The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 650 Shock Release
At the scene of the MAC OS press conference, Xu Guanwu's family was really out of tune with the atmosphere in the venue.The people who came to the press conference were not reporters, but investors, bankers, or computer enthusiasts, computer practitioners, etc., each of them seemed to be quite fanatical, anxiously waiting for this revolutionary operation Systems can be born out of nowhere.

Xu Guanwu's family even brought their children here. It didn't look like they were going to a meeting, but more like they were here to go shopping on the street.People around here looked at them with surprised eyes, as if they were the strange geeks.

Xu Guanwu didn't bother to pay attention to these people. He had just met Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in the background, and had seen this MAC OS operating system in advance.Although it is not a little bit worse than the 98\XP\WIN7 he used before, Xu Guanwu is actually quite pleasantly surprised.

Seeing that Jobs and Wozniak were making final preparations for the press conference, Xu Guanwu didn't want to disturb them anymore, so he took his wife and children out of the backstage, came to the press conference site, and sat in the front seat down.The people behind couldn't help being a little surprised to see the family sitting in front as if they were watching a movie.

These people love computers so much, dream so much of getting close to this MAC OS operating system, and now they are far away, and that guy sits so far away with his wife and children, it is simply too unfair.It would be reasonable to drive this family out and then make room for them.

They hurriedly found the manager of the press conference to complain, but the manager completely shut them up with one sentence, "That is our largest shareholder of Apple Computer, Stanley Xu."

Xu Guanwu sat in the front row with Lin Qingxia and Zhao Yazhi holding their children in their arms, waiting for the official release of the MAC OS operating system.

Soon a master of ceremonies came to the stage, "Let's welcome the general manager of Apple Computer, Mr. Steve Jobs, and the chief engineer, Mr. Stephen Wozniak, to the stage."

Applause immediately erupted from the audience. Apart from other things, Jobs and Wozniak were sharp enough to develop from a penniless poor boy to a billionaire within five years.

The two stepped onto the stage hand in hand, and the microphone was handed over to Jobs, "Thank you for coming to our press conference today, I suggest that you must keep the ticket in your hand, it will be of great commemorative value in the future, because it has witnessed a History. From today onwards, the era of personal computers has officially opened, and people will enjoy the fun brought by personal computers. Now, please allow me to introduce to you the latest model of APPLE Ⅲ computer and its graphics and visualization operating system MAC OS !"

After Jobs finished speaking, Wozniak stepped forward and lifted the tablecloth on the stage, and a very beautiful computer was lifted by the elevator, slowly rose from below, and then rotated at a uniform speed, allowing the audience under the stage People can appreciate it from various angles.

"Our APPLE III computer is equipped with a 128-inch monitor. The core is an extremely fast CPU with a calculation rate of over 3.5 megabytes produced by Motorola. It is also equipped with a 875K super-large memory, a [-]-inch floppy disk drive, and an [-]KB super-large computer. Storage capacity." Jobs introduced passionately.

The hardware configuration of the APPLE III computer looks rudimentary and pitiful today, but it was the top configuration at that time.Every time Jobs introduced an item, he heard a burst of praise from the audience, which made Xu Guanwu a little dumbfounded.

When Jobs introduced the configuration of this computer, Wozniak on the side had already started the computer. To Xu Guanwu's surprise, the startup time of this computer was so fast that it took almost 30 seconds to start up successfully. Yes, and it's accompanied by a simple welcome screen and a pleasant electronic music.

Seeing that this computer can start up so quickly, and the color of the screen is far superior to other similar products, the audience applauded even more enthusiastically.Xu Guanwu was also surprised by Apple's optimization of this operating system. It is quite remarkable that the computer can start up so quickly with such a simple configuration.

After the computer starts up, it quickly enters the desktop.The camera next to it immediately pointed the lens at the table, and then projected it on the big screen through the projector, so that everyone can see clearly.

When people see several large icons displayed on the desktop, such as "My Computer", "My Documents", "Recycle Bin", "Applications", "Games and Entertainment", etc., they can't help being stunned.

At this time, Wozniak picked up the mouse in front of the computer. It was a milky white mouse that could just be held with one hand.

"Everyone, Wozniak is holding a mouse now, what is the mouse for?" Jobs asked with a smile, and everyone in the audience showed a blank expression, "Then let Wozniak demonstrate it." All right."

Wozniak dragged the mouse dexterously, and people could see through the big screen that there was a cursor arrow on the computer screen, which was constantly moving as Wozniak dragged it.

Then Wozniak clicked on "My Computer", and my computer immediately turned blue, and everyone in the audience exclaimed, and people with smart heads already knew what it did.

Wozniak continued to operate, double-clicked twice, the "My Computer" icon immediately expanded, and a window appeared on the desktop.People can see Wozniak's double-click operation and the content changes on the computer screen through the big screen.Now many people have a little understanding of the function of the mouse.

This thing that looks like a little mouse can be so flexible to choose what it wants, it is really convenient.It's amazing how much keyboarding can be saved with this little guy.You must know that people chose to open the storage files in their computers before, but they needed to enter one code after another with the keyboard.But now it is obvious that people can freely select the files they want to operate as long as they double-click with this mouse.Of course, this is also due to the visual operating system of MAC OS, so that the files can be clearly listed.

Wozniak then used the mouse to demonstrate various applications such as opening, closing, dragging, shrinking, and zooming in of the window, winning rounds of applause from the audience.

"Everyone, the application of the mouse will liberate one's hand and double the work efficiency. It is a new breakthrough in the history of personal computer development." Jobs roared loudly, and everyone in the audience was also inexplicably delighted, cheering for him together. clap up.

Xu Guanwu was also very excited when he heard it below. He didn't expect Jobs to have such a superb provocative force. No wonder the later Apple conferences are always hosted by him. Xu Guanwu really admires it.

After Jobs introduced the functions of the mouse, he then began to focus on the MAC OS operating system. This operating system is a [-]-bit operating system that can handle multiple tasks at the same time, and it uses very little memory for operation. Allows the operator to run other programs more smoothly.

The MAC OS operating system is based on the UNIX kernel. Apple's software engineers led by Jobs and Wozniak have given a lot of optimization, and designed a variety of applications, which can be used to do a lot of work.

Of course, MAC OS mainly provides a very good platform for software developers. Many people who love computer programming can transplant their own programs to this computer, because it has been authorized by Microsoft BASIC language, and all programs based on BASIC The programs developed by the language can run smoothly on it.Based on this alone, MAC OS has won unanimous praise from all IT professionals.

In addition to the MAC OS operating system, the APPLE Ⅲ computer is also pre-installed with VISICALC chalk gray spreadsheet processing software and MYWORD document processing software two office software.The new visual chalk gray spreadsheet software was developed by Apple Computer, while the MYWORD document processing software was developed by Microsoft.Apple Computer originally released a document processing software of the same type, but after investigation, it was found that that software was not as smooth as Microsoft's. Therefore, in line with the principle of excellence, Jobs would rather give up his own software than the one from Microsoft. Install Microsoft document processing software.However, he also knows that the future prospect of document processing software must be very bright, and he does not want to be choked by others, so he is asking people to continue to optimize that software, striving to replace MYWORD in the future.

In addition to these two office software, the machine also has two small games, one is minesweeper, which is said to be played by the most people in the world, and the other is "Tetris", which is popular all over the world, but since this game Produced by Xu Guanwu, the name "Tetris" is a bit out of date, so its name is actually "Magic Cube".

When Wozniak was explaining, he also demonstrated the gameplay of minesweeping and magic cube. Although the gameplay is very simple, these small games actually have their own magic power, which makes people dumbfounded and itchy. I wish I could go up to accompany them It's cool to play.

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The entire press conference lasted for three hours, but such a long time did not make people feel tired at all, because Jobs' explanation was so passionate that he would blow up every little thing. of.It's like a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, which is basically a must-have for computers now.However, he still introduced this floppy disk drive specially for Apple III computers in great detail. With the optimized design in the MAC OS system, the reading speed is [-] times that of ordinary floppy disk drives. The data is protected, and the service life of the floppy disk is greatly extended and so on.

Immediately after the three-hour product launch event ended, a dealer contacted Apple, wanting to order this brand new APPLE III computer.For a while, the order volume was quite hot, and Xu Guanwu had already seen a flower on the smiling faces of Jobs and Wozniak.

However, he didn't pay much attention to these. The only thing he cared about was the computer that Wozniak used to give a demonstration just now.He had already told Jobs and Wozniak that the computer would be his after the press conference.

Jobs and Wozniak naturally knew the value of this computer, not just a computer, but also a witness of this history, and they were reluctant to give it away.But since Xu Guanwu asked for it, it would be inappropriate to refuse.

So the two watched Xu Guanwu move the APPLE III away, their faces twitched in distress.

"Wow, Kaka, the world's first Apple III computer, and it was personally operated by Wozniak and Jobs. It is pre-installed with the world's first graphical operating system, and it will definitely sell for a high price in the future." Xu Guanwu couldn't bear it. Live proudly smiled.

"Ah Wu, how much is this computer worth? It's worth making you happy like this." Lin Qingxia asked curiously.

"At least a million dollars." Xu Guanwu said proudly, "This is a computer that has truly witnessed the history of the development of personal computers. It is the only one in the world, and it can be said to be priceless."

(End of this chapter)