Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Seeing Tang Huan leave, Robert thought he was discouraged and retreated, so he smiled complacently, According to the current sales momentum, Woz will be able to retire in six months.

If Tang Huan heard this ignorant assertion, he would have to spit on the other party's face.

Don't look at Woz's originality, but it has been sold until the 1990s in the previous life, and in the few years before it was successfully developed and introduced to the market, Apple's main source of income relied on it. This is a veritable evergreen tree , Its ability to absorb gold can be described as a steady stream.

Robert's arrogance will undoubtedly deepen the conflict between Woz's project team and other departments.

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Tang Huan, who was carefree on the surface, left Apple while thinking about the cause of the current situation in his heart.

This should be because I used cheating to obtain 7% of Apple's shares abruptly, and squeezed into Apple's board of directors, and planted the seeds of dissatisfaction in the hearts of some shareholders who thought they were losing money, so So I want to take advantage of this opportunity and plan to put him together.

Originally, with the rapid growth of Zheru, the actual value seems to have surpassed Apple's performance, and these barriers will naturally disappear, but changes in the current situation will always disturb the sensitive nerves of businessmen.

Zheru gave out 20% of the shares in exchange, of which Markkula, Jobs, and Woz each held 3%, and the remaining 11% fell into the name of Apple. Tang Huan's contact immediately gave Tang Huan a faintly detached position in Apple.

Judging from the current perspective, the three founders of Apple clearly benefited from this transaction. And Apple's interest in Zheru was divided, not to mention, even the right to speak was dispersed. What a wonderful thing it would be if Apple currently had a complete 20% right to speak in Zheru.

After the three founders of Apple made personal gains, they even formed a group with Tang Huan on Apple's side, making other people have no right to speak at all.

And with the chaos and disorder exposed by Apple, it also made some shareholders worry. And hope to make changes, but the premise is to change Apple's existing power structure.

Under such an intricate relationship, Tang Huan undoubtedly became the best breakthrough.

After returning to Zheru, Tang Huan had already sorted out the problems, and he went directly to the Apple III software development project team that had withdrawn from Apple a long time ago. I plan to learn about the situation from the technicians working on the front line.

As a result, he found that all the third-generation Apple machines used for debugging programs,

The main case was opened, exposing the circuit boards inside to the air, and the scene was so chaotic.

Aren't you afraid of electronic radiation? It's so exaggerated, you know, what you develop is software, not hardware. Tang Huan laughed and teased these subordinates who were once thrown by him as abandoned children to deal with the situation at Apple.

We found that the heat dissipation of these computers is too poor, and often the program crashes after more than half of the running, and it is a last resort. These employees began to complain, and even worried, This kind of product. Will users buy it? Want to buy it? No way.

That's Apple's business, we don't need to worry about it. Tang Huanyun replied calmly, and then asked. What part of the project are you working on?

Now there are only functional modules that are compatible with the data files of the second-generation Apple. The person in charge brought the development log, Then enter the next development cycle and add new functions.

It seems that if you don't think about it, you can't be a tool. If you don't torture, you can't be a talent. These people's work is progressing well, and Tang Huan looks at it differently.

Stop after you finish the current work, I have other arrangements. Tang Huan ordered casually. Returning the development log to the other party, he inadvertently glanced at the computer magazine that an employee bought on the desk. On the cover is the Apple III.

His heart moved slightly, and he didn't know how the professional media evaluated it. So after asking who it belonged to, I picked it up and looked at it, only to find that it was full of contempt.

The 8-bit cpu—2mhz6502a produced by the second supplier k is adopted, and its design goal is commercial use, and it will become the successor model of the new model.

The underlying system software includes an improved operating system that provides a directory-level file system and supports the Emulation+ feature, and a new compiler is also provided for more powerful programming.

Other functions include: 80-column uppercase and lowercase letters display support, nine-square number keys, real-time date clock support, 6-digit digital-to-analog conversion audio, and 16-color image display capabilities.

Peripherals, built-in 140kb5.25-inch floppy drive, and supports up to three external floppy drives.

One of the most important performance indicators, memory capacity, is 128kb, which can be supported to 256kb through technical support, and even 512kb with special technical means.

Practically speaking, as an 8-bit microcomputer, it is excellent.

But don't forget that Apple is now the leader in the personal computer industry, and its new products will naturally be carefully studied by technology enthusiasts and even competitors in the same industry under a magnifying glass. The only end was the same as the situation on the desk next to Tang Huan. They were cut into pieces and wanted to make slices for research. These people had a clearer and deeper understanding of the possible advantages and disadvantages than Apple itself.

The fact is also the same. While the magazines are spraying their bodies to pieces, all kinds of opinions are also well-founded and completely tenable. In Tang Huan's view, there are so many smart people in the world, and their complaints are all to the point. For example, the three major problems in hardware were all pointed out one by one.

For example, the most obvious point is that there is no cooling fan installed. Of course, this is the design that Jobs required in order to pursue quietness. It can support so many functions, and the complexity of the circuit can be imagined. The large amount of heat generated during work cannot be passed through. The heat sink is passed out, and the magazine editor even joked that eggs can be spread on the metal chassis.

Under the influence of this problem, because Jobs strictly limited the size of the main chassis, the immature 'thin line' wiring technology adopted by the circuit board has also begun to expose its shortcomings. Since the gaps between the lines are quite narrow. When various chips are squeezed on the circuit board and soldered in large quantities, the solder will drip between the circuits that should not be connected, causing serious short circuits in the high temperature environment generated by continuous operation.

In addition, in order to support new functions, a real-time clock chip manufactured by National Semiconductor Corporation of the United States was used, but problems repeatedly appeared on some computers. Although it was not a common phenomenon, it was sprayed more severely.

When Tang Huan saw this, he secretly admired it. The media here in the United States is indeed professional enough, almost hitting the key point every time.

Compared with these hardware defects, the magazines complained and claimed that the compatibility of functions has not been achieved, but it is not so glaring.

Sometimes the power of the media can be terrifying.

In the original time and space, Microsoft's operating system has made a lot of improvements compared to the previous version of XP, but it is too greedy, not to mention high requirements on hardware resources, and frequent problems, and the result was bad-mouthed by the media , and finally ended in embarrassment.

But in fact, the later versions of the operating system are not based on Windows, and users also enjoy the various conveniences brought about.

It is estimated that Apple is still blindly optimistic. I hope Robert will take it easy and don't move too fast.

In the previous life, about 14,000 units of these defective ones were sold, and finally Apple had to replace them for free.

In 1983, when the improved model with all the defects repaired was launched, the planned please allow me to introduce myself again activity was still unable to restore the notorious decline, and at that time 16-bit and compatible computers were popular, and it was lost. Out of the necessity of existence, it was soon stopped by Apple and ended miserably.

Robert, you can jump up and down now, the more you sell, the more troubled Apple will be, and the more you, and your shareholders, will lose your reputation and lose your right to speak, you will eventually have to Rely on brother's software and Woz's to save the market and decorate the stock market.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan couldn't help smiling slightly, and the engineer who bought the magazine saw his boss and technology idol happily flipping through it, so he was also happy, and asked: Boss, what are the problems mentioned in the magazine? , how serious is it?

I guess we will see the outcome next month. Tang Huan smiled playfully, That's why I asked you to stop for a while. I don't want your excellent labor results to be wasted.

Receiving Tang Huan's face-to-face affirmation and praise, these hard-working engineers suddenly felt full of motivation. (to be continued)

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