Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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In the case of most venture capitals with a cold face, Ross Perot was fooled by Jobs with $20 million for a next company with no actual operating income. Is he stupid?

of course not!

At this level, Rose Perot’s pursuit is definitely different from that of ordinary people.

He doesn't lack money; he doesn't feel bad for loss; what he really wants is adventure and a sense of accomplishment after a challenge. This can also be seen from his past experience.

The main customer of Electronic Data Systems is the U.S. government, so its scope of activities is quite wide.

At the end of 1978, on the eve of the revolution in Iran, two executives of electronic data system companies working there were arrested by the local government for bribery due to an anti-corruption operation. The bail was as high as 12.75 million U.S. dollars.

At that time, Ross Perot was still the owner of this company, and he immediately sought a lawyer for rescue. However, the revolutionary wave that broke out soon after, left the situation in Iran in chaos, making it impossible to pay for people.

Ross Perot's action was more decisive. He invited a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel to form a team and travel to Iran to rescue him. Even he himself went to the front line to supervise the battle.

You know, at that time, Rose Perot was already a real rich man. This shows the risky genes in his bones.

Fortunately, although the rescue process was tortuous, it finally succeeded. These people transferred to Turkey and returned to the United States safely.

Based on this incident, Ross Perrault invited the famous British mystery novelist, Kenneth Martin Flat, to write a novel called "onwingsofeagles"-"onwings of eagles", which was published in 1982 Later, it was extremely popular and once occupied the top position of the bestseller list.

It is not difficult to imagine how this adventure has brought Ross Perot a huge return of prestige.

Now, everyone looks down on Jobs, and Ross Perot plans to take a gamble on this entrepreneurial star he admires to prove his brilliance different from ordinary people.

The mentality of this Texas billionaire was reflected in his declaration when he smashed $20 million into the partnership. He said to Jobs: "I choose the jockeys, the jockeys choose the horses and ride them, and you are the jockeys I bet on, so you figure it out."

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After chatting with Jobs for a while, Tang Huan understood the relationship. He had to be convinced that Jobs was a man of great fortune, like a female star who dreamed of marrying a rich family, he really caught a golden turtle son-in-law.

"With this fund and Rose Perot's attention, your next can still survive for a while." Tang Huan finally commented on the financing.

Hearing what Tang Huan was saying, Jobs unconvincedly let out his rhetoric, "The previous mac was not necessarily worse than your Fangyuan personal computer, but it was launched a bit hastily at the beginning, which shows its performance. Not enough. After expanding the memory to 512kb and listing the hard disk as an optional configuration, it is quite useful. Therefore, my next will definitely not be inferior to your Fangyuan workstation."

"From the perspective of your non-priority and arbitrary performance in the next project development process over the past year, the progress of next development is likely to be as difficult as the mac."

As an expert, Tang Huan relentlessly warned: "Do you understand the true meaning of rapid technological development? It is 1987. When will your next reach the level of real commercial use? It took three or four years for the mac to follow in the footsteps. If you really have to wait until the 1990s, your next pride includes object-oriented and other bright spots, it is difficult to say whether it can be regarded as a leader in the industry. "

After so many years of open and secret rivalry, even though he didn't admit it, Jobs was convinced of Tang Huan in his heart. One of the major manifestations was that he was able to listen to Tang Huan's words in his heart.

Therefore, in response to Tang Huan’s loyalty, Jobs did not become angry with a donkey temper, but nodded with an ugly face, “You don’t need to irritate me, that 3 million dollars can’t be wasted. In another year, you’ll just wait to see next Let’s make a stunning appearance. At that time, the only protagonist on comdex will be next."

After issuing a sonorous declaration, he didn't want to hear any more lessons from Tang Huan, a special shareholder who took up 10% of the shares with only US$3 million, got up and left.

Tang Huan shook his head. Jobs, this big flicker, would have at least half of the water in his words. It is estimated that at least an additional 50% will be added in the year he claimed.

However, it doesn't matter. In Tang Huan's view, the 3 million US dollars was just a ticket. When Jobs has something noteworthy, he can enter the court to influence it.

As for now, just let Steve Jobs toss, and ibm is the most worthy of attention.

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The opening time of comdex in the fall of Las Vegas this year was postponed to the beginning of December after being deliberately held. The reason is naturally to provide more preparation time for participants in the new round of personal computer standards wars full of gunpowder-the harder the parties fight, the more exciting the comdex will be.

The new generation personal computer ps/2 of Giant Blue has naturally become a major focus of this exhibition.

ibm CEO John Axe personally came to the scene and released a dozen models of ps/2 in one breath. Bill Lowo, head of ibm's personal computer department, even announced that the ibm-pc/at series of products are about to end the production cycle, and the company's focus on personal computer products will be completely shifted to ps/2 in the future.

This decision of Bill Lowo is similar to that of his predecessor Don Estelic.

At that time, after the introduction of the ibm-pc/at using the intel80286 microprocessor, Don Estelich announced that ibm would close the ibm-pc/xt production line using the intel8088 microprocessor and completely cede this field to The emerging ibm-pc compatible machine manufacturers compete with each other.

As a result, the implementation of this strategy proved that there were flaws in consideration. At that time, the market demand for ibm-pc/xt was still okay. Don Estelitch’s voluntary withdrawal allowed ibm-pc compatible machine manufacturers to take this opportunity to grow and develop and launch ibm-pc/at compatible machines. Competing with Blue Giant's genuine ibm-pc/at, the result was a big victory and very rewarding.

Now, Bill Lowo copied Don Estelitch's approach-after the launch of the new generation of personal computers ps/2, he gave up the continued production of the previous generation of ibm-pc/at.

But the biggest difference between the two is that Bill Lowo learned the lessons of Don Estelic, that is, although ibm-pc/at has withdrawn from the stage of history, the target customers targeted by ibm-pc/at The group has not been abandoned, and even the previously lost ibm-pc/xt market is preparing to regain it.

The biggest support to support this ambitious plan is the new architecture of ps/2. Among a large number of models announced, only one product has an intel80386 cpu, and the remaining products use the intel80286 and the intel8086 which is not comparable to the shrunken version of the intel8088.

Obviously, while ibm is launching a strictly authorized and newly designed ps/2 to distinguish it from those ibm-pc compatible machines, it also intends to "interrupt the outside world must first install inside", and to rely on ibm-pc compatible machine manufacturers to survive. Take it away with the growing ground, and destroy this group that **** blood from yourself.

In other words, Tang Huan was like a big enemy to the appearance of ps/2, but ps/2 targeted the ibm-pc compatible machine as the first target.

A little green in the thousands of flowers. Among the many product models announced as the first batch of ps/2, the only one adopts the 32-bit microprocessor intel80386dx ps/2-8580, which inevitably appears to be particularly eye-catching.

This is currently regarded as the most high-end ibm personal computer product, the bus architecture is exactly the 32-bit bus micro-channel architecture.

It can be said that ps/2-8580 is the best evaluation platform for a comprehensive understanding of the newly released microchannel architecture.

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"PS/2-8580 should be the most powerful personal computer with ibm, but it still can't threaten the mid-range model of Fangyuan personal computer. The operating frequency of the cpu alone is almost twice as bad." Charles, who has collected intelligence Simone, come to Tang Huan to report non-stop.

"That's because we have the most advanced wafer factory in the world, and then we can manufacture the most powerful microprocessor." Tang Huan poured coffee for Charles Simeone and commented with a smile, "Moreover, I can be sure One point, in the early days of ibm, in order to discourage us, it used to play the game of drawing wages from the bottom, hoarding the microprocessors intel8086 and intel80286 used by ibm-pc. It is estimated that it has not been processed until now."

After taking a sip of coffee, Charles Simeone continued: "From a preliminary judgment, the operating system os/2 on ps/2 has powerful functions, but its execution speed is obviously slow, with the best memory capacity. It needs to reach 2mb."

"In this way, the market promotion of ps/2 still has a not low threshold." Tang Huan smiled meaningfully.

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See ps/2 coming out, the ibm-pc camp can't calm down.

Gein ibm’s plan to encircle and suppress them is obvious. The main system bus has been replaced with a newly designed micro-channel architecture. Even the small interface of the main box connecting the keyboard and mouse has become a completely different ps/2. Interface, this Nima has done absolutely!

Now the new product release of ps/2 includes so many low-end products using intel80286 and intel8086 microprocessors. It is clear that the territory previously abandoned is to be reclaimed, so how can everyone live a nourishing life?

The unauthorised imitation of ibm personal computers has been taken for granted in the ibm-pc compatible camp, which can be described as grievances, especially the small group of "six doors", which immediately fought back.

Due to the cost advantage in many operational links including distribution channels that the ibm elephant simply can’t have, Compaq and other companies simply came to the market and lowered the price of the intel80386 model. The intel80386 model in the ps/2 has crushed the intel80286 model in the ps/2; and the competition of the remaining intel8086 models has become a short handover.

At the same time, ps/2 was analyzed by various slices, and it was only a matter of time before the new generation of ibm-pc compatible computer system bus was designed for the advantages and disadvantages of the microchannel architecture.

This tragic trend of white knives entering red knives spread directly from comdex to the subsequent Christmas sales season.

Of course, Tang Huan would not sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight foolishly. Although the ibm-pc camp is fighting a civil war, the entire ibm-pc standard is expanding, and he simply cannot tolerate it.

As the world’s highest market capitalization company, Fangyuan Computer’s battle must be upright at least on the surface. The main positive method is to increase the intensity of promotions and discounts. After all, this is just the beginning. There is no need to have all the cards in the ibm-pc compatible camp. Come out~www.readwn.com~ If anyone is the beneficiary in the new round of personal computer standards wars, then it must be the software vendors that strive to take all hardware platforms such as Microsoft and wordperfect. After all, it doesn’t matter. How to fight among the personal computer manufacturers, the entire disk is in rapid expansion.

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Tang Huan, who has tightened his nerves, is paying close attention to the changes in the market situation. There is another heavy news from Xiangjiang—Due to a sudden heart attack, Hong Kong Governor Youde died during his tenure.

The life and death of a Hong Kong governor certainly cannot be compared with those of the leaders of the country, but for the tiny land of Xiangjiang, it is definitely a top priority.

In particular, there has been widespread rumors in the Hong Kong community that the reason why Hong Kong Governor Youde suffered a sudden heart attack was because of the social commotion in Hong Kong triggered by the sudden withdrawal of the franchise of Hong Kong Telecom by HSBC. The response of the Hong Kong business community to this can only be described with enthusiasm. , While the other party, Hong Kong Telecom, made fierce opposition.

HeungKong Telecom’s attitude is righteous. The contribution it has made to the development of HeungKong telecommunications industry in the past few years is obvious to all. There is absolutely no fault. If the franchise is withdrawn, the Hong Kong government is treachery, and we will inevitably see it in the arbitration court.

Hong Kong Governor Youde once tried to the mainland to test the feasibility of the Hong Kong government to redeem the franchise of HeungKong Telecom. The answer was simple. This is the Hong Kong government's own business, but according to the "Sino-British Joint Declaration" and According to its annex, the fiscal reserves of the Hong Kong government cannot be emptied.

In such a dilemma, the pressure in the heart of the splinted Governor Youde is conceivable.

This also caused HSBC and Qinhe to pinch each other. As a result, the rumor that the Governor of Hong Kong was forced to death became widespread, and more and more people believed it.