Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 631 Give You A Good Future
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In Yanjing, Tang Huan was often troubled by big things, but it was small things that came to him and annoyed him.

For example, preparations for the 1986 Spring Festival Gala had already begun, and it was a bit embarrassing for him to ask Tang Huan to send popular artists from DreamWorks to participate.

In front of the new leader of CCTV and director Huang Yihe, he complained directly: "The conditions for this year's Spring Festival Gala are too difficult. I have heard that there is no heating in the cold winter nights. If this is still the case. , I don't want my subordinates to work so hard."

Huang Yihe quickly explained with an apologetic smile: "The choice of performance venue this year was not carefully considered, and the venue conditions next year will not be so difficult."

"I'm going to figure it out first. How should you hire people? Continue as usual." Tang Huan finally gave an ambiguous answer.

It's okay for Gein to have talent. DreamWorks has no shortage of suitable second-tier and quasi-first-tier artists, but if popular artists appear, they have to carefully weigh them.

In addition, CCTV's activities in Xiangjiang are actually very strong, and there is no need for me to be taken advantage of. Some gains and losses still have to be carefully calculated.

As compensation for the cold response to this matter, Tang Huan sent a batch of technical equipment including wireless walkie-talkies to make up for CCTV's backward hardware shortcomings when holding large-scale events.

We are old friends, and we won't be left alone because of this trivial matter, and we will still talk and laugh at the dinner table afterwards.

During the meeting, Tang Huan casually mentioned the color TV center, the new headquarters of CCTV that was about to be completed, and strongly recommended his own office equipment. As a result, this move was joked by the other party as "small fish catch big fish".

Tang Huan called out to Qu and said, "Is it okay to treat one thing with another? After learning that this year's Spring Festival Gala was not going well, I thought that if you had this batch of technical equipment including wireless walkie-talkies at that time, it would definitely work smoothly." It’s easier to do, after all, these things have benefited Hong Kong Media Asia TV a lot.”

Huang Yihe said with emotion: "Actually, we should learn from the experience of successfully organizing large-scale events outside."

"This is not a problem. You can organize people to visit Xiangjiang. After all, although the program is different in form and content, the technical implementation is roughly the same."

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After dismissing the group of visitors, Tang Huan took the time to finish dealing with the affairs at hand, and then left Beijing and went south to hide for a while.

From his hometown of Micheng and Daocheng in Eastern Van Province, to Shanghai, and Yangcheng in the Pearl River Delta, Tang Huan has harvested a lot and the weather is getting warmer, so he can’t help but take a nap and rest more in the White Swan Hotel for a few days.

At this time, from Melbourne, Australia in the southern hemisphere, came the final result of this year's Australian Open - in the midst of all the attention, the 16-year-old Steffi Graf failed to sweep the four Grand Slams with the momentum of a newborn calf The miracle stopped in the semi-finals. The old rivals Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert successfully met in the final, and the former won the championship.

In the world rankings, Steffi Graf also slipped to No. 2, and Martina Navratilova returned to the throne of the king - the WTA professional tennis competition, the competition is so fierce.

For this reason, Steffi Graf choked up with grievances on the phone, Tang Huan hurriedly pretended to be a "confidant brother", and comforted him gently: "Your grades this year are already against the sky, do you really plan to put Heaven pierced?"

Hearing Tang Huan's funny analogy, Steffi Graf burst into tears and laughed, no longer overwhelmed by the momentary victory or defeat.

"I heard from the coaching staff that your toe is injured, so you must pay attention to rest. I may stay in Europe for a while next year, and I'm still waiting to see your performance in the Grand Slam." Tang Huan earnestly said After exhorting, it is considered as the end of the counseling of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

After putting down the phone, Tang Huan couldn't help shaking his head and laughing. Compared with the girls of the same age in DreamWorks Girls' Generation, Steffi Graf was not so innocent. This should be determined by the regular and tense pace of life. , Boring training, intensive competitions, or a short and easy journey to the venue of the competition are all the life content of this talented girl in tennis.

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After lamenting Steffi Graf for being so focused at such a young age, Tang Huan turned his attention to COMDEX, which also just ended.

It has to be said that the richest man is getting lazy. In the past few years, in order to show his importance to COMDEX, he almost never participated in each session. But since last year, the number of absences has increased.

Of course, this phenomenon shows to some extent that Tang Huan's companies are very mature in terms of operating mechanisms, which makes the big boss relaxed.

An intriguing thing has happened recently in the American IT world. Don Esterlich, vice president of IBM and founder of IBM-PC, left his old employer where he had worked for many years...Both he himself and Big Blue actually wanted to handle this matter in a low-key manner, but The media, whose eyes were about to pop out of their sockets for a long time, how could they allow the "quiet resignation" to really happen? It took barely more than 12 hours to investigate this special personnel change to the bottom of it.

Of course, outsiders still don't know what kind of agreement was reached between IBM and Don Estridge.However, judging from the statement issued by IBM, the compliments and blessings to Don Estridge, and Don Estridge's respect for non-competition restrictions, the two parties broke up amicably.

The intriguing thing is that, don't look at Don? Estridge complied with the terms of non-competition, did not go to IBM's old rival Fangyuan Computer Company, but joined OneComputerPerChild-one computer per child, that is, the OCPC plan, and became its principal.

To put it bluntly, in the end, Don Estridge still couldn't escape Tang Huan's palm—from a clear-cut competitor at the beginning to one of Tang Huan's many subordinates, IBM still couldn't get around this circle. Can escape the fate of being slapped in the face!

OCPC plans to operate through an independent non-profit organization and has no direct relationship with Fangyuan Computer Company.

With this point, Don Estridge quietly avoided Big Blue's meticulous and detailed non-competition clauses, and entered the OCPC plan openly, even the sophisticated Big Blue couldn't pick out the reason.

When Don Estridge appeared on COMDEX with a brand new identity, he immediately grabbed a lot of attention that should belong to new technologies, new products, and new applications.

Under such circumstances, his enthusiastic introduction to the OCPC plan naturally attracted greater attention.That kind of high-spirited energy seemed to exceed the original enthusiasm for creating and promoting IBM-PC. The outside world couldn't help but sigh: "Don Esterlich was given a good future and found another spring in his career. What?"

Tang Huan strongly agrees with this argument.In fact, this is also an important reason why Don Estridge was recruited under his command-there is no intrigue in the personal computer market, and the OCPC project dedicated to eliminating the knowledge gap suddenly seems noble, which makes the original mood complicated. Don Estridge, suddenly exploded with great enthusiasm for work.

Perhaps it can be said that this kind of work with pure goals gave Don Estridge peace of mind.

As for the OCPC computer itself, it also occupies a place in COMDEX, especially the integrated USB interface of the prototype, which has attracted widespread attention and unanimous optimism from the industry.

One of the technical features of USB is that it can be cascaded—only one interface can support the connection of multiple devices, so that the seemingly "thin" OCPC computer has flexible device scalability.

It is entirely conceivable that when this interface is popularized on mainstream computer platforms, it will bring a very important change to the design of peripheral peripheral products—including keyboards, mice, game controllers, printers, scanners, etc. The external devices inside will be unified on one interface, which will bring great convenience to users.

It is precisely because of these benefits that manufacturers in the industry have inquired about the authorization fee of the USB interface to evaluate the cost of integrating the USB controller in the future.

However, as the initiator of the OCPC plan, Tang Huan also keenly noticed another more complex development, that is, the OCPC educational computer has been favored by some American politicians.

For a long time, the United States has hoped to influence the hostile camp through technology export within the framework allowed by Batumi.

A small personal computer is not as simple as ordinary consumers see, it objectively promotes the dissemination of media information.The OCPC computer with limited performance is a high-tech device that meets this expectation.

Tang Huan didn't bother to pay attention to such ulterior motives.A hoe can be used for farming, or it can be used as a weapon.How to position is all in one mind, as long as you are willing to pay for my products.

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Although the OCPC computer was involved in some unexpected "cause and effect", the progress of the OCPC project was still very smooth, and Tang Huan was very satisfied.

After thinking about it, he put down the documents in his hand, and turned to his assistant to ask, "How are the preparations for the reception tonight?"

"No problem. The White Swan Hotel has rich experience in this field, and the service level can definitely keep up with it." The other party gave a brief introduction.

"That's good." Tang Huan nodded slightly, "It seems that living here also has unique benefits, and it can save a lot of trouble."

Because he stayed in Yangcheng for a long time this time, Tang Huan planned to hold a reception to socialize and thank him.

While talking, Boss Huo, who hadn't seen him for a long time, came to visit in person.Although this is the opponent's flagship dojo in the mainland, the two of them usually have complicated affairs, and the number of times they can meet here is really very few.

"Are you satisfied with living here?" Boss Huo started with the service quality of his hotel.

"Of course." Tang Huan laughed loudly, and praised sincerely: "I have lived in many world-renowned five-star hotels. The White Swan Hotel is very unique, and it is no worse than others. There is a reception here."

"This evaluation is definitely worth a thousand gold." Boss Huo smiled complacently, and ordered the manager next to him, "Hurry up and bring paper, ink, brush and inkstone, and please keep this evaluation as a calligraphy treasure, Mr. Richest Man."

After exchanging pleasantries, the two turned to the topic. Tang Huan took the lead and asked, "Mr. Huo came to visit in person, is there anything else?"

"There is indeed something, I want to ask if you are interested in participating, it happens that it is convenient to discuss here in the Mainland." Boss Huo no longer polite, nodded and replied: "Orient Overseas Company founded by Dong Haoyun, the ship king, is currently on the verge of bankruptcy, but I am still optimistic about its prospects and intend to take the opportunity to inject funds and get shares."

Boss Huo gave a brief introduction while asking for relevant documents, "Do you want to participate?"

Although Tang Huan immediately understood what was going on, he still carefully read the information sent by the other party. After all, it was rare and detailed.

There must be more than one shipping king family like Christina Onassis in the world. In this field, the Chinese also occupy a place. Bao Yugang from Global Shipping, Dong Haoyun from OOCL, Zhao Congyan from Huaguang Shipping, etc. Is a world class leader.

After entering the 1980s, the world's shipping industry as a whole fell into a downturn. The charter king personally presided over the "abandon ship and land" plan with unparalleled courage. First, he won Wharf from Jardine in 1980; this year he defeated other competitors and won Also dragged down by the slump in the world's shipping industry and caught up in major shareholder infighting, the British-owned business firm Hui Defeng's controlling stake; coupled with its operations in mainland China, it can be regarded as having survived the big crisis without any danger.

On the contrary, OOCL was not so lucky. When the founder Dong Haoyun passed away in 1982 and his eldest son Dong Jianhua took over, he was unable to recover and quickly fell into the quagmire of bankruptcy.

You must know that a business like shipping requires solid political resources. Bao Yugang, Dong Haoyun and others are all guests of the heads of Western powers such as the United Kingdom and the United States, and shipping companies are all operating entities with extremely high debt ratios. Losing Dong Haoyun OOCL, at the helm, suddenly lost the motivation to sail out of the storm.

In fact, against the overall background of the Great Depression in the global shipping industry, the diversification of the former shipping tycoon families to avoid risks may not be a replicable solution. The Onassis family of the ship queen Christina is also With the assistance of Tang Huan, it was one of the examples of successful transformation, and the persistent OOCL has almost lost the best chance to turn around.

Glancing at the huge debt figure of more than 200 billion Hong Kong dollars, Tang Huan closed the document and said calmly: "Mr. Huo is very courageous. He just co-founded Hong Kong Dragon Airlines this year with the wool spinning king Cao Guangbiao and the charter king. Now he plans to buy the bottom line." Invest in the shipping business."

(End of this chapter)