Rebirth of the Tech Madman

"In my opinion, every place where the world's attention is focused is an excellent display platform..." Tang Huan made a gesture of peace and tranquility, "In short, I speak for myself."

"I would like to hear more." Ted Turner nodded curiously.

Tang Huan moved his hand, and an assistant immediately sent two handbags.

After Ted Turner saw the portable computer in the first big bag, he laughed, "I've seen this kind of personal computer."

"Then you carry this small bag, estimate how much weight it has." Tang Huan invited Ted Turner to try.

"Ten pounds." Ted Turner groaned and finally added, "No more than 15 pounds."

"Your answer is pretty reliable. To be precise, it weighs 11 pounds and about 5 kilograms." Tang Huan took the handbag, and then took out a device that looked like the same book but was much larger.

When Ted Turner discovered that the metal casing in front of him was foldable, and there was a screen and keyboard when opened, he immediately asked in surprise, "This, is this also a computer?"

"You don't have to doubt, this device is indeed a personal computer." Tang Huan nodded with a squinted smile, with a smug look on his face, "Its commercial location name is called square&;, but we are used to nickname it square&;, despite its distance The size and weight of the notebook still have a long way to go."

Watching this Fangyuan laptop start up and run a few more programs, Ted Turner can be described as amazed, and said nonchalantly: "It's amazing."

The development of computers is naturally divided into several directions with completely different footholds, since there are those who pursue extreme performance. Then there is to abandon this point and change to the pursuit of being short and sturdy, which can be carried with you. This concept was reflected in Xerox's projects and projects as early as the 1970s.

The truly commercialized portable personal computers, of course, have been eye-catching in the past 1981; 1-Osborne generation machine, with a weight of 107 kilograms, on the road of portability, it is just a way to go. At the "movable" step.

But even so, the market response is still very enthusiastic. In the eight months after its debut at the San Francisco West Coast Computer Festival in April 1981, a total of 11,000 Osborne generation machines were sold. After the factory's manufacturing link was opened up, this year's monthly sales volume unexpectedly appeared an exaggerated peak-10,000 units.

Since the market is so optimistic. Then naturally other manufacturers will follow up quickly, and Osborne will not be allowed to monopolize this field.

The Osborne generation machine, priced at $1,795, met the rival company's when it was introduced to the market;-seeing that Apple was so brilliant, so he applied the Roman numerals and was impressed. . And its market price is very targeted. It is $1595.

The Osborne generation machine has two obvious shortcomings, first. The display device it uses is a 5-inch or 12-cm crt monochrome display; secondly, its floppy disk drive only supports single-sided single-density floppy disks. The capacity is only 90kb, which has fallen behind the storage requirements of current mainstream applications.

Therefore, the company focused on these two points. Corresponding enhancements have been made. The display device is a 9-inch crt monochrome display, which allows users to view the screen information more clearly; the floppy disk drive supports single-sided dual-density floppy disks, and the capacity is increased to 191kb, which satisfies larger Software requirements for storage capacity.

Although the weight has reached 13 kilograms, but with the advantages of price and hardware specifications, the popularity in the market is not worse than;1, and Adam Osborne’s management of Osborne has made frequent mistakes. For example, it only pays attention to public relations and marketing, while ignoring quality control.

Seeing Adam Osborne still following the original historical trajectory, Tang Huan was very disappointed, but it was his own startup company. He had no standpoint to make irresponsible remarks, and the other party was a person with a strong personality. Don’t commit Zhu Bajie to look in the mirror—it’s not a human being inside or out.

Since it is highly possible that Adam Osborne will not escape the failure and be eliminated by the market, Tang Huan has to pick up the category corresponding to 1 in addition to the notebook category in the portable personal computer product line.

Fortunately, Zheru has sufficient technical reserves in this field, and Tang Huan’s holding companies, Epson and; hx-20 and tandytrs-80, are quite successful products, and R&D has been accomplished in one go.

In this way, in the portable category of Fangyuan Computer's product line, in addition to square&;, square&; is also added, which is the two small and large personal computers in front of them.

After discovering that Adam Osborne’s Osborne company mud could not support the wall, Tang Huan rolled his sleeves and went to battle in person.

After the blue giant released the ibm-technical white paper, it is bound to attract a group of gold prospectors to adopt this free standard and enter the personal computer industry, such as the paq-Compaq, which was just established this year.

Of course Tang Huan can incorporate this company in advance, but it is of little significance. This situation is different from Silicon Valley Graphics and Sun. Sun Microsystems enters the workstation field with its own technology, because ibm has set up this bureau. The strength is far from what Sun is still in the founding stage.

As the so-called current events create heroes, without this Compaq, naturally there will be others who will rise to the occasion, relying on the ibm- this big tree to enjoy the shade, the original dell in time and space—Dell is another example.

Therefore, in Tang Huan's view, since the blue giant's free ibm-standard, it is always necessary to give birth to a "son of destiny." It's better to let Compaq, who knows the roots and knows the bottom, occupy this pit.

In the ibm-compatible machine battle in the original time and space, Compaq finally became the king, and ibm made wedding dresses for others.

The Blue Giant is tragedy, but it is precisely because of the vibrant and innovative third-party compatible manufacturers such as Compaq that help ibm-become the market standard that dominates the world.

And this objective result is unacceptable to Tang Huan. He must spare no effort to combat Compaq, an excellent ibm-accomplice, under the premise of allowing Compaq to exist, although it is a competitor who picked the giant blue peach.

How did Compaq get on the road of kings?

First, it uses a "black box" approach that does not touch copyright protection. Cracked the ibm-standard left by the blue giant.

Then, it designed and manufactured a portable compatible ibm-paq.

As a result, the market sales miracle was created in the first year. 53,000 personal computers were sold and revenue reached 11.1 billion U.S. dollars.

This shows that the space in the portable personal computer market is gratifying.

Unfortunately, Osborne is not as confident as Apple.

Therefore, Tang Huan, who wanted to make high-end profits with Fangyuan notebook computers in one step in the field of portable personal computers. Had to clean up the low-end market. So as not to be picked up by Compaq in vain.

Fangyuan notebook computers and Fangyuan portable computers use a series of processors from Motorola. Because this family is from the 32-bit version on the premise of the same instruction architecture. 16-bit and 8-bit versions have evolved, and the hardware configuration is extremely flexible.

More importantly, Tang Huan and Motorola have an extremely close cooperative relationship. For example, in the field of microprocessors, it is not a simple business relationship, but almost the entire process from design to manufacturing, which is considered half a son.

Thanks to the promotion of Tang Huan, the development has greatly exceeded the original level of time and space, and it is now the most successful general-purpose microprocessor on the market.

The French semiconductor factory fab1 has achieved a major technological achievement. With the cooperation of Motorola and Sharp, a technical manufacturing version has been jointly launched.

Manufactured using technology, even when the cpu is idle, it is still in a high power consumption state, and its power consumption is basically independent of frequency.

However, the technology used is completely consistent in other aspects except for the difference between the circuit and the circuit, so its energy consumption has been greatly reduced.

According to the operating speed, there are multiple versions from 8mhz to 20mhz.

In an environment of 25 degrees Celsius, the energy consumption is about 135 watts, while the energy consumption of the 8mhz version is only 013 watts.

As the operating speed increases, the energy consumption also increases, but the 20mhz version is only 038 watts.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is definitely the most coveted general-purpose microprocessor that Tang Huan can pursue at this stage.

One of the major technical difficulties of the second-generation Xiaobawang game console is heat dissipation. With this, the problem can be solved.

The addition of Fangyuan notebook computers and Fangyuan portable computers has greatly benefited product performance. But in order to establish a cost advantage in the low-end field, the cpu used by the latter is relatively low-grade.

In addition to the difference in the microprocessor adoption strategy, another big difference between the Fangyuan notebook computer and the Fangyuan portable computer is naturally the display device.

The latter uses a 9-inch crt monochrome display, while the former is 320x240 pixels;-the electroluminescent display is elds, which is also the mystery of its foldable and greatly reduced weight.

There are many kinds of display technologies, such as the most common ones at present; raytube-cathode ray tube or crt, and;;; light-emitting diode display or led, etc.

As for the original time and space decades later, notebook computers used the same-crystal-liquid crystal display, that is, it is still in the technical research stage. Tang Huan naturally also participated in the research, but he was always in a bad position and could not be a Fangyuan notebook. Used by the computer.

Tang Huan had no choice but to give up and chose the implementation plan of elds. After all, the title of the world's first notebook computer waits for no one.

In fact, to compete for the first place in the industry depends largely on hype, especially in a chaotic industry environment such as personal computers.

Take the original time and space, which was widely recognized as the world’s first laptop-the t1100 launched by Toshiba in 1985. Its title is often missed by the media, that is, "for the mass market." Because its price is generally accepted at US$1899.

The hardware configuration of the Toshiba t1100 is also a distance from the general laptop. The most obvious is the lack of the iconic lithium-ion battery, which is also the technical threshold that Tang Huan cannot pass.

Fangyuan notebook computers and Fangyuan portable computers both use alternating current, and support the development of enterprise-level application products such as Fangyuan personal workstations and Fangyuan network servers; supply——Uninterruptible power supply means ~www.wuxiahere.com~ both in hardware The similarity in configuration is that there is no hard disk, but there is a 35-inch floppy disk drive that supports 720kb capacity, including serial ports, parallel ports, network cards, modems, and other interfaces.

Of course, complying with the Fangyuan Computer Standard is the intended meaning of the question.

Stroking the aluminum alloy case of Fangyuan's laptop, Ted Turner felt a little indifferent, so he asked casually: "How much does this computer sell in the market?"

"US$19999." Tang Huan replied faintly, seeing that the other party looked surprised, so he added, "The product I tried is naturally the highest-end model, and the cheapest model should be 10,000 US dollars. "

"It's so expensive, and the range of customers for the product is probably very limited." Ted Turner laughed dryly.

"Customers from the U.S. government, NASA, the U.S., etc., are waiting for my department to develop. I only need to help them advertise." (To be continued. (.))

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