Video Game Empire

At the end of the public demonstration class, the students have left the stage, but the audience below did not leave, but began to gather in the background. This is the consulting service office set up by Aikang Computer.

"I would like to ask, what is your company's quotation for building such a computer classroom?"

Principal White of San Marino High School, who was sitting close to the door leading to the back of the auditorium, was one of the first group of people who quickly walked over to consult. As soon as he sat down, he asked the question he cared about most.

"Hello sir, may I ask how many students are expected in each class in your school?" The person in charge of receiving White was a white girl with a few freckles, she asked with a professional smile.

"Twenty people in each class!" White said after thinking.

"Okay, sir! A very important piece of equipment in the computer solution of our Ikon company's system is the network server, which is also the most expensive piece of equipment in the entire system, priced at $8,000.

At the same time, I also recommend that you equip each classroom with one or two spare computers, so that if a computer fails and needs to be repaired, it will not affect the normal class of students! "

The girl took the calculator next to her, calculated and billed to the client: "One ABC-2 computer used by a teacher costs $2,899, and 21 ABC-1 computers used by students cost $1,189 each. The price of a server is 8,000 US dollars. In addition, each ABC computer needs to be equipped with an adapter for networking, which is called a network card by our company, and each network card is priced at 150 US dollars. The price of the whole hardware is 39,168 US dollars.

In addition to the cost of software, this is the price list of all software provided by our icon computer. Of course, it would be very uneconomical to buy each item separately, such as the East-DOS operating system, which costs $49 per copy.

Therefore, we specially designed a software package for school customers. Each computer uses ten teaching software including the East-DOS operating system. The package license fee is only $150, and 22 computers are $3300!

So your school builds a computer classroom with a total investment of $42,468. As for manual services such as installation and debugging, our Ankang computers are all free of charge, and we also give away a one-year after-sales warranty service! "

White made a point. It only cost more than 40,000 US dollars to build such a computer classroom. The school's previous budget of 100,000 US dollars was enough to build two additional computer classrooms.

"Okay, thank you!" White smiled at her, "but I need to discuss it with others and make a decision later."

"Is it convenient to leave a business card? I'll contact you after you think about it for a few days!" The girl couldn't help but feel a little regretful that the business was not negotiated on the spot, but she still wanted to find another opportunity to fight for it.

"Here's my business card, and it doesn't take a few days. I'll make a decision soon. If my school chooses to buy your company's products, I'll come back to you later, thank you for your service, miss!" Gentleman White smiled, stood up and gave his seat to the other people behind waiting for consultation.

Unlike the principals who are generally concerned about how much money is needed to build such a computer classroom, the computer teachers who came to the exhibition were undoubtedly more interested in the computers and networked teaching systems on the booth.

The networked teaching system developed by Aikang Computer is actually the prototype of the LAN in later generations. Last year, at Xerox's world-famous Palo Alto Laboratory, several scientists who invented Ethernet resigned from the company and founded a company called the company. The company has already developed an Ethernet adapter, commonly known as a network card.

However, the company mainly designs network adapters for large and small central hosts such as IBM and DEC, and they do not focus on microcomputers at all. Because the microcomputer of this era is only a personal toy for computer enthusiasts in the eyes of most people, and there is no need for networking at all.

This state will not change until a large number of PC-compatible machines appear in the mid-1980s and gradually replace the status of minicomputers in the business office field.

But Li Xuan is keenly aware of the opportunity, although the microcomputer called personal computer is 108,000 miles worse than the small computer in performance. But he is cheaper. For example, a classroom LAN connected to more than 20 computers is simply a total investment of 50,000 US dollars.

And a VAX system from DEC, which also has more than 20 users, requires at least US$200,000 for small computers and terminal equipment. Moreover, the minicomputer system also needs to build a special computer room, and the system administrator needs to undergo technical training. Not to mention the huge post-maintenance costs, the initial investment of US$200,000 is beyond the reach of most small and medium-sized enterprises.

Therefore, although the performance of the LAN system developed by Aikang is not necessarily high, it is undoubtedly very attractive to schools and small companies.

"This is the server required for networking. Its main task is to manage the network and store shared data, and at the same time act as a bridge for data exchange between microcomputers. Therefore, its performance is higher than that of ordinary microcomputers. You can understand it as A low-end version of the minicomputer, this networked server from Ikon, uses a Motorola 68000 processor."

John pointed to the case under the desk of the podium, which was one size larger than the main case of the ABC computer, and said to the audience around him, "It's not complicated to use, our company has compiled an operation manual, if you understand Computer, you can get started after reading it once! If you really encounter problems that you cannot solve, our after-sales maintenance engineers from Aikang will deal with them within 24 hours."

Listening to the lively discussion of the Ikon company's networking operating system, there were a few people who boasted good technology and were impatient. magic.

Thomas stood behind him silently, observing everyone's excited or excited expressions. He had a keen intuition as a reporter~www.readwn.com~ This Ikon company came prepared this time, and it seemed that a new one was going to be launched. new era.

After listening for a while, Thomas went to the backstage consultation area, where there were more people than the booth. The fifteen consultation windows temporarily set up by Aikang Company were all lined up. He was about to go to one of the consultation offices to inquire, but found that not far away, Principal White, Ms. Li Wang and other people from San Marino High School were gathering to discuss something.

As soon as Thomas walked up to them, he heard the new computer teacher say excitedly: "Icon's networked system is very useful, it will make our teaching stress a lot easier. I recommend that every computer The number of teaching classes can be increased from 20 to 25, so that more students have the opportunity to take computer courses!"

Computer courses are not required by the school district, but are optional courses for students who are interested in computer knowledge. According to the original plan, the two computer teachers will only lead two teaching classes per semester, with twenty students in each class.

In other words, only 80 students in San Marino High School have the opportunity to take computer courses each semester. But if teachers were willing to increase the size of each teaching class to twenty-five, one hundred students could take computer courses each semester. This is certainly good news for the school.

"That's the decision, choose Ikon's networked teaching system! I'll sign the agreement right away, and let them come to the school to install the machine as soon as possible!" Principal White glanced at the chairman of the school board next to him and found that she nodded in agreement. , and immediately made a firm decision.

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