giants of the era

Chapter 97

Li Zetian glanced at the project proposal, and couldn't help being stunned.

Zhang Hao smiled proudly: "Well, you're surprised, right? Hehe, speaking of it, my inspiration still comes from the Walkman. The Walkman is a portable audio player, so I thought, why can't a personal computer be made into a portable computer? "

Li Zetian smiled when he heard this, and said, "I'm not really surprised!"

"Not surprised? Mr. Li, you are not surprised by such an idea? I came up with this after thinking hard for many days. I think there will be a big market for portable personal computers in the future!"

"The idea is correct, but at present, the hardware conditions cannot meet the requirements!"

After finishing speaking, Li Zetian took out a design drawing from the drawer, "If the technology meets the requirements, I would have taken out this design drawing a long time ago!"

Looking at the design drawings, Zhang Hao was stunned and shocked.

He just proposed an idea, and Li Zetian had already completed the blueprint design!

This is a clamshell personal computer with a shell design, the front part is the keyboard and display, and the rear part is connected to the host.Of course, this design is already the best design that Li Zetian can think of. After the 21st century, the mainframe of the notebook is placed directly under the keyboard, but the current hardware is too large, and the mainframe can only be connected to the back.

Zhang Han sighed slightly, and said, "I thought I was the only one who thought of the design of a portable personal computer. It turns out that Mr. Li, you have thought of it a long time ago, and even designed the blueprint!"

Li Zetian patted Zhang Han on the shoulder and said, "You are still very good if you can think of going with me!"

When Zhang Han heard this, he immediately became happy again. What does it mean to have the same idea as the super genius Mr. Li?It means that I am also a genius, hahaha...

"Mr. Li, is the small word MacBook on the design drawing the name of this portable personal computer?"

"Yes!" Li Zetian said, "The Mac computer Jobs is developing is a desktop computer, while the MacBook is a notebook computer, which is what you call a portable personal computer!"

"Laptop? Well, that's a very vivid metaphor!"

Zhang Hao paused and asked, "Then when will we develop MacBook?"

"In a few more years!"

Li Zetian thought to himself, if the operating system and software are put into the memory ROM of the laptop, its capacity is obviously not enough. The current ROM is only a few tens of KB, and it is very expensive.Therefore, more storage media are required.It is a pity that the hard disk is super large, so this will not be considered.Early notebook computers used floppy drives, and they were 3.5-inch floppy drives.However, the 1976-inch floppy drive was not developed until 5.25, which is larger than the thick "Xinhua Dictionary". Such a notebook computer is not smaller than a desktop computer. Can this still be a notebook computer?
In 1980, Sony was the first to introduce a 3.5-inch floppy drive and floppy disk with smaller volume and larger capacity.Since then, 3.5-inch floppy disks and drives have become popular and become the standard configuration of PCs.This absolute monopoly lasted for more than ten years. It was not until the appearance of CD-ROM and USB storage devices that the sales of floppy disks began to decline gradually.

As a top technician, Zhang Hao naturally understood what Li Zetian was worried about, so he said: "Mr. Li, we can devote ourselves to developing smaller software drivers! On the one hand, this can create revenue for Apple, and on the other hand, it will benefit Apple. Aid in the development of MacBook!!!”

Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, "Well, this is a good idea! Well, let's start building Apple's disk department now!!!"

Zhang Han chuckled and said, "Mr. Li, let Wozniak be in charge of the Apple-lll project. I'll be in charge of developing the floppy drive and MacBook."

Li Zetian said: "You can be in charge of the MacBook, I already have a candidate for the floppy drive!"

"Someone has already chosen? Who is this person?" Zhang Hao asked curiously.

"Hey, Alan Shugart of IBM, the inventor of the floppy disk and the hard disk drive!!!"

"Uh, Mr. Li, are you sure you can recruit such a talent to Apple?"

"Alan Shugart is not a person who is willing to be lonely. Although he works for IBM, he and his friends founded Shugart Associates in 1973, which is a specialized floppy disk manufacturing company. The company's board of directors dismissed him. I believe that as long as the interests are large enough, he will definitely be attracted!"

Li Zetian even knew that Alan Shugart chose to leave IBM and founded the famous Seagate Technology Company!

"Mr. li, I didn't expect you to have investigated him so clearly!"

Li Zetian smiled slightly and said: "Success is not that simple! Didn't someone say that one minute on stage takes ten years of effort off stage. If you want to be successful, you must put in the effort! Alright, I'll do it myself later, Dig the "Father of Disk" into our Apple company!!!"

"Yeah!" Zhang Hao couldn't help but nodded excitedly when he heard the words, and Apple is more and more talented, which is very proud.

……

Li Zetian has already compiled a lot of information about Alan Shugart, so he is full of confidence in this digging!

That night, Li Zetian personally called Alan Shugart.

"Are you Alan Shugart?"

"Yes, are you...?"

"I am Chronos Li, the founder of Apple!"

Alan Shugart was startled when he heard the words, and he didn't speak for a while, secretly thinking, why did the founder of Apple call me?
"Hello, Mr. Li, what can I do for you?"

"Shugart, have you ever considered jumping ship to Apple?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I didn't think about it!"

"Hehe, don't rush to refuse! Please listen to me and tell me my conditions! Apple is planning to establish a subsidiary company specializing in the development of disk drives - Seagate Technology. If you can jump over from IBM, I can Give you an annual salary of $5..."

Hearing this, Alan Shugart's heart tightened. The annual salary of 5 US dollars is astronomical, more than twice as high as his own in IBM!

Before Alan Shugart recovered, Li Zetian continued, "Besides, there is 5% of the shares of Seagate Technology. If you can bring a group of very skilled engineers from IBM, I will also I can add 1% to 2% of your shares, and the more people you bring in, the more shares you have! I can promise these people that their salaries will be at least 20% higher than at IBM!"

Alan Shugart did not speak, and was in hesitation at the moment.

"Mr. Li, I need to think about this matter carefully."

"No problem, I'll wait for you!"

After saying this, the two ended the call.

As a result, Alan Shugart thought about it all night and couldn't sleep.

Li Zetian did not fully count on Alan Shugart. He personally called the outstanding disk development engineers of Sony, DEC and other companies one by one, and also promised high salary and shares, but the number was lower than that of Alan Shugart. a lot of.

There is no wall that does not leak in the world. Some engineers rejected Li Zetian's request, and then told the story of digging the wall. Soon, everyone in the industry knew that Apple was going to enter the disk field.

Alan Shugart didn't hesitate for long, and called Li Zetian on the third day, but he made a request to increase the shares!

"Mr. Li, if you give me 10% of the shares of Seagate Technology, I am willing to join the company, and I can bring at least 10 disk development engineers from IBM!"

"The 10 disk development engineers didn't make up for it?"

"I swear in the name of God, absolutely not, they are all excellent engineers! If you don't believe me, you can test their abilities yourself!"

"Yes, I will!"

Li Zetian said, "I agree to your request!!!"

10% of the shares will be diluted in the future. If Alan Shugart’s shares are too small, he will definitely not work wholeheartedly. He wants the horse to run well and the horse does not eat grass. How can it be so good matter.

A week later, a collective job-hopping incident broke out at IBM.

Alan Shugart took 10 disk development engineers to jump ship to Seagate Technology, which is owned by Apple.At the same time, job-hopping incidents have also occurred in other companies.

IBM suddenly exploded.

"Apple is simply deceiving people!"

"Chairman, what do you say!!"

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　PS: Ask for a ticket, I’m behind again~~~ Codeword in the afternoon, codeword in the evening, it’s so hard, I should be able to write two or three more chapters, please vote!
　　
　
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