Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Bai Zirui's Dingtian Company set up a Mario project, trying to launch it in time for Christmas, to seize the market after Atari's collapse, and to acquire Atari's business that was spun off by Warner, as well as its dealer channels.Starting from the computer field, slowly take the channel directly into your own hands.

Xu Zhihao said: "Bai Sheng, if we cancel those dealers hastily, it will have a great impact on the sales of our company's home game consoles."

Bai Zirui said: "Of course I know. It's not like doing it right away, but as a long-term plan, and the computer garden company will start slowly."

Xu Zhihao understood what Bai Zirui meant, and Bai Sheng was going to start the layout of Dingtian Company all over the world.After Xu Zhihao met Bai Zirui, he left to deal with work matters.

On the second day, Bai Zirui took his assistant Zhou Jiayi and two bodyguards Pan Haizhou and Lu Dongliang to fly directly to John's London. Wang Huageng, the general manager of the computer company who was negotiating with Acorn to acquire the company, came to pick him up.

Bai Zirui asked: "Hua Geng, you have already approached the people from Acorn, what do you think of this company?"

Wang Huageng reported: "Bai Sheng, Acorn is worthy of being acquired. Acorn's atom personal computer developed by Acorn is an imitation of the Apple computer, but the price is very affordable.

Unassembled pieces cost just £150, and the assembled product costs £170.The finished machine is equivalent to about 400 US dollars, which is very competitive in the market.If the user thinks that 2kb memory is too small and not enough, it can be expanded to 12KB at most.

I was also surprised at first that Apple's computers are not much more powerful than Acorn's atom PCs, but their prices are basically thousands of dollars.

Bai Sheng, if Acorn's atom personal computer is only affordable, there is not much to be surprised about. What really shines is that Acorn has developed a local area network. "

Bai Zirui asked suspiciously, "LAN?"

Wang Huageng said: "That's right, I saw them demonstrate with my own eyes. Acorn's technicians networked eight atom computers together, and through a demonstration system, they can freely perform file sharing, remote desktop display and remote control. A series of operations such as keyboard entry."

Bai Zirui has a systematic plan for the personal computers developed by Dingtian Company. The low-end computers are cheap and focus on the education computer market; the mid-range computers are mainly on the business office market with application software; To high configuration, high performance.

Although the research and development of personal computers by Dingtian Company has just started, and the business office software has just been developed into a personal computer electronic graphic form office software RoyalTek-1, but Bai Zirui still made a plan for Dingtian personal computer, and it is slow Slowly, step by step, it will always come true.

In Bai Zirui's view, the world-renowned Apple computer is a low-end machine, although its price is not cheap.The most important customers of Apple Computer are the various primary and secondary schools in the beautiful country.

Acorn's atom computer is very suitable for Bai Zirui's requirements for low-end computers.Not only in terms of price, but the most important thing is the LAN system developed by Acorn, which is very suitable for school teaching.

Teachers can operate students' computers on their own computers through functions such as remote desktop display and remote keyboard input, which will undoubtedly make teaching work easier and more effective.

Bai Zirui asked, "Hua Geng, how is your contact with the founder of Acorn?"

Wang Huageng introduced to Bai Zirui in detail how he met the two founders of Acorn: "Bai Sheng, I and the two founders of Acorn, Chris Curry and Herman Howe Ze will face each other.

When Dingtian Company proposed to buy Acorn in person, Hauser's attitude was indifferent, while Curry was somewhat resistant to the acquisition.

In the course of my conversations with them, I noticed that, in some detail, Houser and Currie had considerable disagreements about the future direction of Acorn. "

Bai Zirui said, "Oh? What's the difference?"

Wang Huageng said: "Curley hoped that Acorn's future development would focus on entering the general consumer market, while Hauser was just the opposite of his idea. He believed that Acorn should be a dedicated laboratory. A computer company in the equipment field."

Bai Zirui fell into deep thought after listening to Wang Huageng's words. What he knew about Acorn, except for the well-known ARM architecture developed by Acorn, was Acorn's atom personal computer. The country is known as "the apple of John's country".

It can be seen from this that Acorn's atom personal computer has a very good performance in the market.If the two founders work together, it will not be easy for Dingtian to complete the acquisition of Acorn.Now that the two founders have obvious differences, they gave Bai Zirui a chance to overcome them.

Bai Zirui asked: "Hua Geng, how much information on Acorn have you collected during this time? Of the two founders of Acorn, who is more supported within the company?"

Wang Huageng said affirmatively: "House! Before Acorn launched the atom personal computer, its main product was a semi-professional computer system for engineering and laboratory users, called Acornsystem, which has been developed from the initial System1 to the present. System3.

Acorn's atom personal computer project was originally developed by Currie and another friend at Currie's home.Later, after Currie resigned from his original company and started working at Acorn, he brought the unfinished atom personal computer research and development project to Acorn. "

However, most of Acorn's R&D personnel dismissed the atom personal computer, and they preferred to continue developing the previous System computer system. "

Bai Zirui couldn't help showing a joyful smile on his face, and said with a smile: "So, our company has a great chance of acquiring Acorn?"

Wang Huageng nodded in agreement and said: "That's right, Houser has the support of most of Acorn's employees and is not opposed to being acquired by our company. Curry, who refused to be acquired, is in Acorn's internal situation. It's tough.

The acquisition of Acorn could easily be done if our company made it conditional on supporting Currie's move into consumer PCs for ordinary people. "

Since the atom personal computer launched by Acorn has the title of "John's Apple", it means that this computer must have its uniqueness in the era of eight-bit personal computers.

Developing a personal computer in the 80s was not very difficult, but it was like a game of accumulation.This is not to say that if you save a computer casually, you can go to the market to make money.Is the machine configuration reasonable?Is it cheap?will determine the ultimate success or failure of the product.

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