiring shouting.

Although the Big Brother has a large volume, its large battery can only maintain a 30 minute conversation after charging, and it takes more than ten hours to fully charge once.

Even so, Big Brother was still in high demand at the time, and even with money, it was not always possible to buy it. There were many people queuing up with money on the street, and they sold out instantly as soon as they started selling.

Moreover, with the rise of Hong Kong police and bandit films, Big Brother has become popular among several film giants, which has led to people vying to imitate them, leading to a serious shortage of goods in the market.

However, the field of communication has been advancing, and with the emergence of 2G networks and more convenient black and white screen phones, the Big Brother disappeared from the market in early 2000.

The Product of the Mobile Telecom Competition - PHS

Speaking of Xiaolingtong, there may be many people who have heard of it, in many 80sIn the memory of post-90s people, the status of PHS is very high. Who didn't want to have a PHS at that time!

In 1996, China Mobile and China Telecom separated, and China Mobile focused on mobile communication business with rapid development momentum. However, due to business limitations, Telecom could only watch China Mobile make big money.

At this point, Xu Fuxin, the director of Yuhang Telecom Bureau, proposed that,By grafting PHS wireless local calls onto a fixed telephone network and using China Telecom's network, the front-end is connected to PHS wireless technology, creating a small mobile phone built on a fixed network.UT StarcomCEO Wu Ying has become a partner of Xu Fuxin.

So, starting from January 1998, the Yuhang area officially opened the Xiaolingtong. In August 2002, PHS was launched in more than 200 places in Chinese Mainland, with more than 6 million online users. In October 2006, PHS users in Chinese Mainland reached a historical peak.

For a moment, all over the country, there were users of PHS, regardless of gender, age, and age. Everyone must have a PHS.

Xiaolingtong has low power consumption, long standby time, good call quality, and more importantly, it has little harm to the human body. It can be used by the elderly, children, and pregnant women.

But since 2008, the number of PHS users has been continuously decreasing, and PHS has also been listed as a depreciated asset. It was not until October 2014 that all PHS base stations were shut down, and the PHS era came to an end.

Big lump computer

In the 1990s, when we were in school, our computers were still very bulky. At that time, we had to wear shoe covers to enter computer classes. Therefore, before computer classes, there would be a group of people in the school hallway borrowing shoe covers.

At that time, the computer screen was still very bulky, and when opened for a while, it would seriously heat up. At that time, I had to wait for a long time to access the internet and had to turn off the computer before playing for long.

At that time, in order to avoid our parents' inspection, we often fanned the computerBlowing the breeze, just to avoid being scolded by parents, I believe most people have experienced such things.

Big lump computer

Afterwards, plasma screens and liquid crystal screens appeared on the market, and these convex displays withdrew from the historical stage.

Home Theater - Videos and Recorders

In the 1980s, people's only entertainment hobby was watching movies, which was a very fashionable entertainment activity at that time. Young men and women were dating, and the cinema was a must go dating destination. Every Chinese New Year, the cinema was filled with people.

At that time, the video studio was the source of spiritual nourishment for that generation, and the dark small houses opened by the streets and deep alleys attracted countless people to go there, playing this mystery thereTo be honest, it is a place where many young people are enlightened by human nature.

The invention of video tapes and recorders also brought movies into the home. At that time, people with video tapes and recorders in their homes were wealthy families and the wealthiest people in that area.

10VCDDVD

The Golden Video Age - VCD

In 1992, I was still working at Anhui TV StationJiang Wanmeng, who saw MPEG decompression technology at the International Broadcasting and Television Technology Exhibition in the United States, collaborated with Sun Yansheng, Chairman of C-CUBE Company, to apply this technology to the electronic market.

Until September 1993, the world's first VCD disc player was born in Hefei, Anhui, named "Wanyan". As soon as VCD machines were put into the market, their sales were exceptionally hot, and later multiple brands emerged.

VCD quickly rose in China in just a few years and became popular worldwide, becoming a major industry with annual sales revenue of over 10 billion yuan.

Even Japan and the United States, which have developed electronic industries, are vying to imitate Wanyan VCD for production.

The only regret is that technically,Wanyan invented the VCD machine, but did not apply for a patent, which led to many companies vying to imitate it. It was not until the emergence of DVD that VCD was also caught up in the rolling tide of history.

epilogue

Although these electronic devices have disappeared, they still hold an irreplaceable position in our hearts, after all, they have accompanied us for countless youth.

Of course, the progress of technology has also changed the diversity of our lives, adding a lot of fun to our monotonous and boring lives, and bringing convenience and speed to our lives.

However, every time I see these old objects, an inexplicable feeling still lingers in my heart, perhaps a memory of my past youth!

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