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Chapter 320 Participating in the CES Exhibition
Since the old man said so, everyone in the meeting naturally had no objection.Just take a look. New China has been established for more than 30 years. What storms and waves have you not experienced?Many facts have proved that the old man has a unique vision.

These are not what Bai Zirui knows, and he and Peng Feng lead a team to Las Vegas to participate in the CES exhibition. On May 1982, 5, at Xiangjiang International Airport, Dingtian Company directly chartered a Boeing 6 passenger plane from Pan Am Airways.

Dingtian company participated in the CES exhibition this time and brought 10 arcade machines and 6 small CNC machine tools. Bai Zirui brought the machine tools in the past to exchange some patents and technologies from those old and well-known enterprises.

There are 300 Walkmans, two of which are upgraded versions. They are products designed by Liang Jinghua, and their functions have been upgraded to a certain extent.Compared with the previously produced Walkman, a small flashlight is added, which can be used for lighting when there is no light outdoors.

There is also Dingtian Software Company, which is responsible for the development of the first software, RoyalTek-1, an electronic graphic form office software for personal computers, which has been developed.

RoyalTek-1 software is the Lotus1983-1-2 spreadsheet software released by Lotus (Lotus) in 3.The world's first spreadsheet software was invented in 1979 by Dan Brick, a young man from the beautiful country. It is the world-famous VisiCalc (Visible Calculation). The VisiCalc spreadsheet is easy to learn and use without programming, so it is very popular among users.

Until the Lotus 1983-1-2 spreadsheet software released by Lotus in 3 appeared.It is much more powerful than VisiCalc, adding a variety of functions, and at the same time integrating functions such as table calculation, drawing, and small database analysis, so it has achieved great success and has been widely used on IBM and its compatible systems. Apps are all the rage.

Lotus Development Corp., which launched the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software, was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with founder Mitch Kapor.

In the mid-80s, Kapoor and Gates were the twin stars of the American software industry. Founded Lotus (Lotus) in 1982 and served as CEO.Launched the "killer application" software Lotus1-2-3 for personal computers. In 1985, Lotus had thousands of employees and was the largest independent software company.It was not until April 1988 that Microsoft surpassed Lotus (Lotus) to become the number one software company.

In 1978, Kapoor met the inventor of the first spreadsheet software, VisiCalc.I also want to develop a similar software in my mind, which can draw the calculation results of the spreadsheet as a graph.

Together with another partner, he developed VisiPlot. VisiPlot was an instant hit, and sales of VisiPlot quickly reached $10 per month.In less than a year, Kapoor and his partners made $1200 million, and Kapoor created the first success of his business career.

In 1981, Kapoor and his partners raised funds to establish Lotus (Lotus) company. In 1983, Lotus (Lotus) company released its first product - Lotus 1-2-3.

This is the first product in the history of software to provide users with shielded help content and attached instructions on disk. Lotus (Lotus) also established a customer support department, which was unheard of in 1983.

Lotus 1-2-3软件每份售价495美金，卡普尔预测，第一年可望达到200-300万美元。没想到第一年的实际收入破天荒地达到5300万美元，第二年飙升至1.56亿美元，第三年更高达2.58亿美元。

Lotus1-2-3上市仅一年，很快打败VisCalc、Multiplan夺得销量第一，成为世界上第一个销售超过100万套的软件。Lotus1-2-3是Lotus（莲花）公司的一款成功的作品，为公司获取了丰厚的利润和较高的知名度。

Relying on the samples of Lotus 1-2-3 software from his previous life, Bai Zirui guided the highly paid engineers hired by Dingtian Software to successfully develop and register the patent for Lotus 1-2-3 software within two months, named it RoyalTek-1, and planned to launch The CES exhibition in Las Vegas was officially launched.

Dingtian Company has 30 employees who went to Las Vegas to participate in the CES exhibition this time. In addition to the past 10 employees from the Xiangjiang head office, there are also 12 sales teams led by the general manager of the pretty country branch, Meng Jianhua, and Other administrative support staff in some companies.

The CES exhibition in Las Vegas was founded in 1967, and this year is the 15th. It has not received enough attention, and it is not as influential as the Berlin exhibition.

Many established big companies would not go all out to invest. Dingtian Company registered and paid the fee as quickly as possible, and chose a seat of 200 square meters on the right hand side of the entrance hall.

The price per square meter of the exhibition hall has reached 3000 US dollars per square meter, and the rent of the exhibition hall alone is 60 US dollars. Dingtian Company spent about 150 million US dollars for this exhibition.

Bai Zirui led a group of Dingtian Company to arrive at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport on May 5th, and Meng Jianhua led the employees of the beautiful country who had arrived in Nevada in advance to pick up the plane.

Beautiful Country is now half of Dingtian Company's home court. After the employees have declared all the goods to the exhibition hall area by truck, they then set up the booth. The time is tight and the task is heavy.

When everyone came to the exhibition hall, the exhibition hall had basically been set up. The design of the exhibition hall this time was provided by Bai Zirui.The entire exhibition hall uses a large number of glass structures, which feels a bit like alien technology in this era.

A TV video recorder was used in the exhibition hall, and the pre-recorded commercials were projected on the largest wall of the exhibition hall and played repeatedly. In order to make the projection clearer, only this wall in the entire exhibition hall had no lights around it.

Dingtian company's exhibition hall is a reception desk as soon as you enter the door, and then walk in from the right, the first part is the arcade game exhibition area.There are a total of 10 arcade machines, 5 each of Great Wall Cube and "Tank Wars", and 20 Great Wall Cube Gameboy handheld game consoles. Each arcade machine occupies an area of ​​8 square meters plus the queuing area.

Some small countries have not introduced the Great Wall Cube and "Tank War" arcade games, let the agents see the strength of Heiyun Company in the game industry.

The second part is the Walkman exhibition area. There are a total of 5 Walkmans, including 2 of the latest styles. The Walkmans are placed on rectangular glass pillars, and lights are specially installed below them. This is the specification for the jewelry displayed by the auction house.Each of these glass columns cost $400 in labor.The rest of the Walkmans are on the shelf for people to enjoy and listen to.

The third part is the exhibition area of ​​small CNC machine tools, which includes a small industrial master machine, and these small machine tools will be demonstrated on-site according to the needs of customers.

The fourth part is the display area of ​​Dingtian software. Bai Zirui asked Meng Jianhua to buy 10 IBM 5150 computers, which were to be used to demonstrate the functions of the RoyalTek-1 software.

The employees of Dingtian Company started to decorate the exhibition hall from the moment they got off the plane, and they also brought in the fixed fast food for lunch in the exhibition hall. The employees watched Bai Zirui sitting on the ground and picking up the lunch box to eat, regardless of his image. People who can be included in the Forbes list are sitting on the ground and eating boxed lunches like them, so why do they have any complaints?

Meng Jianhua was sitting next to Bai Zirui eating with the same lunch box. He saw several female employees of Dingtian Company and said, "Bai Sheng, some of the female employees in our company are not suitable to be hostesses. Do you want to be around here?" Recruit some beauties to act as hostesses."

(End of this chapter)