Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 147 You better have it!

Before time travel, Ethan had heard many jokes that hard work and self-discipline can help people succeed.

For example, Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning, Chibaju at four o'clock in the morning, Jakarta at four o'clock in the morning... These successful people who have reached the pinnacle in their respective fields seem to have endless energy and can greet them with enthusiasm. Every day comes.The only difference between them and ordinary people may be that ordinary people do not have a firm will and cannot control their thoughts.

But as people around him refuted the rumors, all this became nonsense.

Vanessa said that Kobe just sometimes got up at four o'clock in the morning;

Yoko Takahashi affirmed that Haruki Murakami likes to sleep at nine o’clock and start at four o’clock, and work for no more than four hours a day. Most of the time, work will be over at around twelve noon;
Principal Wang was even more blunt, telling people not to drink chicken soup blindly, saying that his father does not work so hard every day, but only occasionally works overtime when there are urgent matters.

In his previous life, Ethan took these news for fun, and never thought about finding out the truth of the matter, because it was meaningless, but when he was sitting in the office today, burning the lights at night, he really felt that Vanessa What Principal Wang and the others said was so right.

I have already succeeded, I still work hard to get a der!
It’s better to play a few more games of Genting than memorizing AI chess records every day!

If it wasn't for something urgent, the devil would be willing to fight until dawn with his work!
In the early morning of July 1977, 7, Ethan, who was sitting at his desk, was overwhelmed with emotion.

What gave him the most pain was the pile of documents in front of him that was as high as a hill.

Among them are bound reports, newspapers with black letters on a gray background, research materials with curled footers, and tofu cubes that have been cut out and pasted individually.

Although the sources are not the same and the sources are different, the content published above all point to the same direction, that is, a war that took place in this book in the past 15 years——

The battle of electric Zhuo.

Dianzhuo, in fact, is the future electronic calculator that can be infinitely reset to zero in the hands of the farm aunt. It was first born in John Bull in 1961. It was made of vacuum tubes, cold cathode tubes and decimal counting tubes. The machine produced can support four arithmetic operations.

Its appearance has attracted the attention of the whole world, because this tool can help human beings to complete some complex mathematical calculations in a short period of time, whether it is in people's daily life, or in industrial production and scientific research and development, it is very important. There is a huge room for expansion, so countless companies have entered the market. In the territory of America, the participating giants include General Instrument, Texas Instruments, and so on.

Since the notebooks at that time had passed the post-war reconstruction period smoothly and were advancing on the road of rapid development, they were eager to make breakthroughs in the field of science and technology, hoping to launch some high-tech industries, so when they discovered computing After the device has great application prospects, in the mid-60s, countless companies in the small island country wanted to get a share of it.

For example, in 1964, Hayakawa Electric launched its own product, CS-3A;

Sony also announced its own machine, the MD-7, on the same day;

After that, Canon and Oi Denki were not to be outdone, and successively announced their new products.

If you just look at the news reports, the vast majority of people may think that calculators were a highly competitive Red Sea market at that time, but this is not the case.

When Ethan opened the newspapers of the year, he realized that the so-called fierce competition was all bullshit. There were loud firecrackers, but there were almost no buyers, because the calculators at that time were too big and too expensive.

Although Hayakawa Electric's product is only the size of a cash register, it weighs 25 kilograms and sells for 53 yen; Canon's machine is smaller, but it also weighs 39 kilograms, and the price is 80 yen; The machine is even more exaggerated, with a length and width of more than half a meter!The price of a machine is as high as [-] yen!

Even if this price is placed ten years later, it is still 50.00% of the book's per capita annual income!And in the 60s, not to mention ordinary people, even companies can't afford such a toss!
Therefore, if you want to promote calculators, manufacturers must solve two problems. The first is to reduce the cost as much as possible, and the second is to reduce the weight of the product as much as possible.

These two questions seem to be nonsense, but in the process, they have attracted more than 50 subsidiaries to work hard, and when they discovered that integrated circuits are the answer to the problem, at the end of the 60s, they even cooperated with Ami The companies in Liga have reached a cooperation.

Canon and Texas Instruments join forces;
Marriage between Hayakawa Electric and Rockwell;
Sanyo Electric boarded the big ship of General Instrument;

Busicom and Intel reached a cooperation, using the 4004 chip customized by the other party, but——

"Whoa, Ethan, you called me over all of a sudden just to learn about calculators?"

"Why did you suddenly think of it?"

Four hours ago, in the office of Destiny Games, Steve Wozniak hurried over and looked at the historical documents on Ethan's desk with a strange expression on his face.

When he found out that no matter if it was a magazine or a newspaper, no matter if it was a report or a summary, all the content was related to the calculator, this round-cheeked little fat man suddenly showed a look of surprise.

Ethan didn't mean to hide either:
"Stephen, it's like this, I have a cooperation with a game company in this book...then they just told me that their new products were not actively developed, but passively accepted...the company that disappeared was called Systech, It is said that it went bankrupt during the previous calculator war..."

When Ethan told about the problems he encountered, Woz, who was leaning on the reception chair, nodded his head directly, and said, "Ethan, what your partner said is indeed true."

"Systech, a company that did die in the calculator wars."

"Or rather..."

"When Hewlett-Packard launched the HP-35, all the calculator companies in the world fell silent."

"And when we developed the HP-65..."

"Those companies that have been researching in the field of calculators for more than ten years cannot recover because of the huge investment, and almost all of them have filed for bankruptcy..."

Having said that, the fat little Woz spread his hands with a smile.

He told Ethan the simplest killing with the simplest words.

That's right!

When Hiroshi Yamauchi said on the other end of the phone that the product COLOR TV GAME had nothing to do with him, and all special codes were researched by Mitsubishi Electric and Systech, and the latter died in the previous calculator war, Ethan said Start your own journey of proof!
He asked Julis Noble to move all the materials related to the calculator war in the Stanford archives and library to the company, and then went through it carefully, and then...

Then he discovered a heaven-defying fact!
The calculator wars were started by John Bull scientists...

It happened in this book...

But it ended in America!
In 1970, former Stanford president Fred Terman's student, Hewlett-Packard founder Bill Hewlett asked HP engineers to develop a calculator that could fit in a shirt pocket.Then people from Hewlett-Packard and Stanford Research Institute launched the world's first scientific pocket calculator to the world in just two years, successfully sweeping all the predecessors into the dustbin of history!

But this is not the point. Although the calculator named HP-35 is very pocket-sized, other companies still have the confidence to catch up, because everyone's technology gap is not big.

It only takes half a year to a year before other companies can produce products similar to HP-35.

but……

After just eighteen months, they were hopeless.

Because Hewlett-Packard released the world's first programmable handheld calculator, the HP-65!

What is even more desperate is that Steve Wozniak, an HP engineer at the time, also designed a read-write magnetic card for the HP-65 to help it play music!

When the player in your pocket appears...

Investors who were still looking forward to their company before, and engineers who were still working hard to develop new products were all suffocated!They played GG directly!Declare bankruptcy!Because they feel that they may not be able to catch up with HP's escaping development ideas in a lifetime of work!
According to Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Systech chosen by Mitsubishi Electric to imitate the Odyssey is the person who fell in this technological revolution and caused the wave...

The special code is in Silicon Valley!
When Ethan found out that he, who was running, was staggered by the technological revolution triggered by his people a few years ago, he really felt his head buzzing.

The war that ended as early as 1974 can still affect him?
Asiba!
What kind of shit is this!

Because the truth of the matter was too outrageous, he directly called Woz, the little fat man, from Apple, and when Woz claimed all this naturally, he said that those book companies were really noobs, and he hadn't worked hard on those companies. When it all fell down...

Ethan only felt that his eyes were dark.

There are countless old troughs in his heart, and he can't spit them out or swallow them down.

After sending away Steve Wozniak, the technical master, he is really one head as big as two in the office.When the witnesses of the incident and the people who set off the wave have confirmed that Nintendo's news is not groundless, the probability of Hiroshi Yamauchi lying about the COLOR TV GAME is actually very low, and if they didn't lie?
"Fxxk you!"

Ethan looked up to the sky and sighed.

"What kind of things have I encountered? First, Ralph Bell's patent against the sky! Then Chuck Paido's self-reference! Then there is Philips' repeated jumps on optical storage and magnetic storage The merger promotion! And Nintendo acted as a successor to make wedding dresses for other companies! Is this the most simple business war? Why is it so difficult for me to start a business!"

Ethan was really speechless.

He just wants to make money simply by relying on the memory of his previous life!

Why do bad things always accompany you!
What frustrates him the most is that all these things are like carrots!

One pull can bring out the mud!

However, even with all the helplessness in his heart, Ethan just vented for a while, then he sat down again and wrote his solution on the recording paper.

Although Woz, who will never betray himself, has already proved to Hiroshi Yamauchi that Nintendo may indeed have no autonomy in the COLOR TV GAME project, but in Ethan's view, all of this does not mean that Nintendo is targeting himself in Mirahua. There is purity and innocence in his petty actions.

At most, it can only be confirmed from the side, for the sake of profit, Nintendo can do anything.

If not, why didn't they add an authorization to the product COLOR TV GAME?

Mi Luohua had honestly paid for their light guns, but they refused to pay a dime for the color video game console under the banner of Mitsubishi Electric. This was nothing more than wanting to monopolize the proceeds.

Although this kind of behavior is very common in the business world, it doesn't mean that Ethan can accept it, or that he may feel at ease when he uses it himself, but if others use it, he must be cast aside to the end!

There is no way, as long as it is an individual, it is a double standard.

And since that's the case...

hum!

"Mr. Arakawa, the president of your company, is your father-in-law Mr. Yamauchi still unable to come to North America?"

At nine o'clock the next morning, Ethan met Minoru Arakawa again.

Perhaps because of a sleepless night, Arakawa Minoru's black and white eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, and the faintly dark bags under his eyes made his face look haggard.

But even so, after hearing Ethan's question, he still squeezed out a smile and kept apologizing.

"Mr. Jones, I contacted the agency again after I left yesterday. Our president, Mr. Yamauchi, is indeed unable to visit the United States in the near future. Please forgive me for any offense."

This answer was expected by Ethan, so he nodded indifferently.

"Then I want to know, how did you decide to deal with this matter?"

After hanging up the phone with Hiroshi Yamauchi yesterday, Ethan asked Minota Arakawa to go back to the hotel to wait for news on the grounds that he would personally investigate the truth. Summary of the previous situation, Arakawa also knows what the main content of this conversation is.

Facing Ethan's inquiry, he who had already spent the whole night understanding the specific matters pursed his lips, and said seriously, "Mr. Jones, I don't understand what you mean."

"Because as far as I know, when my father-in-law met you last summer, he already told you that he got the news from Mi Luohua."

"From the very beginning, my father-in-law has never concealed his source from you."

"If you regard this meeting as a close cooperation between Nintendo and Mirov, why didn't you ask my father-in-law directly?"

"Although you are very angry now, and we at Nintendo also know that the COLOR TV GAME project is the source of your displeasure, but we have explained it again and again, all of this is an accident."

"You can't call an accident a long-planned conspiracy."

"Because it's not fair to all of us, is it?"

Arakawa squeezed out a smile, and cast a bright look at Ethan as much as possible.

"Mr. Jones, you can take the North American game industry into your hands within two years. I believe that this depends on your extraordinary mind and amazing creativity, rather than groundless speculation and unreasonable guesses, right?"

Arakawa Minority asked back, which made Ethan laugh.

His words also reminded Ethan of meeting Hiroshi Yamauchi last summer.

Ethan admitted that Hiroshi Yamauchi did take the initiative to mention Mirov at that time.

Not only that, Yamauchi Hiroshi also told him very ashamedly that after contacting Mi Luohua, he was shocked to realize that the two sides had conflicts. For this reason, he even apologized to Ethan for his recklessness.

At that time, Ethan felt that Hiroshi Yamauchi's success was not without reason!
He really has a knack for communication!
The lines are full of sincerity!
And now it seems...

That's like an old sow wearing condoms, one set after another!
"Mr. Arakawa, your father-in-law, Mr. Yamauchi, is indeed an excellent businessman."

Ethan, who was leaning on the sofa, smiled and said, "When he brought up Mirov in front of me last year, you Nintendo may have already taken over the COLOR TV GAME project, right?"

"Maybe he knew something would happen, so he spoke in advance to reassure me?"

"Oh—Mr. Jones—" Arakawa really wanted to refute.

But Ethan didn't give him a chance.

Raising his right hand, he signaled to shut up, and then he smiled and said: "Besides this matter, all your requests, agreements, and decisions in the cooperation are intentional, right?"

"Take "Snake" as an example. You lowered the price of the third issue and sold it forcibly. On the surface, it seems that this is to make way for the upcoming "Pac-Man", but in reality?"

"The factory quantity of [-] units has reached our initial agreed standard. After that, no matter what conflicts we have, you Nintendo will not be considered a breach of contract on this project."

""Pac-Man", you settled a shipment dividend of [-] units with us in the first and second phases. At the beginning, Mr. Yamauchi said that this was to show his sincerity and that Nintendo was in cooperation friendliness, but now it seems that this is actually a forced performance of the contract."

"When you Nintendo have fulfilled the contract, if I unilaterally breach the contract, then I will have to sue and pay liquidated damages, right? Because whether it is prepaid dividends or payment time, it shows your sincerity and fact that you normally perform the contract , and my suspension is just a guess without evidence, the court will not accept my statement unless I can show the evidence that you have framed me, but—”

"I do not have?"

Ethan blinked with a smile on his face.

But Arakawa pursed his lips and did not speak.

Such a situation made Ethan laugh twice, and continued: "There is a third thing, and that is the chip factory. According to the agreement, the official start date of the chip factory should be August this year, which is next month. Their first One project should be Pac-Man."

"But you started work ahead of schedule."

"Because you're afraid that I'll stop it all."

"When the machines in the factory start to run, when you officially start cooperation with Benzi Electric in your country, my stop is to unilaterally tear up the contract."

"Without a reasonable explanation, you don't need to follow my orders, and on the MOS side, you can also communicate well, because you complied with Chuck Paido's needs and did not monopolize 6502's Meaning, it’s all about providing cheap chips to the world.”

"Right?"

That's right!

When Ethan calmed down in the early hours of the morning to carefully study the latest report submitted by Nintendo, he discovered that Hiroshi Yamauchi is indeed not a vegetarian!
There are special pitfalls in all the contracts!
What's more, these special pits were excavated with the intention of 'for the better benefit of Party A'!

When these initially seemingly "I'm for your own good" clauses have turned into murderous hatchets, isn't the final answer ready to come out?

So it is normal for Nintendo to be confident now!

And humility?
That's just because he, Ethan Jones, has shown unparalleled creativity!

"Mr Jones, I don't understand what you're talking about."

Arakawa took a deep breath and sighed: "We are really just a normal cooperation."

"Really?" Ethan asked with a smile, before Arakawa could answer, he said again: "I don't believe it."

'...'

When Ethan used the self-questioning and self-answering method that a host in his previous life used, Arakawa Minoru was stunned.

He froze for two seconds before forcing out a smile.

"Mr. Jones, as you said, everything must be based on evidence."

"What I say is evidence." Ethan replied with a smile.

'? ? ? '

Such unreasonable words made Arakawa frowned.

"Mr. Jones, I think your current state may not be suitable for cooperation..."

Arakawa finally couldn't hold it anymore, and said: "If you feel uncomfortable somewhere, I can stay in Palo Alto for a few days, and I will visit you after you recover..."

"No need." Ethan waved his hand and said, "The most important thing you should do now is go back."

"Go back to your country."

"Back to Kyoto."

"Meet your father-in-law Yamauchi Hiroshi."

"You tell him that I, Ethan Jones, need a satisfactory answer."

Arakawa narrowed his eyes.

Ethan's suddenly raised face made him feel uncomfortable.

At this moment, he even wanted to ask if Ethan wanted to go to war.

But in the next second, he swallowed back the words that just came to his lips!

The pupils shrank even more suddenly!
Because, Ethan said——"You may think I'm arrogant, but I want to tell you that in this matter, what I say is evidence."

"The president of your company found me last summer because of Mi Luohua's notice."

"The president of your company intentionally or unintentionally cooperated with Mi Luohua and allowed me to stay in your country for a month."

"I really don't know how much you have earned from this business, but I know that you need to give me a satisfactory answer. For this, I can give you a week."

"If the answers you come up with at that time still make me angry, then I can only say sorry to you, and I will knock you Nintendo out of the gaming world!"

"As for the method, it's very simple, right?"

"You are eager to give me an early settlement on the "Pac-Man" project. Isn't that because you want to continue to represent this product after the COLOR TV GAME incident?"

"You are eager to get the chip company into production. Isn't that because you want to continue to obtain chip production capacity after the COLOR TV GAME incident?"

"Okay, I'll satisfy you."

"I don't tear up the contract, you can still sell it, and you still have to pay me dividends."

"but--"

"You don't want to get Star Wars."

"And the only thing I will do next is call George Lucas and tell him that I want Star Wars to be released in your country as soon as possible."

"At the same time, in order to cooperate with the promotion of the movie, I will authorize the game "Star Wars" to Fox as an overseas agent, and let them sell the game console into the movie theaters in your country."

"Actually, I've always been curious, which is the better game, "Pac-Man" or "Star Wars"? I couldn't find an opportunity to experiment before, but now the opportunity is here?"

"Don't you want to eat the proceeds of Pac-Man?"

"Okay, I will satisfy you."

Ethan is not stupid!He will not take the initiative to tear up the cooperation with Nintendo!
Because there is no evidence for the previous events!
But it doesn't matter, right?
When Nintendo desperately fulfilled the contract ahead of schedule and desperately wanted to use high liquidated damages and lawsuits to protect the agency of the game and chips, they had already exposed their fate!
Now more than anyone else, they hope to continue to enjoy the era bonus of those popular games!
In this case, it would be easier to deal with, right?

Don't you Nintendo want to make money, don't you Nintendo want to make games?
you can!

I am satisfied with you!

At the same time, I will put "Star Wars" on your market and sell it!
In Lao Tzu's previous life, when the Millennium Falcon flew over your island country, "Space Invaders" without any blessings sold out, but now, when the original "Star Wars" appeared...

You Nintendo is selling "Pac-Man" to me!

I can't crush you to death!
The most important thing is that when "Star Wars" lands in the island country, no matter whether "Pac-Man" will explode or not, it will be no loss for me!Because I collect money according to the table!

Nintendo also signed a guarantee!

"Star Wars" is a hit, I'm making money!

"Pac-Man" is still sold out, you Nintendo still have to give me money!

And when there are more products to carve up the total market, Nintendo, which can open its own game hall, will inevitably earn less!
Yes--

Ethan remembered the game hall that Hiroshi Yamauchi introduced to him when he visited Benzi last year.

The scene of making machines and earning coins by yourself is really beautiful!
He was very envious at the time, but now...

Ha ha!

"Mr. Jones—you—" Arakawa, who wanted to understand all this, was anxious for the first time.

He wanted to say something, but Ethan stopped him with a smile.

"Mr. Arakawa, I have one last word for you."

"When we in America think you have something, you better have it."

"Otherwise, you will be at a loss~"

Before the words fell, Ethan got up.

He patted the young man on the shoulder, and walked out without mercy.

　Note: ① Hayakawa Electric is actually Sharp. ②HP-35 was the most powerful calculator at that time, and it smashed through the market as soon as it came out.Before the advent of personal computers, the HP-65 was considered a personal computer in the eyes of people at the time, and it was even used by NASA in astronauts' space missions. ③For notebooks, the calculator war should have ended in the 80s, because in the early 80s, Casio launched a product that changed the history of calculators and video games.But for Lao Mi, in 1975, when the Altair appeared, the calculator wars were over, because the new personal computer wars came.The point of view of the United States is adopted in this article.

　　
　
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