Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 271 Computer Market in 80 Years (Addition 5)

"Hey, Paul, isn't your Microsoft a software company? Does it have a hardware business?"

Sitting in the car heading to Seattle, Carter looked at the report provided by Microsoft, and pointed to the soft card filled in the product name column above the form and asked.

"I wanted to ask yesterday. I remember this is a CPU based on Z80, right?"

"Well, it's mainly for expansion. It is convenient for some machines using mos 6502 chips to use cp/m commercial software, such as the Apple ii you bought before. This machine uses 6502 chips, but cp/m can only be used in z80 Therefore, a chip card equipped with z80 is needed to be inserted into the expansion slot of Apple ii, so that the machine can be controlled by 6502 or z80.”

Paul nodded, and suddenly turned to look at Carter strangely:

"If you want to relax, or if you want color graphics, use 6502; if you want to use text software for office work, use z80! Oh, that's wrong, I sent you five soft cards, haven't you received them? "

"I really don't know about this, maybe after Jon and the others received it, they installed it themselves."

Although I don't know what this thing is, it sounds a lot like Apple's dual system in the future.While lamenting that all appearances have cause and effect, Carter continued to deduce along this line of thought:
"So you said earlier that Apple's order is this?"

"Well, after all, cp/m is more compatible with the basic we provide! If Apple wants to make its Apple ii into a commercial company, it can't get around cp/m, and naturally it can't get around us. Including this software card , which is also the base language that we provide, and then produced by Seattle Computer Corporation.”

"Understood!"

Carter, who felt that he had raised his posture, leaned back on the seat, and now his logic seemed to be gradually becoming smoother.

The so-called mos 6502 chip and Zilog z80 chip are shown according to the information read yesterday.These two chips are actually fakes, one is a copy of Motorola's 6800 chip, and the other is a copy of Intel's 8080 chip.In this era, cheap is king!
Due to the high price of genuine chips, except for some large-scale cooperation, in the minicomputer market, these two A products have almost snatched them all.

Perhaps in the future, it would be a fantasy for a big company like Apple to use scumbag CPUs, but in this year, everything is so natural.

In addition to the ever-changing price being king, Carter also discovered a feature.That is, the computers of this year are generally very open, or called, very easy to DIY.

Basically any computer sold by any company has to be magically changed by the user to look like the computer doesn't even know it.Even in Carter's impression, Apple, which has always been closed source and focused on building its own business ecological cycle, has a very scalable computer.

It is completely different from the closed software and hardware system in the future!
Silently thinking about the computer business situation of this year, Carter compared the current situation with what he knew in the future while doing the disk.Even if you can't find any good opportunities for the time being, it is necessary to be more familiar and understand the market more.

If we blindly guide the business operation of this society according to the impressions of later generations, there may be problems of acclimatization.It's as if if Paul hadn't spoken out in the morning, Carter would never have known that Microsoft had such a history.

Before Gates' knot was untied, he was forced to do the operating system.Maybe it's just typing a line of code, and the face of Kiridale comes to mind once, and people feel a little annoyed. If this continues, the operating system can be made like a ghost!

Between Bellevue and Seattle, there is only one Lake Washington.When the vehicle drove up to the famous Evergreen Floating Bridge, looking at the small yachts parked around and some houseboats built on them, the vehicle came to Seattle before Carter could express his admiration.

This city that made Carter feel a little sad
"Hurry up!"

"what happened?"

Paul didn't understand.

"Don't ask, asking is black history! Hurry up and finish your work and hurry up."

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Microsoft's z80 software card and Seattle Computer's accounting errors are relatively easy to solve, provided there is no financial fraud.It's just that Microsoft's statistics based on language loading are inconsistent with the actual sales of Seattle Computer Company, and there is a certain inventory gap between them.That is to say, Microsoft counted the number of software cards that have not yet been sold into the sales share, and finally divided some more money.

This kind of small problem, after Carter brought the details provided by Microsoft, compared the two, and quickly found out where the problem lies.The next step is to recalculate the accounts, and then just make up for the extra money. It's not a big problem at all.

After spending about an hour reconciling the accounts with scp's financial staff, when the other party took the new statement to report to the boss, Rod Bullock, Carter wandered around the company, looking for information from Paul who disappeared after entering the door.
"Why did you come here?"

Similar to Microsoft, scp is not a big company.Carter quickly found Paul in the crowd.

At this time, Paul was standing behind a programmer, staring at the other's screen with relish.From time to time, I will bow my head and discuss with the other party enthusiastically, or reach out and point to the computer screen to comment and point fingers.
"I can't help you to settle the accounts. Besides, how can I not trust you? With you, the banker, to settle the accounts for me, why should I worry about it? Haha, no, why don't you come out for a walk~"

Hearing Carter's voice, Paul yelled without looking back, and then continued to mutter to the messy-haired programmer:

"Use it like this here, it might be better if you change it like this."

"Oh, are you annoying? It was originally a temporary substitute, and you keep blah blah, why are you doing it?!"

The programmer, who was annoyed by Paul's pressure, slapped the table and got up angrily:
"Here, here is the keyboard! You code!"

"Hey hey, calm down. Patterson, I didn't say you didn't do well! Why are you angry!"

Putting his hands on Patterson's shoulders, Paul apologized with a smile on his face, and comforted Patterson to sit down again.As he sat back in his seat, Patterson caught a glimpse of Carter next to Paul:
"Is this your new Microsoft employee? Look at him, and then at you! They don't have as much trouble as you!"

"Hahaha, I don't understand"

Carter said honestly that he is actually not a real gentleman who watches chess and keeps silent.It is really that the densely packed codes seem to be one head and two big.I just want to force Lai Lai, but I can't say anything.

"Don't understand?! You are not."

Patterson, who was so excited by Carter's words that he almost emoed on the spot, turned around strangely.
"He is our investor, and now the third shareholder of Microsoft. He is indeed not a technician, Carter, let me introduce you, this chicken coop Patterson, a software development engineer. This guy actually built an 8086 chip by himself. operating system."

"No, no, that's temporary, and it hasn't been fixed yet! Paul, you go back and rush Gary, what are you doing with him? After working on a chip adaptation for so long, we've finished developing all the hardware, and his cp/ m can't be carried on the 8086 until now."

"We're in a hurry to test it!"

　Gagen is still two chapters away.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)