Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 241 Marriage with Hard Disk Ethernet

It has to be said that with Tang Huan's secret support, Madonna's ability to act alone has become stronger and stronger.

Due to her close relationship with the Little Overlord game console, she had an awkward relationship with Warner Bros. Records, so she went to Sire, another record company that Warner Group had just acquired, signed a single contract and released the first A single "Everybody", and quickly became a dance hit, officially established the status of the music scene.

Next, Madonna's goal is naturally to release a record.

"Tang, will you attend the stage performance?" Madonna asked with a charming smile as she sat opposite Tang Huan.

"Should be going, I just took this opportunity to relax." Tang Huan nodded, "I heard that your career has developed well recently, congratulations."

"It's not because of your promotion, "Everybody" was given to me by you." Madonna looked like a well digger when drinking water.

"That's not a big deal, the main reason is that you put in a lot of hard work in arranging music and became famous in one fell swoop, which makes sense." Tang Huan waved his hand, "Besides, I don't have any connections in the American record industry, so even if you want to help , can't help."

"You're already helping me. I've accumulated enough popularity through platforms such as game consoles and the Oakland Raiders football team. Otherwise, the record company wouldn't have looked up to me." Clear, the more she posted up.

It has to be said that even Tang Huan is not immune. He felt happy after being complimented by Madonna, with a smile in his eyes, "It's because you strive for your own success. I remember I said it a long time ago, your achievements are limitless, continue Work hard, my vision for people is as precise as my vision for business."

After listening to Tang Huan's encouragement, Madonna, who was in the midst of various discharges, finally became more serious, and said seriously: "My confidence comes from your respect."

At this time, Adelson came over to congratulate Tang Huan on his great success in this year's COMDEX, and Madonna obediently got up to leave.

"I plan to hold COMDEX twice a year starting next year. The spring exhibition in the first half of the year will be held in New York for the time being. What do you think of this plan?" Adelson quickly talked about the purpose of this trip.

"This idea sounds good. In this way, it will be more attractive to European companies across the Atlantic." Tang Huan nodded. "However, it is really hard to predict the specific situation. We can only wait and see."

"So, I need heavyweight exhibitors to cheer and increase the gold content of the spring exhibition." Adelson laughed, his face full of hope, "Your reputation, and the company under it, are heavyweights ah."

"No problem, I will let my subordinates prepare seriously so that they can participate in next year's COMDEX spring exhibition." Tang Huan agreed without hesitation.

From now on, a large number of new technologies, new products, and new applications will emerge in the entire IT industry. Therefore, even if the exhibition is held more intensively, Tang Huan is confident that the company under his name will not be exhausted.

Adelson didn't know that Tang Huan knew it well, he just thought that the other party was saving face for him, and he was so moved, he repeated "meaningful and so on" several times before continuing to lobby other related parties.

Taking advantage of this gap, Tang Huan took a break, and then went to the EA performance stage to have fun with the people. With the explosive music, he danced with Michael Jackson for a while, which is really a great joy in life up.

After Tang Huan gave a few Xiaobawang Zhangzhongbao to EA's die-hard fans, he had completed his task in this interactive event.

After resting overnight in Las Vegas, Tang Huan returned to Cupertino, Silicon Valley the next day.

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Alan Shugart was also eager to seek cooperation, and soon led the other four Seagate co-founders: Tom Mitchell, Doug Mahon, Finis Conner and Syed Iftikar, from Scotts Valley to Cupertino .

While chatting with these people, Tang Huan couldn't help but secretly lament that in the original time and space, within a few years, this small team would fall apart. Finis Conner and Syed Iftikar left respectively and established companies that produced hard disks, especially Finis Conner. The established Conner Peripherals, known as Connaught, competed fiercely with Seagate technologically, which inadvertently greatly promoted the development of the hard drive industry. This rivalry relationship did not come to an end until the two companies finally merged in 1996.

After visiting the company and letting the people in front of him understand his own strength, Tang Huan changed the topic to the in-depth cooperation between the two parties. He wanted to invest in Seagate, and he had already mentioned it to Alan Shugart. Since they Coming so fast, it shouldn't be too much resistance.

In fact, although Seagate has launched a new product ST-506 - the world's first 5.25-inch hard drive, its market position is still rather awkward. greater than the value of the hardware itself.

Just imagine from the perspective of an individual customer, if the entire 1000G carefully collected video cannot be accessed one day due to a problem with the quality of the hard disk, how will he react.

This is especially true for enterprise users. Employee information, salary data...no matter what, users are more concerned about the reliability of the product, rather than just how much capacity it has.

Compared with various minicomputers, personal computers that have gradually grown up obviously have a better chance of accepting Seagate and its new products.

In short, Seagate needs people's trust in it, and Seagate, which has only been established for more than a year and is still in the early stages of entrepreneurship, cannot easily gain this recognition. But now, Tang Huan and the second-generation Fangyuan Computer have given A perfect opportunity for them.

It was precisely because of this situation that Tang Huan finally got 20.00% of Seagate's shares as he wished, and the marriage was successful.

It can be said that with a reliable hard disk, Tang Huan's database products are even more powerful, and it also lays the foundation for the subsequent graphics and image processing, as well as software with a wider range of applications such as CAD.

Seeing the smug smile on Tang Huan's face, Alan Shugart felt a little uncomfortable. We all started the company last year, but now, the gap between them is too incredible.

However, Alan Shugart, who experienced an unsatisfactory start-up company earlier, quickly drove away the negative emotions in his heart. A partner like Tang Huan who can bring great development opportunities to Seagate is really rare. I believe In contrast, those troublesome face problems are not worth mentioning.

Next, the two parties reached an agreement to set up a joint technical team to be responsible for the research and development of the hard disk expansion card on the second-generation Fangyuan computer platform.

The IDE interface in the original time and space does not have the conditions to appear at this time, and the combination of open slots and expansion cards is the most suitable solution.

Another goal of the two parties is to further improve the reliability of data storage through the cooperation of software and hardware.

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After seeing off Seagate and his group, Tang Huan went to join in the fun and went to the filming set of "Love Killing".

Tam Jiaming, who had not long directed his first movie "The Famous Sword", came to the United States to shoot in order to invite Lin Qingxia to star in the movie, which can be said to be full of sincerity.

Tan Jiaming is recognized as the leader of the new wave of movies, and the film he directed in 1982 in the original time and space, starring Leslie Cheung, Tang Zhenye, Xia Wenxi, and Ye Tong, "Fire Youth" is regarded as the representative work of the new wave of Hong Kong movies, which caused controversy. Also the largest.

In fact, the purpose of Tang Huan's coming here is mainly to see how Lin Qingxia's efforts in transformation have turned out.

He remembered that "Love Killing" was a thriller imitating the style of French movies, and he didn't know how Lin Qingxia would have room to play.

However, after watching it for a while, Tang Huan scratched his head a little bit. As expected of a movie of the New Wave period, it was full of attempts to explore. Apart from seeing the big play art scene, he didn't understand what kind of movie it was. summary of the story.

After inquiring, Tang Huan found out that Lin Qingxia played a female college student named Ivy in the movie. Her roommate's brother Fu Zhuzhong came to the United States to handle affairs and fell madly in love with Ivy.

Fu Zhuzhong is married and has a history of mental illness.He paranoidly believes that Ivy's refusal to agree to his love is because of the obstacle of his wife, so he promises to Ivy that he will remove all obstacles between them.

After returning to Hong Kong from the United States, Fu Zhuzhong suffered a relapse of mental illness, killed his wife, and fled to the United States to meet Ivy.

In fact, Fu Zhuzhong is just wishful thinking, and Ivy doesn't like him at all.

After his courtship failed again and again, Fu Zhuzhong became extremely angry, thinking that Ivy had tricked him and ruined himself. He gradually became resentful and killed everyone in the dormitory.

The corner of Tang Huan's mouth curled up, thinking that it was really scary enough, from the beginning to the end, it killed all directions.

Lin Qingxia took back the script in Tang Huan's hand, and warned coquettishly: "When you come to visit the class, just watch the excitement in a low-key manner, and don't offend people by making random remarks."

"Don't worry, you didn't see it, I only came with a pair of ears." Tang Huan laughed dumbfounded.

"Then what is this?" Lin Qingxia pinched Tang Huan's nose and asked with a charming smile.

At this moment, just as the production manager came over to inform the next set of shots to start shooting, Lin Qingxia quickly let go.

With Tang Huan's current demeanor, wouldn't he be able to achieve his wish if he wanted to keep a low profile? Would he be an ordinary man if he could behave intimately with a big star like Lin Qingxia?
What's more, Tang Huan generously entertained the entire crew, and Tan Jiaming soon found out that this young rich man was the boss of DreamWorks.

It has to be said that TVB has cultivated a large number of artistic talents for Xiangjiang, and Tan Jiaming is from such a background.

He first started from the scene, then served as the location director, until he became the director, and was appreciated by Gan Guoliang, who was the manager of TVB's program department at the time.

Tan Jiaming's work "Stars" in this period won No.3 in the New York TV Festival, which is the first time that a Hongkong TV program has won an international competition.

After leaving TVB and working for Jiayi TV for a period of time, Tan Jiaming entered the film industry and filmed "Famous Sword", which became a landmark event of the New Wave film.

While talking with Tan Jiaming, Tang Huan also discovered another famous figure in the original time and space many years later, art director Zhang Shuping. Of course, he is still just starting out and has no reputation.

Tang Huan was secretly amazed that such an unusual movie had gathered a lot of talents.

Everyone was talking about the rise at the dinner table. Tan Jiaming bluntly said that the film "Love to Kill" followed an experimental route, and he borrowed a lot from French director Luc Godard.

Hearing these words, Tang Huan's heart suddenly moved, and he made a suggestion, "After you return to Xiangjiang, you might as well ask the investor if they are willing to sell the European license to DreamWorks. I have some connections in France, so I might It would be a good thing to find an opportunity to release it, if it succeeds."

To this, Tan Jiaming naturally agreed, while the others glanced at Lin Qingxia, who didn't talk much, from time to time, thinking that Tang Huan's enthusiasm must be for her sake.

After a while, everyone changed the topic to the 17th Golden Horse Awards held in Taiwan at the beginning of this month.

Treasure Island films still have the upper hand. "Good Morning Taipei" directed by Li Xing defeated "Ghost Stories of the Six Dynasties", "Source", "Crazy Robbery", "Wild Man", "Jasmine" and other strong films to become the most powerful film. Best Film, but it failed to win any other important awards, and was not even shortlisted for the Director Award.

This best picture has caused controversy, and the Hong Kong film industry is not happy about it. It can be said that it is not interested in it, and it has gradually begun to criticize it. They complain that the Golden Horse Award is too high-key, focusing on art over box office, and is even secretly brewing a boycott.

After listening to everyone's discussion, Tang Huan smiled and said nothing.

In the original time and space, in 1981, the mainland established the Golden Rooster Awards in order to encourage films, which virtually increased the urgency of Hong Kong's film industry to establish its own brand.Then, in 1982, the Hong Kong Film Awards were officially born, and the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan could no longer be the only ones.

These Xiangjiang filmmakers are quite united, and they are blamed for some deserted performances in this year's Golden Horse Awards.

For example, last year's Best Actress Lin Fengjiao didn't show up at all.Although Lin Qingxia was on the spot, it is an indisputable fact that she, who was nominated for "Green Blood and Yellow Flower", did not return to Treasure Island.

On the other hand, Xu Feng, the 13th Best Actress, defeated Lin Qingxia and Zhang Sijia with "The Source", and became the second best actress after Li Lihua, Gui Yalei, and Lu Yan, which is really amazing.

But Xu Feng has already married into a wealthy family, so he probably won't have anything to do with movies in the future.

Hearing this, Tang Huan couldn't help rolling his eyes. Although it's not convenient for him to act in movies, he can invest in movies, and he has made great achievements. In the original time and space, "Rolling Red Dust" in 1990 and "Farewell My Concubine" in 1992 ", is the best proof.

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After supporting Lin Qingxia for a while, Tang Huan returned to Cupertino in Silicon Valley.

Accompanied by Simeone, the founder of 3COM, Robert Melancton Metcalf, came to California on the west coast from Marlborough, Massachusetts, on the east coast.

These two were colleagues at PARC back then. In the original time and space, it was at Robert Metcalfe’s suggestion that Simone went to Microsoft and was responsible for the development of office software. This shows the relationship between them, and Tang Huan also It is the use of this network of resources.

As early as PARC, Robert Metcalf invented Ethernet, and then left PARC in 1979 to found 3Com, whose name comes from Computer, Communication, and Compatibility. , can be said to reveal the key to Ethernet.

However, 3Com's situation is similar to that of Seagate, and it also has to face technological competition from the omnipotent IBM.At the same time, in computer academic circles, Ethernet is not favored.

You should know that there are several other implementations in LAN technology, such as token ring, which is very popular, and IBM also supports it.

It can be said that this situation of ice and fire is a reflection of the differences in cognition between theory and practice, academics and business, on the realization principle of LAN technology.

Logically, Ethernet adopts a bus topology and uses Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection——CSMA/CD, which is a bus contention technology of carrier sense multiple access/collision detection.

Between each node on the network, that is, computers, in the process from sending to receiving, a transmission unit will be generated, that is, a data packet-the concept of a frame.

Carrier Sense——CS is carrier sense, which means that any computer connected to the network must listen to the network before sending a frame, and can only send it when it is confirmed to be idle.

Multiple Access—MA means that multiple computers can access the network at the same time, and frames sent by one computer can also be received by multiple computers, which is similar to broadcasting.

Obviously, this way of using the network will inevitably cause frame collisions.

Just like a two-way two-lane, the "frames" of motor vehicles, non-motor vehicles, people, pets, etc. are all scrambling to get on the road, and accidents such as scratches will inevitably occur.

The collision problem cannot be cured, but it can be alleviated through some effective listening/sending strategies. One of the solutions is Collision Detection-CD is collision detection.

It requires the computer to listen to the network while sending frames to determine if a collision has occurred.

If a collision is detected during sending data, the following collision processing operations are performed:

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