Blooming America

Chapter 288 Walkman and Backpacker

People are in good spirits at happy events. Although Catherine knows magnetoresistive head technology, Catherine does not know much about the content of the technology itself.

She is not like the protagonists inside, knowing everything in the sky and the earth...

In fact, I know so many things because my memory has been enhanced since I came into this world.

After writing down the general content of the magnetoresistive head technology on the paper, Catherine went to the bookcase and took out a book on magnetism. Catherine looked at it. She wanted to make sure that her theory was correct-if she remembered it wrong. If something happened and someone discovered it, it would be embarrassing.

It took about two hours before Catherine completed the introduction of the magnetoresistive head technology. There are not many words, and the content of the article is very general, but this is the same as Catherine's usual practice-to point out a research direction for the technicians.

"Saunders? Come to my office. I have a question to tell you."

Catherine called Sanders over.

"I'm going to drive a hard drive." When Sanders came in, Catherine's words startled him.

"Shall we... drive the hard drive?" Sanders was a little strange.

"Yes, the hard drive. This is a must."

"But why is this? Our system can be stored in read-only memory, so that it can be read quickly and there will be no accidents."

"It's a server, I'm going to use this thing in the server equipment, so I have to use this." Catherine shrugged.

"Server... You mean, we want to open a new server for the Internet?"

Catherine gave Ralph's plan to Sanders.

"That's it."

Sanders picked up the schedule, and after looking at it for a few minutes, he nodded.

"That's it. That is to say...we are not going to use the ibm hard drive that we bought?"

"No... use it for the time being, it will be hard for our hard drives to beat ibm in a few years.

In the ages, ibm hard drives are expanding their capacity at an annual rate of %. It's definitely not possible to catch up head-on, but there is another way to do it, and that is the magnetoresistive head technology.

"Saunders, do you think this is feasible?"

Catherine gave Sanders what she had just written.

"Well... Although I don't know much about hard drives, it seems that the things mentioned above are not impossible to achieve."

"Sister Sanders?"

At this moment, the door was knocked.

Olson came in.

Catherine stopped the discussion with Sanders, and then asked: "Is the discussion finished?"

Olsen nodded: "If it's a model, our cost is about US dollars, depending on what the server we need is."

"What if it's a microcomputer?"

"In the case of a microcomputer... the best solution should be the military version that is stable and reliable, but in this case, it is difficult for us to face the current network, so the technical department believes that at least a 16-bit netg is appropriate."

"There is no problem in this regard, we are developing the military version of inte1." Sanders said.

"It's the one used on the tank?" Olsen seemed to hear something.

"Well, that's the kind." Sanders also nodded.

"If a microcomputer is used, the supported memory is very high, and it can support up to 4mb of memory, which is very beneficial to our product development."

Catherine nodded.

Nowadays, the computer memory is not used, and the maximum memory is 4mb, which is incredible in the eyes of many people.

This is like in the era of 512mb memory, someone has already used 4gb of memory, it will always make people stare.

"...In addition, our technical department recommends whether it is possible to install a firewall on the server, which is the same as the one we opened for a. The server is different from a normal computer. If someone intrudes, it may cause some big troubles. "

Catherine nodded, this is indeed a very important question. Some things are best to be prevented before they happen. Catherine was very positive about Olson's opinion.

"There is another thing..."

"So... about the hard drive, I will discuss it with the technician." Sanders said suddenly.

"Oh... I'm sorry." Catherine suddenly found that she had forgotten Sanders aside: "That's it."

Sanders picked up Catherine's document and left.

Catherine once again turned her gaze to Olsen.

"Olson, what's the other thing you said?"

"Oh, it's about the walkman. The technical department has already released a new product, but although it can listen to songs... but it's hard to shrink in size."

"Oh?"

Has the Walkman been researched so quickly?

Catherine did not expect to have such a big surprise today.

"Really?"

"We have tried it. The soundtrack is perfect."

"Okay, I'm going to watch it now..." At this moment, the phone rang suddenly, and Catherine had no choice but to say: "Elsa, you go to Olsen, go and listen to me. bring it here."

The call came from the Los Angeles Times. They wanted to discuss with American Telecom about the electronic version of the newspaper. The online payment method has not yet been implemented, so so far, they can only use the telephone order method.

When they hung up the phone, Elsa and Olsen had returned, and Olsen was holding a round and flat object in his hand.

"This is the product report, Sister Edson."

Olsen gave a report to Catherine.

"This is the cd player?" Elsa looked at this huge thing, and it was really difficult to associate it with the "portrait".

"To be precise, this is only a semi-finished product... but it can already be used to listen to songs, and the effect is definitely better than those of tape players." Olsen explained.

Perhaps because of the "premature birth", many electronic components are now unable to be shaped, so only such a semi-finished product can appear.

However, compared to the tape player, this kind of optical disc player is considered advanced, and the weight is also very light.

"Well... can this product shrink further?" Catherine asked.

"Yes, but it will take two or three years." Olsen poured cold water on Catherine.

Catherine shook her head, that would definitely not work.

"The weight is 1.8 kg..." Catherine looked at the parameters next to her again.

After putting the battery in, it weighs 2 kilograms.

In this way, it is obviously impossible to make a "walkman", but must it be made into a walkman?

Catherine was thinking.

"Maybe we should make this product a very cool thing, Elsa, if you say this, will many people like it?"

Elsa seemed to be thinking about something.

"Maybe... the young people nowadays should like to be mavericks. Those people (hippies) like to run around in the street every day, and they like to engage in parades. I often see them carrying a huge broadcast The device is walking up and down the street..."

Catherine looked at the semi-finished machine thoughtfully.

"Um... what if we design this ‘walkman’ into a backpack?"

Catherine thought, then picked up the paper and pen, and sketched out the appearance of the backpack.

"How about making it into this form?"

"It looks good." This is Elsa's answer.

"Very good." Olson nodded.

Although both of them hate and agree, this is a sketch after all, and there are still many things to do in the design.

"Just use the form of a backpack... Regarding this ‘walkman’, do you think there is anything that needs to be strengthened?"

Elsa said: "There should be more songs. This is very important. Everyone has their own favorite songs, so the number of songs must be more."

Catherine deeply agreed with Elsa's opinion.

"Well, it is true. We have to contact various record companies and ask them to make audio CDs for us..."

In fact, Catherine didn't worry much about this problem.

There is a considerable advantage between CD and current tape.

First of all, the storage capacity of cd is very large, so it can better restore the sound quality. And cd can realize multiple audio tracks, giving people a wonderful enjoyment.

In fact, Catherine has no special talent for music or anything, and it is difficult to distinguish subtle voice differences, so she is destined to not be able to sing and pick up girls like those protagonists.

But Catherine still knows about the love that people have for because of it.

Why is there a professional-level sound card? Why is there a home theater?

Most people want to put their ears in a state of enjoyment, rather than listening to poor quality music.

Catherine had a friend in her previous life who was a music fan. He bought a professional sound card and a high-fidelity headset worth RMB. You can't hear the separate mp3 and ape in a normal dollar headset, and it instantly becomes two different grades.

So Catherine knew that in terms of sound quality, she couldn't be the same as those cheap players.

This is just like the "future" Apple's ne4 mobile phone ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ adopts "retina" technology, fine graphics, when people take out the mobile phone, there is a sense of fashion and superiority.

Catherine is now ready to turn this "walkman" into a similar product.

The appearance design is very important, then the amount of music, and finally the difference in sound quality.

It is Catherine's established strategy for Apple to become a high-end product, and as Apple becomes more and more high-end, low-end oranges will appear in due course.

At this time, it is obviously inappropriate to call it "walkman". What is it to call it?

"Backpacker? How about this name? That's the name of this player"

Catherine said.

"Kers? Sounds good." Olsen seemed to agree.

"Hmm, let's set it down like this-kers."