Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Just as AT\u0026T will start splitting up its more than 20 subsidiaries in January 1982, the US Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against IBM, which began in 1969, has also been placed on a predictable withdrawal schedule. Read the full text of the latest chapter. Visit:  ·····first release

It is generally inferred from the outside world that this time point is very likely to be January 1982 as well.

During the 13 years when the sword of Damocles hung over IBM's head, the blue giant was trembling.

Even one-time CEO Frank Cary split the entire company's business in two and moved resources other than the mainframe to the General Systems Department in Atlanta, Georgia, in response to a possible spin-off judgment by the Department of Justice.

After entering the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Justice's attitude towards AT\u0026T, which has assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars, has become more and more aggressive, but it has eased towards IBM, which has assets worth tens of billions of dollars.

Especially after Reagan took office, all kinds of signs convinced the top management of the blue giant that they were safe and secure.

And taking 20% ​​of Intel's shares is a sign that this giant in the computer industry has gotten rid of the shackles and tested the reactions of all parties.

Now in Dex, the top management of IBM can't hide their ambitions, and they want to buy Fangyuan Computer Company, a small freshman in the industry.

Tang Huan, who happened to hear this, immediately felt very funny.

In his opinion, although IBM, which was let go by the US Department of Justice, came out of the cage with great momentum, but it is a pity that its teeth are no longer so sharp in the past 30 years.

Seeing Tang Huan's imposing appearance, and the entourage beside him even looked at him with 'show' sarcasm, this IBM executive who was talking about running the train, immediately felt like he was on his back, and asked displeasedly, who are you?

Tang Huan casually pointed behind him, Aren't you planning to buy Fangyuan Computer? I'm Tang Huan, the boss of this company.

So it's you. The other party nodded, and said slowly and confidently, The condition is very simple. Apple Computer, which has already been listed, can be used as a reference.

Don Estel, who was watching this scene from the sidelines, couldn't bear to continue watching his side being so ignorant and arrogant, so he just wanted to smooth things over. After uncovering the matter, he was gently held back by El Lovo.

Seeing Don Esterly looking at him suspiciously, El Lovo smiled meaningfully, and pointed in a low voice,

Let them fight. Maybe your PC division will be more valued than before, and your advice will be heeded more.

Since the first dex, Tang Huan instructed Sheldon Adelson to take advantage of the long-accumulated conflicts among large companies in the computer industry and successfully invite their top leaders to increase the gold content of the exhibition. The CEOs and The president rarely comes to the scene in person.

The group of IBM executives led by Don Esteli really aroused Tang Huan's interest at the beginning, but when he saw that the other party's knowledge was nothing more than that, he became dull.

Anyway, thank you very much for your optimism about the value of Fangyuan Computer Company. In fact, read the full text of the latest chapter. I am also 'very' interested in IBM. txt complete works download Tang Huan waved his hand noncommittally.

What do you mean by 'you're 'very' interested in IBM'? Don't tell me you're still planning to buy us IBM, not to mention whether we agree or not. Are you qualified to care about these tens of billions of assets? He was so choked that he rolled his eyes, and just about to think about it, he saw that Tang Huan had already turned his attention to Don Esterly.

Old friend, do you feel that my personal computer business is getting more and more prosperous? Tang Huan greeted enthusiastically.

Don Estel glanced at Er Lobo, who was planning to watch a good show, and said that this Tang Huan was not at all the kind of simple person you thought who liked to 'waste' wasteful spitting stars. No, they transferred the firepower directly.

Blooming fire, don't you mean the second-generation Fangyuan computers from Japanese companies? Don Estel was naturally very upset at Tang Huan's condescending attitude. Immediately laughed sarcastically, I don't know when the price war inside Fangyuan Computer will start?

This kind of possible disputes is a small matter. I am a business person who pays attention to sincere cooperation and equal interests. Tang Huan waved his hand disapprovingly, If IBM wants to produce computers compatible with the second generation of Fangyuan. It’s not like we can sit down and talk about it.”

Our own ibm- is already good enough, how can we have time to pay attention to your second-generation Fangyuan computer. Don Estel snorted, turned and left.

Seeing the ibm group leave one after another, Tang Huan snapped his fingers, Don't you know how annoying these guys who came to spy on information? Don't buy anything, don't say anything, and stand here proudly, blocking other real customers.

In the midst of everyone's laughter, Chambers said in a low voice, Don? , the quotations of some models are already lower than our similar products.”

There is no need to be overly nervous. This kind of price squeeze will not have a negative impact on us for at least a year. Tang Huan smiled relaxedly, Apple's success has begun to be weak. I guess it will be able to compete with IBM next year. -It’s good to have a tie, and at that time, these Japanese partners with great cost advantages will rush. The larger the market share of the Fangyuan computer platform, the correspondingly the greater the income of Zheru Software.”

Speaking of this, Tang Huan turned around and looked at the booths of Zheru and Fangyuan Computer, and smiled smugly, We just need to continue to make special computers, just the industry computers in front of us, the latest multimedia computers, and portable computers. , enough to fight for a while.

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Tang Huan's current priority is to acquire Pacific Bell, so he returned to San Francisco from Las Vegas without staying too long in Dex.

Although Tang Huan never deliberately exerted influence, EA, Fangyuan Computer, Zheru and its satellite companies, etc., still attracted enough attention in Dex, and continued to play the role of industry leader.

Among them, the personal workstation ps-2400 series products equipped with and have become a big hit, and there are an endless stream of people who come to consult.

And the growing momentum of the entire camp of the second-generation Fangyuan computer is also a beautiful scenery for Dex.

In addition, the e-mail server system launched by Zheru. It will let people in the industry understand that the network and communication mentioned by Tang Huan in his dex speech are by no means empty talk.

It's just that the actions of the upstarts in Silicon Valley are too efficient. It makes more and more followers feel overwhelmed.

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On Tuesday, December 1, 1981, Tang Huan's acquisition of Pacific Bell, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT\u0026T, was completed in a low-key manner as he requested.

This is so far. The largest asset Tang Huan bought, in order to prevent too much attention from the outside world from interfering with his plan, he carefully chose to avoid the public eye.

In other words, Tang Huan himself felt a lot of pressure.

But with such a large capital operation, how could the media easily let go of the opportunity to report and dig out the details of the transaction announced by AT\u0026T.

Among the more than 20 subsidiaries owned by AT\u0026T, Pacific Bell is the largest, with assets of up to 14.5 billion US dollars, known as a jewel in the crown of the Bell system.

AT\u0026T retained a twenty percent stake. The rest was sold to Tang Huan. Among them, Galaxy Communications paid 10 billion U.S. dollars in a one-time payment, and the outstanding balance payment was deferred.

In the view of AT\u0026T, Pacific Bell is just a piece of candy in its own pocket, and it can be sold as soon as it is wanted. It has nothing to do with others, and the shareholders support it.

And in the matter of being forced to dismantle by the US Department of Justice, the media gloated and deserved their voices, which also made AT\u0026T annoyed and fearful.

The low profile Tang Huan requested was also in line with AT\u0026T's wishes. It just happened to make a fortune in silence, so as not to be roasted by others.

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The 140 new 'Montgomery' Building, completed in 1925, is the headquarters of Pacific Bell, and the topmost offices are ready for the new owner.

Why is this company so expensive. Such fixed assets contained in it are one of the reasons.

After acquiring Pacific Bell, there are many matters to be dealt with, such as trivial things such as the name and trademark of Bell, which have no right to continue to use, and major things such as the company's future development direction.

For the former, Tang Huan swiped his pen directly. Pacific Bell was changed to Pacific Communications; for the latter, Tang Huan had already had a series of goals, which is exactly his motivation for this acquisition.

Pacific Communications now has only two shareholders - Galaxy Communications and AT\u0026T.

In order to reduce his workload, Tang Huan invited two shareholders of Galaxy Communications, Warren Buffett and Motorola's Christopher Gore, into Pacific Communications as executive directors.

Regarding the original structure of Pacific Communications, Tang Huan hardly made any adjustments, because there was nothing wrong with the company's operations, but the original parent company, AT\u0026T, made it so He had a chance.

One of Tang Huan's main actions is to set up a high-level value-added service department under the existing system of Pacific Communications, and make it directly responsible to himself.

There is no doubt that this department of value-added services will be the executor of Tang Huanxin's plan, such as caller ID, email services, etc.

Pacific Communications' business scope is not limited to California, but covers the west coast of the United States, and even includes a subsidiary in Nevada, where Las Vegas is located - Nevada Bell.

After buying things, of course, first of all, he had to personally check the family property. It took Tang Huan more than two weeks to travel around to complete this grassroots research work.

He didn't feel much, but his companions were exhausted. Apart from complaining secretly, they also sincerely admired, The so-called upstarts in Silicon Valley are really misleading people, making them seem like they don't have to work. But in reality Look, this boss is an 'energetic' workaholic.

After knowing the situation of Pacific Communications in his chest, Tang Huan held another meeting at the headquarters to arrange the company's next work.

The CEO of Pacific Communications, Chuck Smith, was an executive in the Bell era, and Tang Huan was quite satisfied with his abilities.

It must be mentioned that Chuck Smith is a black man of African descent, which is rare among American business executives.

Chuck Smith welcomed Tang Huan's caller ID implementation plan with both hands. From this, he even felt that AT\u0026T published I believe that Pacific Bell will develop better and better under the leadership of the new team. His official remarks are not so ridiculous anymore.

But for the free e-mail service proposed by Tang Huan, Chuck Smith expressed clear opposition, because he felt that this business would not only lose money, but also the prospect was very unclear.

Chuck Smith's worry was not unreasonable. Tang Huan naturally didn't take it seriously. He smiled and waved his hand, Then set up an additional new company to test this business. If you don't have the courage to try, you won't know the way Where is it? Pacific Communications cannot fix itself in the traditional business model and not think about making progress.”

They were discussing, the subordinates came to report, and the people from Time magazine came to visit.

Tang Huan nodded slightly. He heard his public relations consultant Regis McKenna mention that Time was debating whether to make himself the Person of the Year in 1981, because they also wanted another goal— Poland's - Lech? Vasa, which led the 1980 strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, was extremely loud.

At this time, Poland still belonged to the Eastern camp. People who went on strike in socialist countries naturally attracted the attention of the West, and some people in Time also favored them.

Made themselves Time's Person of the Year in 1981, because they also wanted another target - 'Poland' - Lech Vasa, who led the 1980 strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, which was extremely loud vast.

At this time, Poland still belonged to the Eastern camp. People who went on strike in socialist countries naturally attracted the attention of the West, and some people in Time also favored them.

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