Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Looking at the back of Don Estridge, an opponent with a western cowboy style, Tang Huan waved his hand with a smile.

Up to now, the affairs of dex this time are almost busy, and we have to continue to follow up the cooperation with Seagate, and its founder Alan Shugart has agreed to visit Zheru company.

According to Tang Huan's vision, the first batch of external self-owned technology partners will choose two, Seagate, which produces hard disks, and 3, which provides LAN technology.

Their products will be connected to the system of the second-generation Fangyuan computer through expansion slots. On the one hand, they can set a model for hardware partners. On the other hand, in case of technical and product problems, they can be replaced relatively easily. were tightly bound together.

Of course, this is just to be on the safe side. In the original time and space, there were basically no major problems in the industrial direction of Seagate and 3, but now there is no one in the waiting room, so I just took advantage of the loophole and established a marriage relationship with them.

While Tang Huan was meditating, suddenly a gust of fragrant wind hit him. He opened his eyes and saw that it was Madonna, whose music career had recently entered a clear upward path, walking forward gracefully.

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 Xiaobawang game console, she had an awkward relationship with Warner Bros. Records, so she went to another record company that Warner Group had just acquired, signed a single contract, and released the first The first single , and quickly became a dance hit, officially laid the foundation of the music scene.

next. Madonna's goal. Of course it's a record.

Tang. Will you attend the stage performance? Madonna sat across from Tang Huan and asked with a charming smile.

Should be going, I just took this opportunity to relax. Tang Huan nodded.

That's true, and I can help. Madonna pulled her feet out of her high heels and gently rubbed Tang Huan's calves under the table.

Tang Huan smiled slightly, I heard that the recent career development is good, congratulations.

It's not because of your promotion, but you gave it to me. Madonna looked like a well digger who never forgets to drink water.

That's nothing. 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 I want to help , can't help.

You're already helping,

Through game consoles, and the Oakland Raiders football team these platforms. I had accumulated enough popularity, otherwise the record company would not have looked at me highly. The clever Madonna. The more Tang Huan cast aside, the more she posted up.

I have to say that even Tang Huan was not exempt from the vulgarity. Being complimented by Madonna, he was in a good mood, with a smile in his eyes, It's because of your own strength. I remember I said it a long time ago, your achievements are limitless, continue Work hard, my vision of seeing people is as accurate as the sunlight of doing 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 another great success in this year's dex, and Madonna obediently got up to leave.

I plan to hold dex twice a year from 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 suitable for European companies across the Atlantic. Tang Huan nodded. However, it is really hard to predict the specific situation. We can only experiment.

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

No problem, I will let my subordinates prepare seriously so that they can participate in the dex spring exhibition next year. Tang Huan agreed without any 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 had a rest, 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 would have completed his task in this interactive event.

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

Of course, Madonna will not let go of any opportunity to serve Tang Huan as her backer.

If it weren't for this powerful young man who had already made it clear about the relationship between the two, Madonna would naturally be willing to go one step further. This is a billionaire.

But she knows the seriousness, being too greedy will backfire and destroy the current harmonious situation. You must know that the career support she has received from Tang Huan is already strong enough.

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Alan Shugart was also eager to seek cooperation, and soon led the other four co-founders of Seagate: ,, and, from Scotts Valley to Cupertino.

When chatting with these people, Tang Huan couldn't help feeling secretly that in the original time and space, within a few years, this small team would fall apart and leave separately. Each set up a company that produces hard drives. In particular, the Connor Company was established. Technologically, Seagate competed fiercely with Seagate, which greatly promoted the development of the hard disk industry. This rivalry did not come to an end until the last two companies merged in 1996.

After visiting the company and letting the people in front of him understand his strength, Tang Huan changed the topic to the deep cooperation between the two parties. He wanted to invest in Seagate. And I mentioned it to Alan Shugart a long time ago, since they came so fast, they shouldn't resist too much.

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 relatively awkward. greater than the value of the hardware itself.

Just imagine from the perspective of individual customers, if there are 1000g carefully collected videos. How will he react when he cannot access one day because of a problem with the quality of the hard disk.

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 him, and Seagate, which has only been established for more than a year and is in the early stage of its business, cannot easily gain this recognition. Right now, Tang Huan and the second-generation Fangyuan Computer have given them Chance.

It is precisely because of this situation that Tang Huan finally obtained 20% 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 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.

Not long after he finished directing his first movie Famous Sword, Tan Jiaming went 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 films, and the film Fire Youth directed by Leslie Cheung, Tang Zhenye, Xia Wenxi, and Ye Tong in 1982 in the original time and space is regarded as the representative work of the new wave of Hong Kong films, and it has caused the most controversy. .

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 and killed his wife. Absconded to the United States and met Ivy.

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

After repeated courtships failed, Fu Zhuzhong was extremely angry, thinking that Ivy had tricked him and ruined himself, and gradually developed resentment, killing everyone in this dormitory.

The corner of Tang Huan's mouth curled up, thinking that it was really scary, from beginning to end. Kill the Quartet.

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 style, it is not possible to keep a low profile. To be able to behave intimately with a big star like Lin Qingxia, would he be an ordinary man?

What's more. Tang Huan also grandly 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 was the director, and was appreciated by Gan Guoliang, then the manager of TVB's program department.

Tan Jiaming's work Stars won the third place in the New York TV Festival during this period. It was the first time that a Hongkong TV program won an international competition.

After leaving tvb and working in Jiayi TV for a period of time, Tan Jiaming entered the film industry and filmed Famous Sword, which became a symbol of new wave movies.

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

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

Everyone talked about it at the dinner table. Tan Jiaming said bluntly that the film Love Killing took 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 earlier this month.

Treasure Island films still have the upper hand. Director Li Xing's Morning Taipei_Beijing beat out strong films such as Six Dynasties, Origin, Crazy Robbery, Country Man, Jasmine and other strong films, and became the most Best film, but did not win any other important awards, not even the director award.

This best film has caused controversy, and the Hong Kong film industry, which is not happy, has lost interest in this, and gradually complained, complaining that the Golden Horse Awards are too few, and that art is more important than box office, and even a boycott is secretly brewing.

After listening to everyone's discussion, Tang Huan smiled and remained silent.

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 Baodao could no longer be dominated by one single company.

These Xiangjiang filmmakers are quite united, and they also talked about some deserted performances at this year's Golden Horse Awards, such as the best actress in the previous year, who didn't show up at all. She was nominated for Green Blood and Yellow Flower and she did not return to Taiwan either.

On the contrary, Xu Feng, the 13th Best Actress, defeated Lin Qingxia and Zhang Aijia with The Source. After Li Lihua, Gui Yalei, and Lu Yan, she was the second actress, 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. It's not convenient for people to act in movies, but they can invest in movies, and they have 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 3, Robert Metcalf, traveled from Marlborough, Massachusetts, on the east coast to California on the west coast.

These two people were colleagues back then. In the original time and space, it was at the suggestion of Robert Metcalf that Simonyi went to Microsoft and was in charge of the development of office software. It can be seen that the relationship between them, and Tang Huan is also It is the use of this kind of network resources.

As early as in the early days, Robert Metcalfe invented Ethernet, and then left in 1979, founded 3 companies, whose name is taken from puter, which is computer, communication and compatibility, which can be called out the ethernet key.

However, the situation of 3 is similar to that of Seagate. It also has to face the technical competition from the omnipotent IBM. At the same time, in the computer academic circle, it is not optimistic about Ethernet. You must know that there are several other implementation methods in LAN , such as token ring, is very popular, and ibm also supports it. (To be continued..)

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