Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Chapter 330 Computer Market

Ai Rui thought for a while and said: "The main thing is the price! An Apple III costs $3495, and a Commodore 64 computer costs about $600. The price is much more affordable. In the past, there were few computer brands, and customers had few choices. Now the computer brand If there are too many, customers will have more choices, and Apple IIl will gradually lose its appeal."

Bai Zirui and Zhou Jiayi just stayed in Ai Rui's store for the whole morning. About two hours later, Jamie, another partner who runs the store with Ai Rui, came back with a purchase.Compared with Ai Rui, who is good at talking, Jamie is a technical geek, and he chatted with Bai Zirui about many professional computer topics.

The business of Ai Rui's store was very good. Twenty computers of various models were sold throughout the morning, as well as various accessories such as floppy disk drives, magnetic cartridge drives, floppy disks, and storage tapes.

On the way Bai Zirui and Zhou Jiayi drove back to their hotel, Zhou Jiayi asked, "Bai Sheng, are we investigating the market for the computer that our company will launch next?"

Bai Zirui said with some emotion: "Of course, the data on paper cannot fully reflect the vigorous vitality of this industry. Only by walking into such a computer store in person can we deeply understand that a wave of personal computers has quietly arrived. around each of us.

Just this one computer store can sell more than 20 personal computers every day, and Computer Land has 387 franchised stores in the beautiful country, and 167 stores in Canada, Kangaroo Country and other places.

That is to say, only one computer seller, Computerland, sells 100 million PCs every year!Who can say that personal computers are just toys for computer enthusiasts?This is a rapidly rising market! "

The rise of a new industry may take a long time, but when the industrial technology matures and begins to spread, the speed will be unbelievably fast.

In [-], British physicist and electrical engineer Fleming invented the world's first electronic tube, leading mankind into the electronic age.In [-], the transistor, known as "the most important invention of the twentieth century", was launched at Bell Laboratories.

In [-], Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments demonstrated the world's first integrated circuit. On this basis, Robert Noyes improved and invented a commercially-producible silicon integrated circuit. The semiconductor industry entered the "Age of Invention" "Commercial Era".

With the continuous research and research on the electronic technology industry by individual scientific researchers, while making this industry bigger and bigger, it has begun to affect people's lives in all aspects.

By 1982, the electronic technology industry had been developing for 79 years. Like a volcano about to erupt, it had accumulated enough energy and it was time to burst out its industry charm.

With the rapid development of personal computers, many people will face the situation of being eliminated by emerging industries before they realize it.

Just like in later generations, no one thought that the Internet industry could develop so rapidly. It has become popular before people fully understand it. Many people even think that this kind of virtual network is a new type of fraud.

Now personal computers are still looked down upon by those mainframe manufacturers. They have never seriously understood personal computers. They don't know that the market for personal computers is expanding rapidly and will soon become the largest computer category market.

Although Bai Zirui only inspected a store in the computer field in the morning, but from a glimpse, the computer field can sell about 100 million personal computers every year. What about the capacity of the entire market?It must be much bigger!

It should be known that the computer field is not yet the giant of the entire computer sales terminal, and is still in the initial stage of development.

Zhou Jiayi asked, "Bai Sheng, has personal computers become popular in Pretty Country?"

Bai Zirui said with a lot of emotion: "Yes! Pretty Country has become the world's technology center after World War II. Many new technologies and products were born in Pretty Country, so the people of Pretty Country quickly accept new things.

However, in Xiangjiang, personal computers have almost no influence. Except for universities and some enterprises, many ordinary citizens do not know about personal computers.

From another point of view, it is precisely because almost no one uses personal computers in Xiangjiang, which just shows that Xiangjiang contains a vast market, and it is a good opportunity for Dingtian Computer to occupy the market. "

Zhou Jiayi said: "The citizens of Xiangjiang don't have much idea about personal computers, how can the company sell computers to them?"

Bai Zirui said: "This is the time when the company's publicity department plays a role, not only to promote personal computers, but also to popularize related computer knowledge. This will be a long-term process. Our Dingtian computer is still aimed at overseas markets. Especially the pretty market.”

Zhou Jiayi thought for a while and said, "Bai Sheng, personal computers are very different from arcade machines, and the company's previous distributors are not suitable for selling computers."

Bai Zirui said: "I'm also very clear about this, so shall we come and inspect the stores in the computer field today?"

Zhou Jiayi asked in surprise: "Bai Sheng, do you want to buy Computer Park Company?"

Bai Zirui said: "That's right! With the acquisition of the computer field, our Dingtian computer can be opened to the market in the beautiful country, the Canadian country, and the kangaroo country in the near future.

This in itself is a very good investment, and the market size of personal computers will become larger and larger, so the market value of such microcomputer specialty stores for end customers will definitely skyrocket. "

Zhou Jiayi said, "Bai Sheng, what are we going to do next?"

Bai Zirui said: "Of course, I want to make an appointment with the boss of the computer garden company. I want to talk to him about the acquisition."

Zhou Jiayi's ability to work is indeed very strong. On the third day, she helped Bai Zirui make an appointment with William Millard, the founder of the computer garden company, and even helped him prepare a personal profile of William Millard.

In the commercial history of the Pretty Country, William Millard is a very special figure, because few men accumulated so much money in so short a time and lost it so quickly.

William Millard, a college dropout with no formal scientific training, was employed by the Pacific Finance Corporation in his early years, where he was promoted several times as he demonstrated extensive computer skills on the job, but when promoted further, Hemmed in by his lack of a formal degree, he resolutely left Pacific Finance to work as director of data processing in Alahida, California.

Four years later, he left the company again and went to San Francisco as the chief data processing engineer. He once again demonstrated his talent, simplified the operation of government agencies, and improved work efficiency.

Although he worked in the government department with a good salary and security, Millard was determined to succeed in his career since he was a child. He quit his job in the government department and started System Dynamics in 1971, mainly selling products compatible with IBM's products. Communication Terminal, but closed down in the second year.

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