Rebirth of the Tech Madman

In my opinion, every place that attracts the attention of the world is an excellent display platform... Tang Huan made a calm gesture, In short, I speak for myself.

I would like to hear more about it. Ted Turner nodded curiously.

Tang Huan beckoned, and an assistant immediately brought two handbags.

When Ted Turner saw the portable computer in the first big bag, he laughed, I've seen this kind of personal computer.

Then you carry this small bag and estimate how much it weighs. Tang Huan invited Ted Turner to try it.

Ten pounds. Ted Turner added one last sentence after pondering, No more than 15 pounds.

Your answer is quite reliable. To be precise, it weighs 11 pounds, about 5 kilograms. Tang Huan took the handbag and took out a device that looked like a book but was much larger.

When Ted Turner found that the thing with a metal shell in front of him could be folded, and there was a screen and a keyboard when it was opened, he immediately asked in surprise, This, is this also a computer?

You don't have to doubt, this device is indeed a personal computer. Tang Huan nodded with a smile, his face showing a smug look, Its commercial positioning name is called square \u0026 ;, but we are used to nickname it square \u0026 ;, although It is still a long way from the size and weight of a notebook.

Watching the Fangyuan laptop start up and run a few more programs, Ted Turner was amazed, and couldn't stop saying, It's amazing.

The development of computers is naturally divided into several directions with completely different footholds, since there are those who pursue extreme performance. Then you have to give up this point, and instead pursue short and compact, portable, and this concept was reflected in the Xerox project and; project as early as the 1970s.

The truly commercialized portable personal computer, of course, was the eye-catching one in 1981 that just passed; It's time for the movable step.

But even so, the market reaction is still very enthusiastic. In the eight months after its debut at the West Coast Computer Festival in San Francisco in April 1981, the Osborne I sold a total of 11,000 units. After the factory's manufacturing link was opened up, this year's monthly sales unexpectedly reached an exaggerated peak—10,000 units.

Since the market is so bullish. Then naturally other manufacturers will follow up quickly,

There is no room for Osborn to monopolize this field.

The Osborne first-generation machine, priced at US$1,795, was introduced to the market in the year when it met a rival company;——Because I saw that Apple was so brilliant, so I applied the Roman numeral to it, and I was so fairy-tale . And its market price is very targeted. for $1595.

The Osborne generation machine has two obvious shortcomings, first of all. The display device it uses is a 5-inch or 12-centimeter crt monochrome display; secondly, its floppy disk drive only supports single-sided single-density floppy disks. The capacity is only 90 kb, which is already behind the storage requirements of current mainstream applications.

Therefore, the company aimed at these two points. Corresponding enhancements have been made, the display device is a 9-inch crt monochrome display, which allows users to watch the information on the screen more clearly; the floppy disk drive supports single-sided double-density floppy disks, and the capacity is increased to 191 kb, which meets the needs of more Software requirements for large storage capacity.

Although the weight has reached 13 kg, but with the advantages of price and hardware specifications, the popularity of ; in the market is not worse than ; For example, only care about public relations and marketing, while ignoring quality control.

Seeing that Adam Osborne is still following the original historical track, Tang Huan is very disappointed, but it is his own start-up company, he has no position to make irresponsible remarks, and the other party is a person with a strong personality, There is no need for Zhu Bajie to look in the mirror-he is not a person inside or outside.

Since Adam Osborne is very likely to fail and be eliminated from the market, Tang Huan has to pick up the category corresponding to ;1 in addition to the notebook category in the portable personal computer product line.

Fortunately, Zheru's technical reserves in this field are strong enough, and Tang Huan's holding company Epson and HX-20 and Tandy TRS-80 respectively have quite successful products, and the research and development was completed in one go.

In this way, in the portable category of Fangyuan Computer's product line, in addition to square \u0026 ;, it also added square \u0026 ;, that is, the two small and large personal computers in front of me.

The reason why Tang Huan rolled up his sleeves and went into battle himself after discovering that Adam Osborne's Osborne mud could not support the wall was that he had no choice but to do so.

After Big Blue released the ibm- technical white paper, it is bound to attract a group of gold diggers to adopt this free standard and enter the personal computer industry, such as Paq-Compaq, which was just established this year.

Of course, Tang Huan can incorporate this company in advance, but it doesn't make much sense. This situation is different from Silicon Valley Graphics Corporation and Sun—Sun Microsystems entered the workstation field with its own technology. The strength is far from what Sun, which is still in the founding stage, can compare with.

As the saying goes, current events make heroes, without this Compaq, there will naturally be other people who will respond to the situation, relying on the ibm-this big tree to enjoy the shade, and Dell in the original time and space-Dell is another example.

Therefore, in Tang Huan's view, since Big Blue's free ibm-standard, a son of destiny must be born. It would be better to let Compaq, who knows everything, occupy this pit.

In the ibm-compatible machine war in the original time and space, Compaq finally became the king, and ibm made wedding dresses for others.

Big Blue is a tragedy, but it is precisely because of the vigorous and innovative third-party compatible machine manufacturers like Compaq that it helps IBM- become the market standard that dominates the world.

And this objective result is unacceptable to Tang Huan. On the premise of allowing Compaq to exist, he must spare no effort to attack Compaq, an excellent IBM-accomplice, even though he is a competitor who picked the blue giant's peaches.

How did Compaq become the king?

First, it uses a black box approach that does not touch copyright protection. Cracked the ibm-standard that Big Blue left for himself.

It then designed and built a portable compatible ibm-paq.

As a result, the market sales miracle was created in the first year. 53,000 PCs were sold, generating $11.1 billion in revenue.

This shows how gratifying the space in the portable personal computer market is.

Unfortunately, Osborne is not as competitive as Apple.

Therefore, Tang Huan, who wanted to make a quick start in the field of portable personal computers and earn high-end profits with Fangyuan laptops. I had no choice but to sweep the low-end market. So as not to be taken advantage of by Compaq in vain.

The cpu used in Fangyuan laptop and Fangyuan portable computer is a series of Motorola processors. Because this family is on the premise of the same instruction architecture, from the 32-bit version. The 16-bit and 8-bit versions have evolved, and the hardware configuration is extremely flexible.

More importantly, the cooperative relationship between Tang Huan and Motorola is extremely close. For example, in the field of microprocessors, it is not a simple business relationship, but almost involved in the whole process from design to manufacturing, which can be regarded as half a son.

It is because of Tang Huan's promotion that the development of the computer has greatly exceeded the original level of time and space, and it is now the most successful general-purpose microprocessor on the market.

The French semiconductor factory fab1 has achieved a major technological achievement. With the cooperation of Motorola and Sharp, it has jointly launched a technical manufacturing version.

Made with technology, even when the CPU is idle, it is still in a state of high power consumption, and its power consumption has basically nothing to do with the frequency.

However, with the use of technology, except for the difference between the circuit and the circuit, the other aspects are exactly the same as that of the computer, so its energy consumption has been greatly reduced.

According to the operating speed, there are multiple versions from 8mhz to 20mhz.

In an environment of 25 degrees Celsius, the power consumption of the 8mhz version is only 0.13 watts.

As the operating speed increases, so does the power consumption, but the 20 MHz version is only 0.38 watts.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is definitely the most coveted general-purpose microprocessor that Tang Huan can pursue at the current stage.

One of the major technical difficulties of the second-generation Xiaobawang game console is the heat dissipation. After having it, the problem can be easily solved.

The Fangyuan notebook computer and Fangyuan portable computer also benefited greatly from the addition of the product performance. But in order to establish a cost advantage in the low-end field, the cpu used by the latter is relatively low-grade.

In addition to the difference in the adoption strategy of the microprocessor, another major difference between the Fangyuan notebook computer and the Fangyuan portable computer is naturally the display device.

The latter uses a 9-inch crt monochrome display, while the former is a 320x240 pixel;-electroluminescence display is elds, which is also the mystery of its foldability and greatly reduced weight.

There are many kinds of display technologies, such as the most common at present; ray tube—cathode ray tube is crt, and;;; light-emitting diode display is led and so on.

As for the -crystal - liquid crystal display, which is used in laptops after decades in the original time and space, it is still in the stage of technical research. Naturally, Tang Huan also participated in the research, but it was still too short of a finishing touch and could not be used for Fangyuan notebooks. computer.

Tang Huan had no choice but to give up and chose the elds implementation plan. After all, the title of the world's first laptop computer does not wait for anyone.

In fact, competing for the first place in the industry largely depends on hype, especially in a chaotic industry environment like personal computers.

Take the t1100 launched by Toshiba in 1985, which was widely recognized as the world's first notebook computer in the original time and space, and its title is often omitted by the media, that is, for the mass market. Because it sells for a generally acceptable $1,899.

And the hardware configuration of Toshiba t1100 is also far from the general sense of the notebook computer, the most obvious is the lack of the iconic lithium-ion battery, and this is the technical threshold that Tang Huan is currently unable to cross.

Both Fangyuan notebook computer and Fangyuan portable computer use AC power, and at the same time support the ;;supply——uninterruptible power supply, which is developed for enterprise-level application products such as Fangyuan personal workstations and Fangyuan network servers.

The similarities between the two in terms of hardware configuration are that there is no hard disk, but there is a 35-inch floppy disk drive supporting a capacity of 720 kb, and interfaces including serial ports, parallel ports, network cards, and modems.

Of course, complying with the Fangyuan computer standard is the meaning of the question.

Caressing the aluminum alloy casing of Fangyuan's laptop, Ted Turner felt a little fond of it, so he asked casually, What is the market price of this computer?

US$19,999. Tang Huan replied indifferently, seeing the surprised look on the other side's face, he added, The product I tried is naturally the highest-end model, and the cheapest model should be 10,000 US dollars.

It's so expensive, the customer range of the product is probably very limited. Ted Turner laughed dryly.

Clients from the U.S. government, NASA, the U.S., etc. are waiting for my subordinates to develop them. I just need to help them advertise. (To be continued. (.))

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