Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 420 The advent of the super floppy disk
Take the movie "Fang Shiyu" as an example. Many of the characters were played by mainlanders. If it was changed to another film company, it might be stuck in the neck, but the brand of producer Tang Huan and producer Hu Yinmeng Light up, and everything goes well.

The popularity of "Fang Shiyu" in Xiangjiang and Baodao not only allowed it to quickly enter the theaters in Singapore, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian regions, but also broke into the Japanese market.

With "Shaolin Temple" dedicated to the beauty of the former, the more distinctive "Fang Shiyu" was directly selected by Dongbao. In addition to promoting the release of this film in Japan with confidence, it even plans to perform localized dubbing.

The most interesting thing is that Dongbao thinks the episode "Youth Dream" in "Fang Shiyu" is good, and plans to buy its Japanese copyright.
As a result, during the negotiation, Jiang Zhiqiang asked the other party directly, "This song was arranged by our big boss, Mr. Tang. What price do you think is suitable?"

Hearing this, Dongbao shrank back then, and there was no special relationship. Isn't it a joke to want to buy creations from billionaires?

This matter is also reflected from another angle. Compared with Golden Harvest, which entered the Japanese market one step earlier, DreamWorks, which has been secretly supported by a series of companies such as Zheru Japan, Epson, Taito, and EA Japan, is a bit "horizontal". ", Dongbao has no chance to make decisions based on the advantages of its own local households - if you want to cooperate, everyone should abide by the rules and play equally.

After Celine Dion and her entourage were settled, Deng Lijun, who happened to get the news, came to visit. The diva came to Japan mainly to attend a fan meeting.

When Celine Dion and Deng Lijun finished happily, Tang Huan couldn't help interjecting and asked, "Why don't you hold a concert with thousands of people like Xiangjiang and Baodao in Japan? I look forward to witnessing your singing again. Shocking Dongying, I have waited so hard."

"I don't have the ability to do whatever you want in business, so I wouldn't dare to hold a large-scale concert casually." Deng Lijun rolled his eyes at Tang Huan. He had nothing to hide in front of his family, and said some things about his early career in the Japanese music scene. The hard work is not going well, "PolyGram is making plans in this area, I think it is better to be cautious."

"Is the Japanese music scene so xenophobic? You have won the first place on the US Billboard album chart." Tang Huan was quite upset.

"That's just an accidental phenomenon that you fueled. My real album is actually "A Touch of Love". Although it has been well received in all aspects, it can't compare to the top sales of millions of records in the American and Japanese music markets." The modest Deng Lijun took it very seriously.

"In the final analysis, it's because the fame is not as good as those local artists. It has nothing to do with the strength." Tang Huan said sharply, "I'll find a way to make up for this disadvantage."

Deng Lijun glanced at Tang Huan amusedly. Ever since she met the man in front of her, she was able to rely on her to shelter her from the wind and rain. No matter what happened, she didn't need her to support her.I don't know what ghostly ideas will pop up in the other party's wild head.

"You will be 30 years old next year..." Tang Huan mused to himself thoughtfully, but suddenly, he felt the temperature in the room suddenly drop.

Seeing that Celine Dion was making faces at him, Tang Huan quickly turned his eyes to Deng Lijun, who stared at him with a cold face, and said word by word: "What's wrong with me when I'm 30? Don't tell me you're going to die so soon?" Do you think I'm too old?"

Hey, why did you forget that women are very sensitive to age, even family members can't talk nonsense.

Tang Huan, who had a huge head, quickly replied with a smile, "It was just an unintentional slip of the tongue. You are overthinking. In fact, I think we should take this opportunity to plan a meaningful event."

"Inadvertently, it might not be the most sincere idea." Deng Lijun snorted, "And when you said 'take this opportunity to plan a meaningful event', does the chance mean that I am 30 years old?"

"It's over, I was interrupted by you, my train of thought was completely broken, I want to find a quiet place, and think about it." Tang Huan, who was heartbroken, quickly stood up and slipped away.

Seeing Tang Huan leaving in a hurry, Deng Lijun chuckled, "Who bothered you so much, I can arrange my work myself."

"You're not angry." Celine Dion asked with wide eyes, not knowing why.

"Silly girl, my twins are over two years old, so there's nothing to be taboo about." Deng Lijun pinched Celine Dion's cheek with a smile on her face.

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What level did the hardware specifications of the personal computer in 1982 develop to?
According to the statistics of professional computer media, in terms of market share alone in the current market, personal computers of various standards are ranked from high to low: Fangyuan personal computer, IBM personal computer, Apple computer, Commodore computer, Texas Instruments personal computer Computers, Atari 400/800 personal computers and other miscellaneous troops.

It is worth noting that, in addition to Fangyuan PC and IBM PC, many series of products of other microcomputer manufacturers are often not compatible with each other in terms of software, such as Apple's Apple II and the redesigned but already notorious The irredeemable Apple III.

This also shows to a certain extent that many microcomputer manufacturers are either powerless or outdated in thinking, and invest more in hardware than in software.

This also imperceptibly increases the hardware specifications of personal computers in various ways.

现在个人电脑仍然是8位、16位以及32位混合存在的局面，其中8位个人电脑所采用的微处理器，基本上由MOS 6502系列和Z80系列联合把持着，CPU的运行频率不会超过5 MHz，内存容量往往达到最大的支持容量——64 KB。

This is the case for the first generation Fangyuan Computer, the new generation Tangdi Computer, Apple's Apple II, Commodity Personal Computer, Atari 400/800 Personal Computer and other products.

The microprocessors used in 16-bit personal computers are still in a situation of two heroes competing for hegemony - MC68000 series and Intel 8086 series. The operating frequency of the former is about 8 MHz, and the operating frequency of the latter is about 5 MHz.

Thanks to the collective frenzy of the Japanese semiconductor industry, the price of DRAM has dropped again and again. Now the memory capacity of 16-bit personal computers, even the conservative IBM-PC, is 128 KB. As for Fangyuan, which mainly targets enterprises For personal computers, it starts at 512 KB.

The radical performance of Fangyuan PC is of course due to Tang Huan's accurate grasp of market demand and keen insight into the semiconductor memory industry. As a result, corporate customers are willing to buy it, and their own manufacturing costs are also very reasonable.

And from the design of the memory stick and memory slot, the content capacity is too small to justify the cost of this circuit board.

As for the 32-bit PC market, it belongs exclusively to Fangyuan Computer. It’s not that IBM can’t play it, but that Big Blue has a clear division of product lines, and is worried that the overly powerful 32-bit PC will compete with its own high-end products. , so I refuse to accompany Fangyuan Computer's aggressiveness in this field.

It has to be said that this sales strategy formed in the mainframe era has become a big pit for IBM.

Regardless of the fact that Big Blue has successfully entered the personal computer market, it still hasn't figured out the consumer electronics attributes of personal computers—upgrading, upgrading, and upgrading, which will drive the entire market to continuously upgrade with each passing day.

IBM is still holding on to the original idea - after developing a generation of products, it will forcibly divide high, medium and low-end products, and forcefully sell them to customers for a few years to operate personal computers. It can be said that it does not want to make progress. He made all kinds of incredible mistakes, and now he is doing the same thing.

The microprocessor used in Fangyuan's 32-bit personal computer is a full version of MC68000 without any shrinkage. The operating frequency is mainly from 8 MHz to 12 MHz, and there is also a maximum operating frequency of 20 MHz.As for memory, it starts at 1 MB.

Among them, the flagship model—the second-generation Fangyuan Computer Ultra is the most talked about. It adopts a symmetrical multi-processor architecture and is equipped with two complete MC68000s. The content capacity reaches 4 MB. It has become a Fangyuan personal computer and a Fangyuan personal workstation A distinctive link between them.

Fangyuan personal computer is not simply stacking up hardware in order to improve the hardware specifications. It is supported by advanced architecture and powerful software.

Take the current IBM-PC model 5150 as an example, even if it is installed with 1 MB of memory, it is useless. Due to the limitations of the BIOS and operating system, the content space above 640 KB cannot be stored without special means. access.

This phenomenon is similar to the large-memory personal computers in the 21st century in the original time and space. Once the capacity exceeds 4 GB, the 32-bit version of Windows cannot access the excess memory.

Even out of the 4 GB of RAM, only a little over 3 GB is actually used because of BIOS limitations.

However, in the Fangyuan computer standard, there are no such restrictions, all hardware resources can be called up, and there will be no waste.

In this regard, the running performance of the electronic form CGrid is a clear proof. The electronic form files with complex calculation rules can be processed on Fangyuan personal computers with high configuration and ordinary configuration, and the speed can only be described as a world of difference.

In fact, even if users wanted to complain about the excess performance of their PC hardware, there was no chance.

Although Tang Huan did not focus on the graphical user interface as much as Jobs did, he was also advancing step by step in an orderly manner, gradually adding graphical operation elements to his own software.

For example, all of Zheru's commercial software has realized menus, and the operating system FreeDOS is also equipped with a shell similar to the Windows file explorer in the original time and space. With the mouse, it greatly facilitates the user's operation.

And these advanced features consume seemingly remaining hardware resources to varying degrees.

The flexibility of the Fangyuan computer standard also provides great convenience for compatible machine manufacturers to manufacture low-end personal computers. For example, the ISA bus is reduced from 16 bits to 8 bits, and the design of memory sticks and memory slots is directly simplified to soldering. Chip, cancel the real-time clock chip, reduce expansion slots and other shrinking means.

In addition to hardware indicators such as CPU operating speed and memory capacity, with the gradual popularization of hard disks, hard disk capacity has also become an indicator that cannot be ignored in the hardware specifications of microcomputers.

At present, a 10-inch hard drive with a storage capacity of 5.25 MB has become the standard configuration of Fangyuan personal computers.

As the advantages of this external memory became more and more obvious, microcomputer manufacturers such as IBM and Apple had to follow up, driving Seagate's hard disk sales revenue to more than [-] million US dollars.

The maximum capacity of Seagate hard disk has reached 40 MB, but it is much worse than CD-ROM/CD-R, the optical storage form that came out this year.

Compared with these two external storage methods, Floppy Disk - floppy disk is old enough and friendly enough. The most advanced product on the market is Sony's 3.5-inch floppy disk drive and floppy disk system, with a storage capacity of 720 KB and 1.44 MB for both.

Because of its long history, the Floppy market is full of opinions. Almost every personal computer manufacturer has its own standard 5.25-inch Floppy. For example, Woz developed the Disk II specifically for the Apple II.

Therefore, Sony's 3.5-inch Floppy at this stage is still far from the goal of dominating the world.

Judging from the experience of the original time and space, Sony has achieved the ultimate in this type of product, which lasted from the 1980s when it was launched to 2000, until it was replaced by CD-R/CD-RW and USB flash drives.

Therefore, Tang Huan didn't bother to get involved in this business, and just used ready-made products to save worry.

However, the inherent shortcomings of the traditional Floppy, as well as the gap in demand between it and the optical storage CD-ROM/CD-R measuring hundreds of megabytes, forced Tang Huan to develop the idea of ​​​​SuperFloppy, a super floppy disk.

Epson, which has a background in precision processing technology for making watches, successfully completed the task of ZIP super floppy disk assigned by Tang Huan.

The biggest difference between it and the traditional Floppy is that it adopts certain technical concepts in the hard disk field, such as the head and the disk are not in direct contact, while the disk capacity has reached 20 MB, and there is room for further improvement.At the same time, the access speed also exceeds the traditional Floppy.

Tang Huan looked at the hardware and software evaluation report of the ZIP super floppy disk, and nodded with satisfaction.

With this product, the form of external storage for Fangyuan PCs can perfectly cover all the needs of users, and at the same time, it can warn Sony, a supplier, to work harder.

"The drive is $200, and the disc is $20. This is the calculated result." Hideaki Yaskawa handed over another document.

"At this price, corporate customers can fully afford it." Tang Huan put down the file casually, and asked Yaskawa Hideaki, "Can you say we can acquire Yamaha to complement the computer audio application field we are laying out?"

(End of this chapter)