Rebirth of the Tech Madman

After Tang Huan gave an enthusiastic introduction, he gave up his seat and invited everyone to experience the powerful functions of EBase on the nearest Apple computer.

The main technicians involved in Apple's three major future projects, such as Apple's third-generation machine engineer Randy Wigginton, Lisa project leader and former HP engineer John Couch, and Anne project leader Jeff Ruskin, were all present Yes, it shows how high the specification of this internal conference is.

Jobs was pointing and talking intimately with a young man with fluffy hair, long beard and energetic face. Tang Huan knew this person, and he was Bill Atkinson.

I have to say that Apple's recruitment work is sometimes messed up by Jobs to produce unexpected results.

For example, the Atkinson in front of me is a doctoral student majoring in neuroscience. Like Jobs, he has tried many hallucinogens.

When Atkinson was initially invited to join Apple, he turned it down. But then Apple sent him a non-refundable ticket, and Atkinson decided to use it to give Jobs a chance to convince himself.

We're inventing the future, Jobs said at the end of his three-hour persuasion. Imagine what it's like to surf at the front of the wave. It must be exciting. Imagine learning to plan with a dog at the end of the wave. Swimming is no fun at all. Come to Apple, you can attract the attention of the world.

So in this way, Atkinson was successfully brainwashed by Jobs and joined Apple.

Atkinson has Woz's creative talent and Jobs' enthusiasm for pursuing excellent products. Soon after entering the company, he successfully ported the Pascal language to the Apple II.

Pascal is a high-level programming language. Jobs resisted it at first because he felt that Apple II had BASIC. I'll give you 6 days to prove me wrong.

Atkinson did it, and since then Jobs has respected him very much, and in Jobs' world view of either a genius or an idiot, Atkinson is undoubtedly classified as a genius.

Currently, Atkinson is the engineer of the Lisa project and accepts the leadership of Jobs, but in fact the person in charge of the Lisa project is the sad reminder of John Couch.

After Jobs ruined the Apple third-generation machine project, he ran to the Lisa project to dictate, and Couch had nothing to do about it.

According to the original historical trajectory, it was not until Markkula and Scott couldn't stand Jobs' arbitrary behavior that Jobs was expelled from the Lisa project.

Then Jobs took a fancy to Ruskin's Anne project and turned it into the famous MAC R\u0026D team.

During these processes, Atkinson has been Jobs' right-hand man in terms of technology.

The reason why Jobs is so tossing is because he has higher ideals.

Although the second-generation Apple machine is extremely popular now, it cannot last forever, and Jobs understood that no matter how he packaged it from the power cord to the chassis, people will always only regard it as Woz's masterpiece.

Jobs needed a computer of his own, a product that would leave its mark on the universe.

Tang Huan can understand this, and he also hopes that Apple can launch a qualified successor to Apple's second-generation machine, but the premise is that the product development process cannot be delayed too much.

If it is like MAC, although it is an epoch-making product, but the time of its release has been delayed again and again, and the performance has obviously fallen behind, then it is better to build a reliable hardware platform, such as Fangyuan Computer.

Seeing Tang Huan approaching, Jobs rarely praised in person, Tang, the performance of EBase is very good, which makes people's eyes shine.

Without waiting for Tang Huan to respond modestly, Jobs used the following words to express the actual relationship between the two.

You should do the promising job of software instead of typewriters and game consoles.

Seeing Jobs' grinning expression, Tang Huan couldn't help laughing.

In order to show Apple's board of directors that Zheru's products would not have a conflict of interest with Apple Computer, Tang Huan deliberately classified Fangyuan Computer as a typewriter, and handed it over to a separate subsidiary to operate it like the Xiaobawang game console.

I hope that like Jobs, Apple directors who hold the same idea will not be jealous of the benefits of these two products in the future.

Regarding Jobs' condescension and arrogance, Tang Huan has always fought back face to face. He stretched out his hand and made a gesture of asking for something, We agreed to visit PARC, why is there no movement? I waited till the flowers withered. , can you handle this matter?

Jobs showed embarrassment on his face, and then turned into annoyance, The people at Xerox headquarters are so damned. Our request for a visit was resisted by PARC, but they couldn't do anything about it. I have given an ultimatum. If you don't let me into PARC in February, don't even think about buying our stock.

I hope as soon as possible. Tang Huan nodded, and raised his hand to beckon the assistant to bring a file bag, which contained a floppy disk for saving WordEasy files and an abstract of the thesis, all sorted out by Simeone, who was born in PARC.

This is the information I gave you about PARC's technological achievements. Take a good look at it. When you go to visit in the future, you can also make it targeted, so that you don't get caught by others and don't know.

Jobs nodded indifferently, took the document bag, and handed it to Atkinson.

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For the two important talents he recruited during his first trip to Asia-Ni Guangnan and Shen Wangfu, Tang Huan would always pay attention to them from time to time.

Under the auspices of Ni Guangnan, the research and development of the Simplified Chinese version of Hanka started to get on the right track, while the Japanese version, because it is easier to recruit relevant talents, is not much slower than the traditional Chinese version that Jian Mingren focused on before, and can fully catch up with COMDEX for display. .

The young Shen Wangfu is also extremely selfless in his work. According to the project direction and ideas given by Tang Huan, he is leading two assistants on the road of sound card research and development.

Seeing that the boss came to give advice and exchange techniques again, Shen Wangfu excitedly asked casually, Mr. Tang, what sound should our sound card make when it first emits sound?

Because of the EEPROM matter, Tang Huan was thinking about going to Intel to investigate the possibility of this new technology being put into practical application. Hearing Shen Wangfu's question, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately said: Of course it is... Dang Dang Dang Dang.

Shen Wangfu sneered, What should be done?

Dang...dangdangdangdang...dang... Tang Huan saw that Shen Wangfu was getting more and more confused, so he quickly stopped talking and said to himself that since you haven't watched A Chinese Journey to the West, you naturally don't know Tang Seng's lines, so you want to say It is too troublesome to understand clearly, but it is still reliable to write.

While the inspiration was still there, Tang Huan hurried back to the office, wrote down the score of Intel's famous sound logo, and without hesitation replaced the slogan intelinside with zeroneinside, and asked his assistant to give it to Chambers. At the same time, he urged: Strive to use this advertising theme on COMDEX.

I don't know how Intel's idea was cut off. How will the Pentium CPU be promoted in the 1990s? The more Tang Huan thought about it, the more interesting he became.

While he was enjoying himself, Jian Mingren made an overseas call, hoping that the US headquarters could support some semi-finished products of Fangyuan Computer, so that a batch of products could be assembled as soon as possible on Baodao.

When Tang Huan heard this, he frowned. American parts are cheaper than Japanese parts. As for being so anxious, the products of Baodao factory will be rolled off the production line in batches soon.

It's the big man's birthday, political achievements need it. Jian Mingren sighed, We have already produced some motherboards, but the production progress of other components varies, so we can only ask the headquarters for help.

So that's the case, I can understand, immediately send someone to transport the things by plane. Tang Huan said.

Aren't you coming to Baodao to see the excitement? The Golden Horse Awards are about to begin. I have received reliable news. Ms. Lin will definitely win the award. Jian Mingren reminded.

I was about to go to Intel to inspect products, and I almost forgot about it. Tang Huan patted his thigh.