Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 440 IBM-PC loses its soul
Not only is the old rival in the game console industry in trouble, but even IBM, the big brother in the computer field, is also making lace news.

In fact, in Tang Huan's achievements in IT siege, squeezing old rivals only accounted for a part.

After all, IT applications can be used almost everywhere, and due to limited knowledge, these companies are still unable to accurately grasp the perfect combination point of technological invention and market demand at the current stage. The oil and water are limited, but Tang Huan can keenly capture the development of the times. The pulse of IT products has greatly expanded the scope of application of IT products.

It can be said that whenever Tang Huan advances his IT solutions to a new field, new opportunities will be created, allowing individuals to see new employment opportunities and companies to discover new ways to make money.

For example, software such as Adobe's Photoshop has given birth to new industries such as desktop publishing and graphic design. Zheru's various computer information management systems led by ERP have brought out a large number of industry consultants, implementation engineers, and service experts.

Therefore, IBM-PC is similar to Atari. Although they have been robbed of their leading position in the industry, they still have a strong business background with a strong background.

Take Big Blue as an example. The launch of IBM-PC has brought positive changes to its financial report. The stock price has climbed from the initial price of 55 US dollars to around 80 US dollars, and the market value has expanded from the original more than 300 billion US dollars. to nearly $500 billion.

You know, the overall economic situation in the United States is still in a depression stage.

Therefore, Big Blue's rise against the market is enough to prove that IBM-PC has achieved success.

Naturally, as the head of the IBM-PC division, Don Estridge has achieved both fame and fortune.Under the vigorous touting of IBM's public relations department, he has become the center of IBM-PC and all media publicity.

Seeing Don Estridge trimmed his hair, dressed up attractively, and put on airs more and more, accepting people's praise with peace of mind, one person couldn't help feeling sour and unable to balance.

This person is the "forgotten name" Liu Gebrecht, a very important chief engineer in the chess project. His relationship with IBM-PC is similar to the relationship between Woz and Apple II. A prototype of the IBM-PC was developed.

After the successful completion of the chess project, Liu Gebrecht, as the chief designer of IBM-PC, received a $50000 bonus from IBM headquarters.

But this method is only an internal recognition of the company. Liu Gebrecht still hopes to get even 15 minutes of public praise, but all the glory is given to Don Estridge.

At the beginning, shortly after the beginning of the chess project, the promoter Bill Lovo was promoted and left the project team. Liu Augerbrecht thought that he would take over Bill Lovo's position logically, but he didn't expect the airborne to come Don Estridge.

Thinking of this knot in his heart, Liu Augerbrecht felt more and more despised, and resentment began to arise in his heart.

In this case, Liu Gebrecht and another long-time partner began to talk about leaving Big Blue and starting a company to design, manufacture and sell the IBM-PC and IBM PC. A circuit board connected to a large computer.

This kind of peripheral product is not difficult in the eyes of Liu Augerbrecht, who has a deep understanding of computers.

So before resigning from IBM, Liu Gebrecht and his colleague established a company called Bridge Technology.

This behavior clearly violates the terms of the employment contract that all IBM employees must sign-all inventions and creations made by IBM employees during their employment belong to IBM.

But Liu Gebrecht and the others invested desperately and brought in another salesman as a partner. Their business plan was to sell this peripheral product to various companies that were selling IBM-PC. .

Papers can't contain the fire, and the situation of Liu Ergebrecht's second career was inevitably brought to light in the end. The bad thing was that the corporate client they contacted took the initiative to report the transaction to IBM.

The company, called TecMar, is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and its founder, Martin Alpert, is a doctor who was impressed by the business opportunities brought by the PC.

This dude once bought two IBM-PCs from a chain store of the "Computerland" company in Chicago, then added a hard disk system, and resold them for a small profit.

Martin Alpert established TecMar with the purpose of expanding this reselling business, and the company's growth rate is somewhat beyond his expectations.

When Bridge Technology called Martin Alpert to recommend a new product that would connect the IBM-PC to an IBM mainframe computer, it revealed that there were more products, being developed by IBM-PC's The chief designer designs and develops, which will put everyone in a favorable position in the market competition.

Martin Alpert was immediately impressed by the functions of these bridge technology products, so he agreed to meet with Liu Augerbrecht and others.

However, just before the meeting, Martin Alpert started to get scared.He suspects that Liu Gebrecht and others are providing him with trade secrets, which may lead to a lawsuit from IBM, and even be implicated in the loss of TecMar, which is growing rapidly.

Martin Alpert wandered between opportunities and risks for a long time, and it was extremely painful.

Finally, Martin Alpert picked up the phone and reported to IBM's security department the meeting he had agreed with Liu Augerbrecht.

Big Blue responded very quickly, and a team of security personnel from IBM immediately arrived in Cleveland by plane and handed Martin Alpert a tape recorder.

On September 9 this year, on a Saturday morning, Martin Alpert met with Liu Gebrecht, who was still an employee of IBM, and his companions.Martin Alpert recorded the conversation as they pitched the new product.

As for the outcome of the matter, it is conceivable that Liu Ergebrecht was fired soon.

At a hastily called meeting, Don Estridge laid out what happened, concluding: "There's a thief in our midst. We fired Liu Augbrecht this morning for trying to send Ohio A company in Cleveland is selling our IBM secrets."

The staff of the IBM-PC department were shocked after knowing this incident. Among other things, the first thing is that IBM-PC lost a technical soul.

And Liu Gebrecht's colleagues - those engineers who have worked in IBM for more than 20 years - inevitably became confused.Why did Liu Gebrecht make such a fuss about his second career?
In the minds of these people, Liu Gebrecht is the best engineer, but he has done this kind of thing. As a colleague, what is the future?
"IBM's personal computer department has been distracted from top to bottom, and it hasn't recovered yet." AMD President Jerry Sanders finished the gossip vividly and concluded.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, AMD, as a third-party chip manufacturer, has seized the business opportunities of chips such as interrupts, DMA, clocks, etc. needed by Fangyuan Computer and IBM-PC. The product does not know how many times it moisturizes.

In addition, the compatible version Intel 8086 produced by AMD has excellent performance in terms of power consumption and clock frequency.

When Intel's supply chain to Fangyuan Computer was lost, AMD also made up the position in time, expanding the proportion of supply, and thus its position in the industry has also been significantly improved.

"You went to IBM for a while, and you brought back such a lace news?" Tang Huan asked disapprovingly.

"Isn't the impact of this incident within IBM important?" Jerry Sanders asked unconvinced, "At least it will slow down the pace of IBM-PC catching up with Fangyuan Computer, Liu Augbleh Turner was the chief architect of the IBM-PC."

"The impact of fart." Tang Huan snorted, "If a small company with weak cohesion may collapse at that time; even a medium-sized company will lose its vitality; but IBM is a huge kingdom. Relative to the whole, he is very small, and he can be touted as a personal hero according to need, but his status and role are not indispensable."

"Okay, let me tell you about other news I heard." Jerry Sanders shrugged, "IBM-PC came out with an enhanced model, which comes with a native hard disk system, but further specifications, I I don't know."

"I've heard that, like the Fangyuan computer, it is equipped with a 10-inch hard drive with a capacity of 5.25 MB." Tang Huan was not surprised by this news at all. Sources, there's no need to make that clear with Jerry Sanders.

"In addition, it is said that the incident of Liu Gebrecht's second career has awakened the senior management of IBM. They plan to launch an IBM mainframe terminal in the form of IBM-PC."

Speaking of this, Jerry Sanders smiled wryly, "I was quite touched after hearing the news, but why are you indifferent? You are indeed the richest man in the United States, so calm."

"Because I don't have to be afraid of IBM now." Tang Huan smiled resolutely. "Besides competition, we also have cooperation. For example, Chinese, Japanese and other Far Eastern languages ​​support technology patents. IBM will ask me."

"I'm not in the mood to study the game between you big companies. I came to you this time to seek financial assistance." Jerry Sanders looked directly at Tang Huan, "We have developed an Intel 80286 compatible The processor already consumes a lot of resources, but if you still want the Intel 80286 with CMOS process, you have to reach out to help."

"No problem." Tang Huan nodded happily, "AMD has a lot of experience in optimizing chips, I believe in your ability, and I am also looking forward to the performance of the CMOS process Intel 80286 in terms of operating frequency and power consumption. .”

"I heard that you have some new sound processing chips and network chips..." Jerry Sanders continued to probe greedily.

"Stop." Tang Huan cut off Jerry Sanders' thoughts with a wave of his hand, "Believe me, you will benefit immensely if you thoroughly understand the design and manufacture of the Intel 80286. After this matter is settled, I will give Your list of other types of chips."

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Tang Huan was not as indifferent to the Liu Augerbrecht incident as Jerry Sanders had seen on the surface.

You must know that Big Blue is definitely a charming employer in the eyes of employees, and Liu Gebrecht, who has served IBM for many years, can also be regarded as a core member of the IBM-PC department, but he still has a heart. Resentment and dissatisfaction, this is unavoidably a bit intriguing.

Tang Huan knew very well that his company still had a long way to go from established companies like IBM in terms of qualifications, status, and sense of honor in the industry, and such software factors could only be caught up step by step. It may happen overnight.

The reason why so many people follow him to the world is mainly because of the hardware factors of real money and the attractiveness of bright prospects. The so-called like-minded people are a bit vain.

Tang Huan is starting many projects, many of which have core figures like Liu Ergebrecht. Once the other party's hearts are not enough and they feel resentment, it will be really troublesome.

Therefore, Tang Huan, who didn't know what to eat, deliberately took the time to pay attention to the company's personnel relations.

Tang Huan was busy eliminating hidden dangers, and resentment began to grow in the backyard. After all, he brought Monica Bellucci by his side in the name of teaching, and his acquaintances knew what was going on in essence.

Ever since, the women who felt sour in their hearts tried to embarrass Tang Huan in their own ways.

Zhao Yazhi was busy recovering after giving birth, so Tang Huan took some time to take care of the baby who was not long after the full moon.

Lin Fengjiao also sent her two sons here, saying that if they didn't spend more time together, the children would no longer know Tang Huan.

Coincidentally, Deng's father was ill, and Deng's mother was really worried, so she temporarily sent a pair of grandchildren to San Francisco, and returned to Baodao by herself.

In other words, Tang Huan had to face six babies at the same time, and his head suddenly became dizzy.

The four big boys would run all over the ground, messing around, and Tang Huan was dizzy seeing it, so he asked the four little guys to form teams in pairs to play basketball games.

While Tang Huan was refereeing the four young players, he observed their tempers.

The remaining two babies were placed in the stroller, and Tang Huan stood by with a feeding bottle.

Not to mention, Tang Huan's arrangement was orderly.Seeing the four clowns pushing and tugging at each other on the field made him laugh out loud, and invisibly gave his brain, which was busy with calculations all day long, a rare rest.

(End of this chapter)