Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 205 The Printer Launches

The construction of the factory area is different every day. When the factory building here is completed, the production line on the other side of the capital has also been completed.

The first batch of workers were selected by thousands of people. These workers, together with some skilled workers from the south of the town, jointly formed a printer production team.

When the production line is installed and debugged, the training of workers has already started.

Workers at this time are actually tired of the previous life.Urgently want to return to normal life and work.Therefore, after getting this job, the enthusiasm for learning is extremely high.

Especially after listening to the descriptions of the Zhennan workers, these people are even more yearning for their future life.

It was under such an atmosphere that the printer entered the trial production stage.When the first batch of equipment was rolled off the production line, everyone present was overwhelmed with excitement.

With the end of trial production, the production line has been adjusted appropriately.Then hit full throttle and produce vigorously.

Zhao Ye is busy with production. The Apple Company of the United States, the Santai Company of the Neon Country, and some channels from our partner countries in Europe have jointly released such a new type of printer.

An unexpected thing happened, when everyone was full of hope to see how big a storm this epoch-making product would cause.The reaction given by the market was extremely flat, and it can almost be said that there were no waves.

Zhao Ye didn't know about this situation yet, but the people from the overseas asset management company became anxious first.

Everyone has placed such great hopes, who would have thought that they would not be recognized by the market, which makes people embarrassing and anxious.

When Zhao Ye heard the news, he was also embarrassed for a moment.Then quickly strengthen your mental construction.

How could such a product be unpopular?
After simple thinking, Zhao Ye thought of several possibilities.

First, there may be a problem with product marketing.Inkjet printers are not a new thing, such products have been around for a long time.However, the current popular printers in the world are not as easy to use as those produced by Zhao Ye and the others.In addition, Chinese people at this time basically sell goods by putting them on the counter and pulling them down, and whether to buy or not is entirely up to the customer's "voluntary".sell?Put it down, our salesperson is a "noble" profession, how can we go all over the street to find someone to introduce?Wouldn't that be a shame.Therefore, it is likely that the overseas asset management company did not do a good job in sales promotion.

Another reason is that computers used with printers are not yet widely available.So there are almost very few cases where individuals buy printers.In view of this situation, Zhao Ye and the others wanted to sell the printers, and their target customers were only some institutions that used computers most frequently.

For example, banks and governments.

After Zhao Ye reflected his opinion, the people from the overseas asset management company immediately adjusted their strategy.Not only did they spend a lot of money on newspapers and other media, but they also sent representatives to specific target users for door-to-door sales.

All of a sudden, the western market seemed to be slowly opened, and the number of orders began to increase little by little.

But it was not enough, at least in Zhao Ye's view, this sales performance was not enough.

But the people of Haizi Company don't think so.After the number of orders reached their psychological expectations, the whole company held a celebration party.

Zhao Ye was sitting in the newly completed new factory building, silently lighting a cigarette, not smoking, just holding it to watch the smoke curling up.

In Zhao Ye's mind, the biggest obstacle for ordinary people or ordinary companies not accepting printers is that there is no personal computer yet.So is he going to launch a personal computer at this time?
Launching such a product has both advantages and disadvantages at this moment in time.Not to mention the advantages, but there are also disadvantages.At this time, the biggest obstacle Zhao Ye is currently facing is that the current international environment is not as open as the future generations.This kind of non-openness refers not only to our opening to the outside world, but also to the opening of foreign countries to us.

The public, especially the foreign public, for such an unfamiliar product and such an unfamiliar country, the degree of recognition is a big problem.Although Zhao Ye established Apple in the United States, he did not intend to "dress up" this company as a United States enterprise.

Zhao Ye thought for a long time, and finally made a decision to launch a small computer.

For this small computer, Zhao Ye's plan is to call it a file manager or something in terms of functions and publicity.

It's called a computer, and many people don't know what it can do.It's not that the public doesn't know that there is a thing called a computer, but that people's cognition and use don't have the concept of personal use of computers at all.Call it a document editor, and everyone will be more clear.At least know what this is for.

Of course, referring to the successful case of Xiaobawang back then, it should be possible to integrate a card reader for game cards on the chassis.Regardless of whether users play games or not, providing one more function can always win more users.

Zhao Ye made a decision and acted immediately.

They have the technology, the key is how to use the technology, and use those technologies.

In this day and age, personal computers are actually unable to advocate and pursue those familiar parameters of later generations.Because users do not understand this at all, and have no relevant experience in use, let alone similar products that can be compared.At this time, computers or document editors should focus more on their functions.For example, the office software that has been widely spread in later generations.

The more Zhao Ye thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, so in the design of the first personal computer, Zhao Ye marked this function.

Then there is fax technology.

Since four or five years ago, the United States and other countries have successively launched fax services on the public telephone system.Therefore, the fax machine is a fashionable product in this era.How does one's own computer utilize such a network service?Zhao Ye also recorded this item in the small notebook.

Then there is the integration of game consoles, plus floppy drives, keyboards and mice, and monitors.A new type of personal computer product was born in Zhao Ye's mind.

The processor uses a processing chip similar to the original game console, but the design has been modified accordingly.The memory and graphics card are basically copied from the configuration of the game console, which is also beneficial for this computer to be compatible with the cassette of the game console.

The hardware part is easy to solve, and the next step is the software part.The operating system has a previously designed version, and there is basically no need for major changes, as long as the fonts of each country's characters are put in, it will be ok.What is really difficult is the design of office software.

Zhao Ye is very clear about the functions that this kind of software needs.Just like now, Zhao Ye is in the system space, looking at the old word and excel while writing project development documents.

The computer configuration of later generations is not comparable to this era.Therefore, Zhao Ye had to make large-scale deletions in the original functions.Just keep some of the most basic functions on it.Of course, in order to be more attractive, some simple charts are still required.

Software development is based on hardware, and what kind of hardware is available is the upper limit of the corresponding software functions.In order to develop this software, Zhao Ye created a computer in the system space, and then ran the software he developed using the system on this computer.

It failed!
The system space is not a panacea. For software, the system is indeed a bit tasteless.But this is not a problem for Zhao Ye, it is nothing more than adding people and machines.The new factory may be lacking, but there is really no shortage of things in this area.

Shuimu University and Beijing University have a lot of experience in software development, which can be used for reference.So Zhao Ye sent an official letter, and a support team of 30 people came after a few days.

Combined with the strength of the software engineers in Zhennan and some talents recruited locally, a software team of nearly [-] people was formed.

Once the people are on the scene, the computer is not a problem.After Zhao Ye sent the project documents, he basically stopped taking care of the affairs here.These people were all familiar with related work, so Zhao Ye didn't need to worry about it.

What Zhao Ye really cared about was how to produce the first personal computer.

In the new factory, the relevant equipment is not complete.Many things have to be supplied by other places.Like chips, there is basically no large-scale production force here.In addition, there are monitors, and the output of Zhennan is really a problem.After these accidents, all kinds of chips, memory, etc. used in computers have not yet been produced here.

This caused Zhao Ye's current difficulties.At this time, it is no longer a small batch production.But if you want to expand the scale, you must get the consent of your superiors, and only then can you arrange production tasks for each supporting factory.

But aside from other things, the current production tasks of the joint factory in Beijing are almost saturated, and it is almost impossible to increase production capacity.

On the other side of Zhennan, there are talents, but limited by the land area, the factory buildings there are really not big, and the production capacity is also very limited.Not only is it limited, but it is currently ramping up production over there, such as monitors. Now there are almost three shifts there, and that's it, the products are still in a state of short supply.

Is it not possible to expand production?
This Zhao Ye really didn't dare to let others do it.Back then, their production plant was moved from Jinling.It is conceivable that almost no company on the mainland can produce qualified displays.

It's not that there is no technology, the key is that the state of the factory is not a normal state.In such a state, it is really difficult to organize production effectively.

Is it possible to move the display factory back?Zhao Ye couldn't help but feel a little undecided.

(End of this chapter)