Blooming America

Chapter 774

December 31, this day, was the last day of 1971. 1

Wang An finished today's work, then took a sip of the brewed tea, then sat on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest.

Wang An was born in Shanghai in 1920. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the National āotong University with the first grade, and stayed on to teach after graduation. You can still find a picture of him at that time, a little shy, but with raised eyebrows. After the end of the Second World War, Wang An went to Harvard University to study and obtained a doctorate in applied physics in 1948. It was at that time that his interest and talent for electronic computers began to emerge.

After receiving his doctorate, Wang An did not leave. He stayed at Harvard and worked with Howard Aiken to design and manufacture the "Harvard Mark 4" computer-Aiken's first all-electronic computer. This computer, like other similar machines at the time, used magnetic drums as external storage, but the choice of main storage was bothersome. The mercury delay line is slow, and the Williams tube has not yet been put into use. Wang An intends to find another way, starting with magnetic storage. Thus, the magnetic core memory was invented.

In 1951, Wang An left Harvard University and founded Wang An Laboratory (wang-es) with only $600. He also made his first pot of gold by relying on this technology.

This memory Katherine had used it before, but at that time, this technology was no longer Wang An’s technology, but ibm’s technology.

the reason is simple.

Just like Katharine’s complaint about Watson, Wang An originally didn’t intend to sell this technology, but because of IBM’s bī force, the other party finally used his own power to force the other party, so Wang An had to use this technology. Technology sold.

——In 1955, Wang An sold the magnetic core patent to ibm for a price of US$500,000.

But it was this 500,000 US dollars that helped Wang An soar into the sky. He invested the 500,000 USD in his Wangan laboratory and changed its name to Wangan Company. Ten years later, the company's annual sales exceeded one million U.S. dollars. Wang'an Company started slowly.

The principle of the magnetic core is not complicated: the current generates a magnetic field around the wire, which can be used to impart different magnetic field directions to the magnetic ring. Use three wires to pass through a sesame-sized magnetic ring, and use two wires to address, and the third wire is used to read and write data, which can realize 1-bit storage. If you want to store a byte, you need 8 magnetic rings, and if you want to achieve a 1k storage capacity, you need 8192 magnetic rings.

Although the manufacturing process is complicated, magnetic cores were indeed the best storage devices at the time.

Moreover, this can be said to be the predecessor of TusHard Disk Technology.

Although Wang An Computer's stock price is high and the company's profitability is also very good, Wang An always feels uneasy in his heart.

Because he always felt that his current achievements were obtained because of his "being under the fence", Wang An wanted to develop his own perfect computer in his heart.

——Of course, as a sensible person, he knows that his idea is impossible to realize.

Even when Motorola came to him to deal with Catherine's intel, Wang An chose to refuse.

As a Chinese who came from the húnluàn period of the Republic of China, Wang An's mind was more delicate than those of Europeans and Americans. Although it's a bit unpleasant, it's better than others.

Delicate people always think a lot, Wang An is thinking about why Motorola they are looking for themselves. Don't look at it now, it seems that everyone has a feeling of the same hatred and hatred, but even if intel is brought down, Wang An's computer company will find it difficult to get a piece of the pie, and at most it will only get some water.

What's more, Wang An did not think that the other party could compete with intel. The Intel and Ark Group, which had a large number of patents and a large number of talents, were like the sun at the first o'clock, heading towards the top of the sky, unstoppable. , Fearful.

Dark clouds can block the sun, but dark clouds cannot prevent the sun from rising to the top, because the two are not of the same grade at all.

Catherine is already in the middle of the market. Unless Motorola has the momentum to fight for life, it may crush the opponent, but Motorola will not be able to make that determination after all.

Compared with Motorola, Wang An is even more ineligible to compete with Intel. Both Intel and Apple have united a large number of third parties. They want to fight Catherine, that is, to compete with the entire market. Come right.

In Wang An's view, the best way to bring down the opponent is to first pay a big price to draw all the party members around the Ark Group, and then use products with a higher price ratio to crush the opponent.

Motorola has the ability to do this, but they are ultimately a defensive company, not a pioneering company. They must also consider a very important issue that is their current industry. They can't afford to go out and go shirtless.

At this time, Wang An thought of his own son again—the son who was born only two years later than Catherine.

Wang Lie.

But thinking of his son, Wang An couldn't help but sighed.

As the saying goes, people are more dead than people, and you have to shop around.

For a long time, Wang An felt that his son was very good, the so-called "tiger father has no dogs".

But with Catherine's gradual fortune, Wang An began to constantly compare the other party with his own son.

——Of course, there is absolutely nothing comparable.

Of course, Wang An was disappointed in the end. As a result, his requirements for his son became stricter, but he did not expect that his son would become rebellious because of this, and now he kept talking about himself.

It seems... everything started when Texas Instruments and Fairchild fought against the patents of integrated circuits...

The initial argument caused Wang An, a colleague, to notice the gadget called "Integrated Circuit".

But Wang An did not realize the benefits that integrated circuits can bring.

The integrated circuits that first appeared were ridiculous and quite ridiculous.

——The earliest integrated circuit only combines three kinds of electronic components on a small silicon chip, which can be completed by hand. Texas Instruments and Fairchild have been arguing for a while, until they discover that such a technology has been After being registered by someone—that is, Catherine—and the other party authorized them for free, these people didn't care about integrated circuits.

They didn't realize how amazing the integrated circuit is.

Wang An didn't realize it either.

But afterwards, Catherine Edson, who looked very beautiful, very temperamental, and very oriental in Wang An's eyes, slapped these technicians in the face.

Integrated circuits are not only useful, they are also of great use.

The earliest microcomputers were ridiculous things, and such devices could only simply process some documents, and the size of these documents could not exceed 4kb-because the low-end models only had a few kb of magnetic core memory— -Generally speaking, this will only be able to print a sheet of a4 size paper.

This is the earliest Microsoft computer.

But Catherine additionally used a data tape as a storage mechanism, which immediately expanded the capacity, and with the development of memory, storage was no longer taken seriously.

But personal computers with such convenient word processing have become popular.

Wang An was immediately enlightened, and he immediately prepared to develop his own word processing system-wps.

Although a little embarrassing, it is indeed the name.

It's just that Wang An mistakenly estimated the form again at that time.

The introduction of the Microsoft-type computer is almost a crush.

When Wang An's products were put on the market, it was as if a stone was thrown into the ocean, and there was no response at all.

And this incident also greatly frustrated Wang An's stock price.

The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and the rabbit bit people in a hurry. At that time, Wang An was in a hurry. The company’s stock price plunged, causing Wang An’s assets to shrink instantly. At this time, Wang An noticed that there seemed to be nothing but Apple For the company, there is no assembly machine.

In the entire market, apart from various accessory vendors, only Apple sells the entire machine. Many times, when people want to buy a computer that they want, they can only buy spare parts in the market and then go back to assemble it, which is very inconvenient.

Although Tachibana also has such a business, unlike Apple, which has the theme of "fashion" and sells to the masses, Olsen of Tachibana pays more attention to the upper class. He has deviated from Catherine's initial plan and will The business positioning of the entire Tachibana subsidiary is for game developers, software developers and the server market, so it is often difficult and expensive to buy Tachibana’s products in the market.

So, can you do this market?

To be honest, Wang An is very interested in computers. Although microcomputers were not developed by himself, this kind of thing is also very interesting to Wang An.

After conducting a market survey, Wang An sorted out more than 20 different solutions overnight according to the market format, ranging from commercial to home use, according to different systems, different motherboards, and CPUs. Different from other spare parts, this is the division of the market.

This strategy really works.

Wangan Computer Company has assembled many complete machines with warranty, which is much better than the scattered purchases on the market. People don’t have to go to the market to buy those scattered parts, and they can buy Wangan’s complete machines directly. Well, there are many kinds of machines to choose from; because there is a problem in a certain part of the machine, there is no need to repeat the investigation, and then remove the parts and take the warranty. You only need to move the host to the Wangan Computer Company. At the repair shop, they will troubleshoot and repair the machine.

The concept of branded machines was thus born.

And Wang An’s computer company ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has once again skyrocketed...

Thoughts go back to the present.

At this time, snow fell from the sky.

"It's another year..."

He looked out the window.

Although for a Chinese, the chūn festival means the end of a year, but for a businessman, the time in the Gregorian calendar is the most sensitive.

Where will your company go in the end?

Wang An was thinking, but he didn't dare to continue thinking...

...

First today!

There are two more!

Roar~